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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

4. (music) A company that sells records.

   Synonym: record label

5. (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.

6. (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
7. (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.

   Synonym: lambel

8. (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

9. A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
10. 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?)

11. (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
12. 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?)

13. (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

For Wiktionary's indexes, see Wiktionary:Index

English

Etymology

From Latin index (“a discoverer, informer, spy; of things, an indicator, the forefinger, a title, superscription”), from indic? (“point out, show”); see indicate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd?ks/

Noun

index (plural indexes or indices or (obsolete, in use in the 17th century) index's)

1. An alphabetical listing of items and their location.

2. The index finger; the forefinger.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:index finger

3. A movable finger on a gauge, scale, etc.
4. (typography) A symbol resembling a pointing hand, used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph.

   Synonym: manicule

5. That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     Tastes are the Indexes of the different Qualities of Plants.

6. A sign; an indication; a token.
   • 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Misadventures of John Nicholson

     His son's empty guffaws […] struck him with pain as the indices of a weak mind.

7. (linguistics) A type of noun where the meaning of the form changes with respect to the context. E.g., 'Today's newspaper' is an indexical form since its referent will differ depending on the context. See also icon and symbol.
8. (economics) A single number calculated from an array of prices or of quantities.
9. (sciences) A number representing a property or ratio, a coefficient.
10. (mathematics) A raised suffix indicating a power.
11. (computing, especially programming and databases) An integer or other key indicating the location of data e.g. within an array, vector, database table, associative array, or hash table.
12. (computing, databases) A data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table.
13. (obsolete) A prologue indicating what follows.
    • c. 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, III, 4

      Ay me, what act, that roars so loud and thunders in the index?

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (alphabetical listing): table of contents

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “index”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Verb

index (third-person singular simple present indexes, present participle indexing, simple past and past participle indexed)

1. (transitive) To arrange an index for something, especially a long text.
2. To inventory, to take stock.
3. (chiefly economics) To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels.
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5. (linguistics, transitive) To be indexical for (some situation or state of affairs); to indicate.
6. (computing) To access a value in a data container by an index.

Derived terms

• indexer

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• nixed, xenid

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??nd?ks]

Noun

index m

1. index (alphabetical listing of items and their location)
2. (economics) index

   index spot?ebitelských cen — consumer price index

3. (computing, databases) index (a data structure that improves the performance of operations on a table)

Synonyms

• (alphabetical listing): rejst?ík

Related terms

• See dikce
• indexace
• indexový
• indexovat
• indexování
• indicie
• indikace
• indikátor
• indikovat

Further reading

• index in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• index in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch index, from Latin index.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.d?ks/
• Hyphenation: in?dex

Noun

index m (plural indexen or indices, diminutive indexje n)

1. index (list)
2. index (number or coefficient representing various relations)
3. (medicine, anatomy) index finger

   Synonym: wijsvinger

Derived terms

• brekingsindex
• prijsindex

Related terms

• indexatie
• indexeren
• indicator
• indiceren

French

Etymology

From Latin index (“pointer, indicator”), from indic? (“point out, show”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.d?ks/

Noun

index m (plural index)

1. index
2. forefinger
3. The welcome page of a web site, typically index.html, index.htm or index.php

Derived terms

• mettre à l'index

Further reading

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin index.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ind?ks]
• Hyphenation: in?dex
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

index (plural indexek)

1. (automotive) turn signal (US), indicator (UK) (each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change)

   Synonym: irányjelz?

2. pointer, hand, indicator (a needle or dial on a device)

   Synonyms: mutató, kar

3. (higher education) transcript, report card, course report (in higher education)

   Synonym: leckekönyv

   Coordinate term: (in lower education) ellen?rz?

4. index (an alphabetical listing of items and their location, usually at the end of publications)

   Synonyms: névmutató, tárgymutató, szómutató

5. ban, blacklist (a list of books that was banned)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• index in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Latin

Etymology

From indic? (“point out, indicate, show”), from in (“in, at, on; into”) + dic? (“indicate; dedicate; set apart”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?in.deks/, [??n?d??ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?in.deks/, [?in?d??ks]

Noun

index m or f (genitive indicis); third declension

1. A pointer, indicator.
2. The index finger, forefinger.

   Synonym: digitus sal?t?ris

3. (of books) An index, list, catalogue, table, summary, digest.
4. (of books) A title, superscription.
5. A sign, indication, proof, mark, token, index.
6. An informer, discoverer, director, talebearer, guide, witness, betrayer, spy.
7. (of paintings or statues) An inscription.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• index in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• index in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• index in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• index in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• index in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• index in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• index in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin index

Noun

index n (plural indexuri)

1. index

Declension

Swedish

Noun

index n

1. an index

Declension