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Adjective: labeled  ley-buld
Usage: US (elsewhere: labelled)
  1. Bearing or marked with a label or tag
    "properly labeled luggage";
    - labelled [Brit, Cdn], tagged
Verb: label (labelled,labelling, or [US] labeled,labeling)  ley-bul
  1. Assign a label to; designate with a label
     
  2. Attach a tag or label to
    "label these bottles";
    - tag, mark
     
  3. Officially declare a judgment on someone
    "They labeled him unfit to work here";
    - pronounce, judge
     
  4. Distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom
     
  5. Distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions

Type of: adjudge, attach, declare, denominate, designate, differentiate, distinguish, hold, secern [rare], secernate, separate, severalise [Brit], severalize, tell, tell apart

Encyclopedia: Label