The Collaborative International Dictionary
Label \La"bel\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Labeled (l[=a]"b[e^]ld) or Labelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Labeling or Labelling.]
To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.
To affix in or on a label. [R.]
Wiktionary
1 Having a label, tagged. 2 Defined or described. alt. 1 Having a label, tagged. 2 Defined or described. v
(context British Canada English) (en-past of: label)
WordNet
n. a brief description given for purposes of identification; "the label Modern is applied to many different kinds of architecture"
trade name of a company that produces musical recordings; "the artists and repertoire department of a recording label is responsible for finding new talent" [syn: recording label]
a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object
v. assign a label to; designate with a label; "These students were labelled `learning disabled'"
attach a tag or label to; "label these bottles" [syn: tag, mark]
pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here" [syn: pronounce, judge]
distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom
distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions
See label
Usage examples of "labelled".
For a while there was some robust debating, the Castellans being pilloried as dictatorial and even war-mongering, while the Ploughers were labelled as naive appeasers and cowards and quite indifferent to the fate of the people who worked in the forestry trade.
The rest of the ingredients were in the pantry, in neatly labelled pots and sacks: the same roots and barks used in cookery, most of them.
Protestant correctness, one could be labelled fetishistic if he used sacred objects in his worship of a non-Christian God.
Master Polydore Vigil, and his wife, Dame Dreamsweet, and old Mat Pyepowders and his preposterous, chattering dame, and the Peregrine Laquers and the Goceline Flacks and the Hyacinth Baldbreeches -- in fact, all the cream of the society of Lud-in-the-Mist, and each of them labelled with his or her appropriate joke.
He was labelled an old rightist whose motive was to corrupt the communist system and eventually overthrow it.
They discussed who the key minister in the ministry was and they decided on Lin Muhan, a well-known intellect in China and a labelled rightist who had been through some horrifying times during the Cultural Revolution.
The villains and villainesses were all neatly labelled and you were sure of your ground.
The windows of the house stood wide, and showed rooms within carpetless, matless, swept if not garnished, with other packing-cases stacked about and labelled.
Antoine de la Mery had no objection to a posterity that labelled him clever.
The isotopes arc pumped up through lead-shielded pipes to a radiochemistry laboratory in which complex syntheses are done in automated equipment designed to produce pure labelled organic chemicals from the fast-decaying isotopes within a few moments of arrival.
I reached a set of holds and ledges whose markers the mask display labelled with a restpoint symbol, I looked down to see how Brasil and Tres were doing, and ruined it all.
Personal Correspondence, Household Accounts, Department Accounts, Tax all that sort of thing seemed normal and as it should be, but it was a different story as soon as I got into files labelled with Roman numerals and small groups of numbers, and three boldly labelled AFI1, 2, and 3.
From metal cabinets he removed clear plastic boxes containing mounted and labelled bees, which he compared with the specimen, occasionally taking the unidentified bee to the window for a better look.
Misses Ponsonby speedily came to a conclusion about Catharine, and she was forthwith labelled as a young lady of natural ability, whose education had been neglected, a type perfectly familiar, recurring every quarter, and one with which they were perfectly well able to deal.
Now I shall be labelled a hoyden and, if it had not been for Jack Chiltern, it would be much worse.