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unlabeled

unlabeled

1 4.4
Not having a label or tag
  • adjective
  • /ʌnˈleɪbld/
  • US
translation icon : sin etiqueta
  • Consumer avoidance of unlabeled products would make it more expensive for producers to continue causing environmental damage.
  • an unlabeled bottle
  • unlabeled food
  • an unlabeled button

Examples

  • The initial investigation by an EPA inspector immediately raised concerns when unlabeled barrels, corroded drums, and stained soil were found at the site.

    Academic text (1998)
  • I looped through the Flash client's children until I came to some unlabeled buttons.

    Blog text (8)
  • The research team selected an unlabeled map as a prompt for this part of the interview.

    Academic text (1996)
  • All of the unlabeled arrows represent current flow.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The girl handed Tomas a glass and an unlabeled bottle of clear liquid.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Now hungry, apparently, he took an unlabeled glass jar from the refrigerator and began to feed hurriedly on its contents.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • When he reached for one of the unlabeled ingredients that he kept on a high shelf, he looked as sly as a magician.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • The well-intentioned provider may place the specimen in a separate unlabeled container during the procedure, which is inadvertently discarded.

    Blog text (34)
  • Clustering methods are unsupervised learning tasks with the purpose of identifying structures in an unlabeled dataset by organizing it into homogeneous groups or clusters.

    Academic text (2017)
  • The girl handed Tomas a glass and an unlabeled bottle of clear liquid.

Synonyms

unmarked
vsunlabeled
43 4.3

Having no mark or label to show who it belongs to

is narrower, referring specifically to missing small identifying items rather than all features
untagged
vsunlabeled
1 4.2

Without a label or identifying mark attached

is used more generally for lacking any identifier rather than only attached ones

Antonyms

1.0

With a small tag that shows what it contains or who owns it

How Labeled

labeled
1.0
tagged
1 2.1
unlabeled
  • US
1 4.4

Surface Forms

unlabeled positive

Morphology

unlabeled = labeled (transparent) = un + label + ed

The prefix 'un-' clearly negates the meaning of 'labeled', making the meaning of 'unlabeled' straightforward.

Etymology

Unlabeled is made of un- meaning 'not' and label, a small tag used to name things. So unlabeled means 'not marked or named'.