Meaning

noun a brief description given for purposes of identification

noun trade name of a company that produces musical recordings

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

originFrom Middle English label (“narrow band, strip of cloth”), from Old French label, lambel (Modern French lambeau), from Frankish *lappā (“torn piece of cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *lappǭ, *lappô (“cloth stuff, rag, scraps, flap, dewlap, lobe, rabbit ear”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“blade”). Cognate with Old High German lappa (“rag, piece of cloth”), Old English læppa (“skirt, flap of a…

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