label
 la·bel (lāʹbəl)n.
1. An item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination.
2. A descriptive term; an epithet.
3. A distinctive name or trademark identifying a product or manufacturer, especially a recording company.
4. Architecture. A molding over a door or window; a dripstone.
5. Heraldry. A figure in a field consisting of a narrow horizontal bar with several pendants.
6. Chemistry. See tracer.tr.v. la·beled, or la·belled la·bel·ing, or la·bel·ling la·bels or la·bels
1. To attach a label to.
2. To identify or designate with a label; describe or classify:
labeled them Yuppies.
See Synonyms at mark1.
3. Chemistry. To add a tracer to (a compound). [Middle English, ornamental strip of cloth, from Old French, probably of Germanic origin.] laʹbel·er or laʹbel·ler n.
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