Definition of Label

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Definition of Label

Label

A tassel.

A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.

A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.

A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.

A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.

A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.

The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture. It always has a /quare form, as in the illustration.

In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.

To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.

To affix in or on a label.

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Label Quotations

Once you label me you negate me.
Soren Kierkegaard

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson

When we label anyone 'bad', we will have more trouble dealing with him than if we could have settled for a lesser label.
William Glasser

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
Dick Cavett

It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
Calvin Klein

There is a tremendous range of children with a PDD label.
Temple Grandin

Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
Barry White

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.
Taylor Caldwell

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living.
Kid Rock

Label Translations

label in Dutch is label, etiket
label in German is Kennzeichen, Kennsatz, kennzeichnen, Etikett
label in Italian is scudo
label in Latin is titulus
label in Norwegian is stemple, merkelapp, etikett
label in Portuguese is etiqueta
label in Swedish is etikett

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