label
/ˈleɪ.bəl/ noun B2- A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached. · We laughed at her because the label was still on her new sweater.· The label says this silk scarf should not be washed in the washing machine.
- A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group. · Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster".
- A company that sells records. · The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape.
- A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration. · Storage devices can be given by label or ID.
- A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
- A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
- A small strip, especially of paper or parchment (or of some material attached to parchment to carry the seal), but also of iron, brass, land, etc.
- A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
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Here were not, as in other tombs, ignoble drawers, one above another, where thrift bestows its dead and labels them like specimens in a museum; all that was visible within the bronze gates was a gloomy-looking room, separated by a wall from the vault itself.
There was no label this time with the words “DRINK ME,” but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips.
Whenever you pay more than 10 cents a cake for soap you buy bad perfumes and labels.
The sum is ample for a well-considered meal, a bottle bearing a respectable label, commensurate tips, a smoke, cab fare and the ordinary etceteras.
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