Label

What “Label” means

Noun

1. A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
2. A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
3. A company that sells records.
4. A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
5. A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.

Verb

1. To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
2. To give (a label) to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
3. 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.
4. 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

Where the word comes from

From Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *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.

Business name ideas with “Label”

Industries where “Label” fits

We suggest this word for 4 business types and industries, including:

• Clothing Brand
• Music Label
• Record Production and Distribution
• Women’s, Girls’, and Infants’ Cut and Sew Apparel Manufacturing