Synonyms for label
ˈleɪ bəlla·bel

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. labelnoun

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

   The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop.

   Synonyms:
   sign, ticket, tag

2. labelverb

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

   He's been unfairly labeled as a cheat, although he's only ever cheated once.

   Synonyms:
   category, pigeonhole

3. labelverb

   Synonyms:
   price, tag

4. labelverb

   Synonyms:
   pigeonhole, categorise, compartmentalise

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. labelnoun

   a brief description given for purposes of identification

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

   Synonyms:
   recording label

2. label, recording labelnoun

   trade name of a company that produces musical recordings

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

   Synonyms:
   recording label

3. labelnoun

   a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction

   Synonyms:
   recording label

4. labelverb

   an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object

   Synonyms:
   recording label

5. labelverb

   assign a label to; designate with a label

   "These students were labelled `learning disabled'"

   Synonyms:
   mark, tag, judge, pronounce

6. tag, label, markverb

   attach a tag or label to

   "label these bottles"

   Synonyms:
   distinguish, dog, tail, pit, go after, mark, commemorate, pock, pronounce, give chase, tick, chase, differentiate, strike out, notice, punctuate, score, brand, grade, trail, check off, cross off, stigmatize, note, strike off, mark off, judge, stigmatise, nock, denounce, tag, scar, chase after, set, tick off, track, cross out, check

7. pronounce, label, judgeverb

   pronounce judgment on

   "They labeled him unfit to work here"

   Synonyms:
   guess, pass judgment, adjudicate, enounce, gauge, mark, enunciate, articulate, estimate, say, pronounce, evaluate, try, approximate, tag, judge, sound out

8. labelverb

   distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom

   Synonyms:
   mark, tag, judge, pronounce

9. labelverb

   distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions

   Synonyms:
   mark, tag, judge, pronounce

Matched Categories

1. • Attach
   • Declare
   • Description
   • Designate
   • Distinguish
   • Radioisotope
   • Trade Name

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "label":

   tag, labels, labelling, tags, etiquette, sticker, emblem, labeling, mark, marker, labelled, brand, tab, stamp, marking, tagging, caption, placard

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. label

   Synonyms:
   Package insert, patient package leaflet

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1. Hilary McClafferty:

   In the United, States, the homeopathic products that carry the label, HPUS— Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States— are prepared with a very standardized, procedural monograph. So there is a map and regulations that ensure what’s on the label is what’s in the bottle.

2. Krishan Patel:

   The adult LEMS community is thrilled and trying to move forward in getting the new drug through off-label, we have asked my mom's doctor to prescribe the drug as an off-label drug, and then we will need to go through the insurance process.

3. Jerry Rubin:

   By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

4. Huey Newton:

   Most of my young life I was a student. And I know sociologically that words stigmatize people, we felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-life animal in order to identify the police. And it worked.

5. Jill Ralston:

   There’s no label, and the labels have been peeled, but you can tell there had been a label on them, they’re dishwasher clean, dry inside and out, just a hint of A. 1. still lingering in the bottle.