label

A small piece of paper or other material attached to something, giving information about it.

• Read the label on the bottle.
• The labels show the price.
• She put a name label on her bag.

Similar words: tag, sticker

Common phrases: read the label, price label, label on something

A brand or company that sells clothes or produces and sells music.

• She buys clothes from that label.
• The band signed with a small record label.
• Several fashion labels showed their new collections.

Similar words: brand, record company

Common phrases: record label, fashion label, independent label

A name used to describe someone or something as belonging to a particular group.

• He dislikes the label of genius.
• These labels can make people feel excluded.
• She rejected the label that others gave her.

Similar words: description, designation, category

Common phrases: unfair label, attach a label, reject a label

A name chosen to identify a numbered item in a computer system.

• The disk has the label BACKUP.
• You can find the device by its label.
• Each numbered entry has a user-defined label.

Similar words: alias, identifier

Common phrases: volume label, device label, assign a label

To write information on something or attach a small sign to it.

• Please label every box.
• She labelled the jars with their contents.
• Have you labeled your luggage?

How to use it: label something with something (Label each bag with your name.)

Similar words: tag, mark

Common phrases: label a box, label something clearly, label with something, label a bottle

To describe someone or something as a particular type, often unfairly.

• Do not label her lazy.
• Critics labelled the film a failure.
• He was labeled as a troublemaker at school.

How to use it: label someone/something as something (The report labelled the plan as dangerous.); label someone/something + adjective (They labelled him lazy.)

Similar words: classify, categorize, brand

Common phrases: label someone lazy, label as something, label someone dangerous