trade name of a company that produces musical recordings; "the artists and repertoire department of a recording label is responsible for finding new talent"
a brief description given for purposes of identification; "the label Modern is applied to many different kinds of architecture"
an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object
a radioactive isotope that is used in a compound in order to trace the mechanism of a chemical reaction
distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions
distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom
assign a label to; designate with a label; "These students were labelled `learning disabled'"
a group of animals of the same type living together
(microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government
a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country
one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States
a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim"
a descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'"
the words of something written; "there were more than a thousand words of text"; "they handed out the printed text of the mayor's speech"; "he wants to reconstruct the original text"
the main body of a written work (as distinct from illustrations or footnotes etc.); "pictures made the text easier to understand"
a passage from the Bible that is used as the subject of a sermon; "the preacher chose a text from Psalms to introduce his sermon"