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What does "label" mean?

Label: A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.
  2. 3.A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.
  3. 4.(Her.) A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.
  4. 5.A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes. Knight.
  5. 6.(Gothic Arch.) The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediæval architecture. It always has a Arch. Pub. Soc.
  6. 7.In mediæval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription. Fairholt.
  7. 8.To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.
  8. 9.To affix in or on a label. [R.]

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