label
- noun
- /ˈleɪbəl/
- His name is unknown, but his actions have earned him the label "The Monster. "
- use labels
- assign labels
- give a label
Go out, shed those labels, be your whole self.
- Go out, shed those labels, be your whole self.
- Yeah, yeah, my, my labels are anxiety as well.
- Often people who get this label will exaggerate.
- X is just a label, X is just a label.
- We help to strengthen the one label in your life that matters the most.
- The mother doesn't have to teach specific object labels by pointing to them.
- But I guess, Luke, without all the labels, who are you?
- We start to, you know, hold on to past labels people put on us.
- I mean, just that kind of label, we feel better.
- And you said the labels are anti thought.
- And so we don't want these extreme labels and I think often.
- I think it's scary when you have sort of a label to an illness.
- Many there are people, people with the same label have very different diseases.
Examples
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The crew placed genre labels on the spines of all the fiction books.
Academic text (2013) -
The most obvious visual element is a picture label on every book in the library.
Academic text (2013) -
So what is the label that you have given to yourself?
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"Wind" for example is the label used for the event that involves air in motion.
Academic text (2008) -
We sometimes use the words pilot or beta as labels for this type of work.
Academic text (2012) -
Preferred self-designations include labels such as the "living democracy" or "earth democracy" movement.
Academic text (2008) -
Which means that child rearing still falls under the label of women's work.
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There it was, the name written on a label in Claire's neat, steady hand: "Harvest Moon."
Fiction book (1997) -
Where does the "incrementalist" label come from, given the reach of each woman's agenda?
Academic text (2017) -
The label on the jar indicates that it contains homemade jam.
Synonyms
A word or label added to something online to describe it
A name or title used to identify something, showing its kind
A word, number and symbol that shows a person or thing
A word or short phrase that gives details about something
A name used to identify a person, place or thing
A word or phrase that describes a quality
A name people give someone for their actions or group
A person or thing that gives a name to something
A name used to identify a person, place, or thing
Compounds
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Label comes from the Latin labellum 'small tongue' and once meant a small tag that said what something was; so we now use label for a word or phrase that names or describes someone or something.