Word Finder - labels

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A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.

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Although the label priced this poster at three pounds, I got it for two.

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• sign
• tag
• ticket

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A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.

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Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster".

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• category
• pigeonhole

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A company that sells records.

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The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape.

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• record label

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A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.

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Storage devices can be given by label or ID.

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A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.

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A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.

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• lambel

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A tassel.

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A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.

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A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.

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The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.

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In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.

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A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.

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To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).

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The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop.

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(ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.

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He's been unfairly labeled as a cheat, although he's only ever cheated once.

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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.

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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

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Permanent labels may also be made from sheet lead, the names being punched in by means of steel type.

For stove and greenhouse plants, orchids, ferns, &c., labels made of xylonite, zinc and other materials are also used.

I'm just tired of the labels we slap on people who think independent of the 'in' crowd.

In historic events the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself.

If money isn't an object, then look for designer labels.

Turn a standard chocolate or candy bar into a Care Bare Favor by ordering custom Care Bear labels from a stores such as Treasured Memories, or by creating your own labels.

These photo quality cd labels allows for ultra fine inkjet and laser printing.

Applying tamper evident labels around the lid profile of pharmaceutical cartons.

Currently the labels of many triazole based fungicide products claim control of Septoria tritici.

The problem with the second solution is that at least Mosaic 's handling of documents with labels seems unnatural to me.

Be sure to remove the labels before you begin.

Search for sales that feature not only basic pictures but also shots of the designer labels to ensure you really are purchasing the real deal.

While you might be tempted to choose more advanced gifts, toys have age recommendation labels for a reason.

Read the labels on boys' clothes before you buy.

Read the labels or packaging of baby clothes before you buy them.

Pay close attention to what the labels on the mattress say in regard to the mattress's construction.

Those yellow Energy Labels help you to determine your operating costs over the course of a year.

This kit will include a big board indicating the names of teams in your league and labels of NFL players.

This is where it pays to read the labels.

No fancy labels or catchy words are needed to eat healthy.

Read food labels for the type of fat contained in a product and avoid those which contain harmful fats.

The retained business will concentrate on the manufacture of dairy desserts under retailer labels and the Mars brand.

Does the desire to wear designer labels indicate a dissatisfaction with personal identity, a loss of personal identity or something else?

Labels blame the precipitous falloff on piracy and online file-sharing, while some consumers point to lousy music offerings.

Levels of total folate were generally in good agreement with the average levels given on the labels.

The exhibits and labels show wit, creativity and scholarship, and include folklore and myths about plants, as well as scientific facts.

Dirk has been residing in Berlin for the last two years where he works for the labels monika enterprise and international dj gigolos.

The slide labels, even handwritten ones, scan well so the scanner allows both text and image compilation of slides in one go.

It amazes me when artists show incredulity when their labels drop them.

All the good singers get stolen by pop music and major labels; luckily we¹ve managed to keep Dani on our side.

Do you despair at the lack of true indie labels in the UK at the moment?

Later we stand together in front of a battered leather suitcase, filled with small luggage labels.

Laminated onto card one labels see stickers lampshade covers library pack Turn your growing book collection into your own Library.

In addition to this, the ncurses imple- mentation supports a mode where it simulates 12 labels of up to five characters each.

Thus the Blounts had an unusual opportunity to avoid the labels ' recusant ' and ' church papist ', if they so wished.

The hospital took five phials of type A+ blood marked with brightly colored labels.

Drawers are made of high impact polystyrene plastic with moulded-in label holders and labels.

Labels can be referenced within a document using a ref command.

Bush told a reporter, " Labels are for cans.

The little labels usually recorded primitive rockabilly out of necessity, and consequently usually cut what are now considered classics in the style.

Diagnostic labels can affect a child's self-image and his or her relationships in school and at home.

Marxism and Leninism for them are always a given sophistry, a sealed bible, which gives ready-made solutions and labels for every problem.

Save wooden ice cream spatulas, lolly sticks or plastic knives to use as garden labels.

But now, you can produce stunning, full-colour labels for a fraction of the cost of other color label printers.

Using electrostatic deflexion to divert and collect cells with one or more fluorescent labels enables defined subpopulations to be sorted.

The set contains the patterns, the extended substructures are possible occurrences, extended with labels that mark their positions in the original object.

Choose from tapes, wire markers, heatshrink tubing & labels.

I got it pressed really cheaply, 1,500 of them, black labels with sleeves that cost tuppence each.

The problem with the second solution is that at least Mosaic's handling of documents with labels seems unnatural to me.