label
verb/ˈleɪbl/
/ˈleɪbl/
[often passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they label | /ˈleɪbl/ /ˈleɪbl/ |
| he / she / it labels | /ˈleɪblz/ /ˈleɪblz/ |
| past simple labelled | /ˈleɪbld/ /ˈleɪbld/ |
| past participle labelled | /ˈleɪbld/ /ˈleɪbld/ |
| (US English) past simple labeled | /ˈleɪbld/ /ˈleɪbld/ |
| (US English) past participle labeled | /ˈleɪbld/ /ˈleɪbld/ |
| -ing form labelling | /ˈleɪblɪŋ/ /ˈleɪblɪŋ/ |
| (US English) -ing form labeling | /ˈleɪblɪŋ/ /ˈleɪblɪŋ/ |
- to fix a label on something or write information on something
- label something Make sure that your luggage is clearly labelled.
- label something with something We carefully labelled each item with the contents and the date.
- label something + adj. The file was labelled ‘Private’.
Extra Examples- Some of the plants were wrongly labelled.
- The samples were all labelled with a date and place of origin.
- a pile of small plastic bags, each carefully labelled
- Every box needs to be labelled before it goes into storage.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- appropriately
- correctly
- properly
- …
- with
- to describe somebody/something in a particular way, especially unfairly
- label somebody/something (as) something He was labelled (as) a traitor by his former colleagues.
- label somebody/something + adj. It is unfair to label a small baby naughty.
Extra Examples- She had automatically labelled the boys as troublemakers.
- He was falsely labelled a liar.
- She was wrongly labelled a thief.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- falsely
- automatically
- as
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Word OriginMiddle English (denoting a narrow strip): from Old French, ‘ribbon’.
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