different between label vs marker

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

English

Etymology

From mark +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??(?)k?(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(r)k?(r)

Noun

marker (plural markers)

1. An object used to mark a location.
2. Someone or something that marks.
   1. One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
   2. A counter used in card games and other games.
   3. The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
   4. An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.
   5. (Britain) A person who assesses the standard of a student in a test or examination.
3. A real or virtual objective, something to be aimed for.
   • 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:

     Pellegrini insisted this was a game City had to win - this they did and with the sort of performance that put down a marker for how the Chilean wants his team to play.

4. A felt-tipped pen.

   Synonym: marker pen

5. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by this type of pen.

6. (US, slang) A signed note of a debt to be paid.
7. (US, slang, figuratively) A nonmonetary debt owed to someone, especially in return for a favor.

   We may not be able to do this alone. Maybe it’s time to call in some of our markers.

8. (paintball) A device that fires a paintball.
9. (sports)
   1. A defending player who stays close to an opponent in order to mark them.
   2. (dated) A player employed by a private club and available to compete against members.
      • 1903 Eustace Miles Racquets, tennis, and squash p.39 (New York: Appleton & Co.)

        The Court itself, with its rent, the wages of the Marker and the tips to the Marker, the rackets and the balls, the baths and the flannels and the washing of the flannels, do much to account for the costliness of play.

      • 1904 "Squash and Racquets" in Frederick George Aflalo ed. The sportsman's book for India p.519 (London: Horace Marshall & Son)

        Some of the native markers attain to great skill, and the brilliant success in London of " Jamsetjee " the Bombay professional affords sufficient testimony to their capabilities.

      • 1904 "A Foreign Resident" (George Washburn Smalley and Thomas Hay Sweet Escott) "Where Wit, Wealth and Empire Meet" Society in the new reign p.76 (London: T Fisher Unwin)

        Of his victories over the curate at this game he is as proud as are others of his sex and cloth, not being old maids, of their mastery of "side" at billiards, and of an occasional victory over the club marker at evens.
10. (biology) A gene or DNA sequence with a known location on a chromosome that can be used to identify individuals or species.
    • 2012, N Manikanda Boopathi, Genetic Mapping and Marker Assisted Selection: Basics, Practice and Benefits, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 88:

      Markers are mapped relative to one another on chromosomes and used as signposts against which to map genes of interest that are linked with marker. This process of finding the linked markers/genes is referred to as grouping.

11. (biology, medicine) A substance used as a diagnostic indicator or for other analysis; a biomarker.
12. (competition law) A recognition given by a competition authority that a company is the first to approach it to reveal the existence of a cartel, as a prelude to a formal application for leniency for the company.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

marker (third-person singular simple present markers, present participle markering, simple past and past participle markered)

1. To mark or write on (something) using a marker

References

• “marker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Kramer, re-mark, remark

Danish

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mark?r/, [?m?????]

Noun

marker c

1. indefinite plural of mark

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /marke??r/, [m??k?e???]

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

marker m

marker m or f

1. indefinite plural of mark (Etymologies 1 & 2)

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

marker f

1. indefinite plural of mark (Etymology 2)

Verb

marker or markér

1. imperative of markere

Polish

Etymology

From English marker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mar.k?r/

Noun

marker m inan

1. marker pen, sharpie
2. (biology) marker (gene or DNA sequence with a known location)
3. (paintball) device that fires a paintball

Declension

Further reading

• marker in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• marker in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Noun

marker

1. indefinite plural of mark

Anagrams

• kamrer