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label

English

Alternative forms

  • labell (non-standard)

Etymology

From Middle English label (narrow band, strip of cloth), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lapp? (torn piece of cloth), from Proto-Germanic *lapp?, *lappô (cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (blade). Cognate with Old High German lappa (rag, piece of cloth), Old English læppa (skirt, flap of a garment). More at lap.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /?le?b?l/
  • Rhymes: -e?b?l

Noun

label (plural labels)

  1. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
    Synonyms: sign, tag, ticket
  2. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
    Synonyms: category, pigeonhole
  3. (music) A company that sells records.
    Synonym: record label
  4. (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
  5. (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
  6. (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
    Synonym: lambel
  7. (obsolete) A tassel.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Huloet to this entry?)
    • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England
      the arms or escutcheon of France , hanging by a label on an oak
  8. A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
  9. A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
  10. (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
  11. In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
  12. (graphical user interface) A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.

Derived terms

  • designer label
  • record label

Descendants

Translations

Verb

label (third-person singular simple present labels, present participle (UK) labelling or (US) labeling, simple past and past participle (UK) labelled or (US) labeled)

  1. (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
    The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop.
  2. (ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
    He's been unfairly labeled as a cheat, although he's only ever cheated once.
  3. (biochemistry) To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cell.
  4. (biochemistry) To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance in order to track the presence of the label-substance combination either in situ or in vitro
    • 2015, "Protein binder woes" (editorial), Nature Methods, 12(5) (May): 373.
      They may be used to label and image a protein within tissue, to isolate cells on the basis of marker expression, or to physically capture a protein from a complex biological mixture....

Synonyms

  • (put a ticket or sign on): tag, price
  • (give a label to in order to categorise): categorise, compartmentalise, peg, pigeonhole; see also Thesaurus:classify

Translations

References

  • label in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • label in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • (projecting moulding in architecture): Dictionary of Architecture (Architectural Publication Society of London)

Anagrams

  • Abell, Beall, Bella, be-all

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English label.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?le?b?l/

Noun

label n (plural labels, diminutive labeltje n)

  1. quality label
    Max Havelaar is het bekendste fair-tradelabel.
    Max Havelaar is the most well-known fair-trade label.
  2. music label

Anagrams

  • balle

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English label, itself from Old French label, lambel (fringe, strip), 1899.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /la.b?l/

Noun

label m (plural labels)

  1. quality label
  2. (music) record label

Derived terms

  • labelliser

Further reading

  • “label” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • balle

Old French

Alternative forms

  • lambeau
  • lambel

Noun

label m (oblique plural labeaus or labeax or labiaus or labiax or labels, nominative singular labeaus or labeax or labiaus or labiax or labels, nominative plural label)

  1. strip of fabric
  2. badge; insignia
    Les armes son pere a label portoit
    His weapons bore the insignia of his father

Descendants

  • ? English: label
    • ? French: label
  • French: lambeau

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English label.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?l?j.b?l/

Noun

label m inan

  1. music label

Declension

Synonyms

  • wytwórnia
  • wytwórnia p?ytowa

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impress

English

Etymology

From Middle English impressen, from Latin impressus, perfect passive participle of imprimere (to press into or upon, stick, stamp, or dig into), from in (in, upon) + premere (to press).

Pronunciation

  • (verb) enPR: ?mpr?s?, IPA(key): /?m?p??s/
    Rhymes: -?s
  • (noun) enPR: ?m?pr?s, IPA(key): /??mp??s/
  • Hyphenation: im?press

Verb

impress (third-person singular simple present impresses, present participle impressing, simple past and past participle impressed)

  1. (transitive) To affect (someone) strongly and often favourably.
  2. (intransitive) To make an impression, to be impressive.
  3. (transitive) To produce a vivid impression of (something).
  4. (transitive) To mark or stamp (something) using pressure.
  5. To produce (a mark, stamp, image, etc.); to imprint (a mark or figure upon something).
  6. (figuratively) To fix deeply in the mind; to present forcibly to the attention, etc.; to imprint; to inculcate.
    • impress the motives and methods of persuasion upon our own hearts, till we feel the force and power of them.
  7. (transitive) To compel (someone) to serve in a military force.
  8. (transitive) To seize or confiscate (property) by force.
    • the second £5,000 imprest for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners

Synonyms

  • (transitive: affect strongly and often favourably): make an impression on
  • (intransitive: make an impression, be impressive): cut a figure
  • (produce a vivid impression of):
  • (mark or stamp (something) using pressure): imprint, print, stamp
  • (compel (someone) to serve in a military force):: pressgang
  • (seize or confiscate (property) by force):: confiscate, impound, seize, sequester

Translations

Noun

impress (plural impresses)

  1. The act of impressing.
  2. An impression; an impressed image or copy of something.
    • 1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Norton 2005, p. 1330:
      We know that you were pressed for money, that you took an impress of the keys which your brother held []
  3. A stamp or seal used to make an impression.
  4. An impression on the mind, imagination etc.
    • 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 187:
      Such admonitions, in the English of the Authorized Version, left an indelible impress on imaginations nurtured on the Bible []
  5. Characteristic; mark of distinction; stamp.
    • we have God surveying the works of the creation, and leaving this general impress or character upon them
  6. A heraldic device; an impresa.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cussans to this entry?)
  7. The act of impressing, or taking by force for the public service; compulsion to serve; also, that which is impressed.

Translations

Derived terms

  • impressed
  • impression
  • impressive
  • impressively

Further reading

  • impress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • impress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • impress at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • Persism, mispers, permiss, premiss, simpers

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