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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)
- A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
- Synonyms: sign, tag, ticket
- A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
- Synonyms: category, pigeonhole
- (music) A company that sells records.
- Synonym: record label
- (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
- (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
- (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
- Synonym: lambel
- (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
- A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
- 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?)
- (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
- 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?)
- (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)
- (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
- The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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....
- 2015, "Protein binder woes" (editorial), Nature Methods, 12(5) (May): 373.
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)
- quality label
- Max Havelaar is het bekendste fair-tradelabel.
- Max Havelaar is the most well-known fair-trade label.
- Max Havelaar is het bekendste fair-tradelabel.
- 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)
- quality label
- (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)
- strip of fabric
- badge; insignia
- Les armes son pere a label portoit
- His weapons bore the insignia of his father
- Les armes son pere a label portoit
Descendants
- ? English: label
- ? French: label
- French: lambeau
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English label.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?j.b?l/
Noun
label m inan
- music label
Declension
Synonyms
- wytwórnia
- wytwórnia p?ytowa
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sing
English
Etymology
From Middle English singen, from Old English singan, from Proto-West Germanic *singwan, from Proto-Germanic *singwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *seng??-. Cognate with German singen (“to sing”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: s?ng, IPA(key): /s??/
- Rhymes: -??
Verb
sing (third-person singular simple present sings, present participle singing, simple past sang, past participle sung or (archaic) sungen)
- (intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice.
- (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization.
- (transitive) To soothe with singing.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of birds, to vocalise:
- (ornithology) To produce a 'song', for the purposes of defending a breeding territory or to attract a mate.
- (literary) To produce any type of melodious vocalisation.
- (intransitive, slang) To confess under interrogation.
- (intransitive) To make a small, shrill sound.
- To relate in verse; to celebrate in poetry.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- Bid her […] sing / Of human hope by cross event destroyed.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- (intransitive) To display fine qualities; to stand out as excellent.
- (ergative) To be capable of being sung; to produce a certain effect by being sung.
- 1875, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 118, page 685)
- No song sings well unless it is open-vowelled, and has the rhythmic stress on the vowels. Tennyson's songs, for instance, are not generally adapted to music.
- 1875, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (volume 118, page 685)
Synonyms
- (confess under interrogation): See also Thesaurus:confess and Thesaurus:rat out
Derived terms
Related terms
- song
Translations
Noun
sing (plural sings)
- The act, or event, of singing songs.
- 2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, page 198:
- Some of the young folks asked Mrs. Long could they have a sing at her home that Sunday afternoon; she readily agreed, telling them to come early, bring their songbooks, and have a good sing.
- 2002, Martha Mizell Puckett, Hoyle B. Puckett, Memories of a Georgia Teacher: Fifty Years in the Classroom, page 198:
Derived terms
- singsong
See also
- singe
Anagrams
- IGNs, Ings, NGIs, gins, ings, nigs, sign, snig
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch zingen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??/
Verb
sing (present sing, present participle singende, past participle gesing)
- to sing
Derived terms
- gesonge (verbal adjective)
German
Pronunciation
Verb
sing
- singular imperative of singen
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from German. First attested in 1368.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??i??]
- Rhymes: -i??
Noun
sing (plural singek)
- (archaic) cubit (a unit of linear measure, no longer in use, originally equal to the length of the forearm)
Declension
Derived terms
- singcsont
References
Further reading
- sing 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
Iu Mien
Etymology
From Chinese ? (MC ?i??).
Noun
sing
- sound
Zou
Etymology 1
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thii?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kja?. Cognates include Burmese ????? (hkyang:) and Chinese ? (ji?ng).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si???/
Noun
síng
- ginger
Etymology 2
From Proto-Kuki-Chin *thi?, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *si?. Cognates include Burmese ??? (sac) and Chinese ? (x?n).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si???/
Noun
síng
- tree
References
- Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 45
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