label

label is a 5-letter English word with 19 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A tassel. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 10 · 19 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A tassel.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.
4. noun. A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.
5. noun. 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.
6. noun. A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with a circumferentor, to take altitudes.
7. noun. The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture. It always has a /quare form, as in the illustration.
8. noun. In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.
9. transitive verb. To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.
10. transitive verb. To affix in or on a label.
11. noun. trade name of a company that produces musical recordings

    "the artists and repertoire department of a recording label is responsible for finding new talent"

12. noun. a brief description given for purposes of identification

    "the label Modern is applied to many different kinds of architecture"

13. noun. an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object
14. noun. a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
15. verb. distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions
16. verb. distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom
17. verb. pronounce judgment on

    "They labeled him unfit to work here"

    Synonyms: judge, pronounce

18. verb. assign a label to; designate with a label

    "These students were labelled `learning disabled'"

19. verb. attach a tag or label to

    "label these bottles"

    Synonyms: mark, tag

Synonyms

judge, pronounce, mark, tag

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in label:

bella

Common word forms

labels, labeled, labeler, labeling, labelled, labeller, labelling

Words from these letters

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