Usually means: Identifier attached to objects, concepts.
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We found 50 dictionaries that define the word label:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. label: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. label: Merriam-Webster
  3. label, label: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. label: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. label: Collins English Dictionary
  6. label: Vocabulary.com
  7. Label, label: Wordnik
  8. label: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. label: Wiktionary
  10. label: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. label: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. label: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. label: Dictionary.com
  14. label: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. label: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Label (Mac OS), Label (command), Label (computer science), Label (control), Label (disambiguation), Label (heraldry), Label (programming), Label (programming language), Label (record label), Label (sociology), Label: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Label: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. label: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. label: Rhymezone
  20. label, label (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. label: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. label: FreeDictionary.org
  23. label: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. label: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. label: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. label: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. label: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. label: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. label: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. label: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. label: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. label: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. label: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. label: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See labelable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.
noun:  A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.
noun:  (music) A company that sells records.
noun:  (computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
noun:  (computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.
noun:  (heraldry) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.
noun:  (obsolete) A tassel.
noun:  A small strip, especially of paper or parchment (or of some material attached to parchment to carry the seal), but also of iron, brass, land, etc.
noun:  A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.
noun:  (historical) A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.
noun:  (architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.
noun:  In mediaeval and later art, a representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
noun:  (graphical user interface) A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.
verb:  (transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
verb:  (ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
verb:  (biochemistry) 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.
verb:  (biochemistry) 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
noun:  a language spoken in Papua New Guinea

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