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

• Read what's on the label.

  Tatoeba · _undertoad · CC BY 2.0 FR

• Tom read the label on the bottle.

  Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

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

A company that sells recordsrare

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

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

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

A tasselrare

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, etcrare

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

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

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

• I told Tom to label all the boxes.

  Tatoeba · CK · CC BY 2.0 FR

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

To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cellrare