Noun

(en noun)

A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.

We laughed at her because the label was still on her new sweater.

The label says this silk scarf should not be washed in the washing machine.

Although the label priced this poster at three pounds, I got it for two.

A name given to something or someone to categorise them as part of a particular social group.

Ever since he started going to the rock club, he's been given the label "waster".

A company that sells records.

The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape.

(computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.

Storage devices can be given by label or ID.

(computing) A named place in source code that can be jumped to using a GOTO or equivalent construct.

(heraldiccharge) A charge resembling the strap crossing the horse’s chest from which pendants are hung.

(obsolete) A tassel.

(Huloet)

(Fuller)

A piece of writing added to something, such as a codicil appended to a will.

A brass rule with sights, formerly used with a circumferentor to take altitudes.

(Knight)

(architecture) The projecting moulding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediaeval architecture.

In mediaeval art, the representation of a band or scroll containing an inscription.

(Fairholt)

Noun

The result or outcome of a cause. See below.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect , and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […]  The bed was the most extravagant piece.  Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}

Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.

* J. C. Shairp

patchwork introduced for oratorical effect

* Washington Irving

The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.

(filmology) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")

(sound engineering) An alteration in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.

(sound engineering) A device for producing an alteration in sound produced by an instrument.

Execution; performance; realization; operation.

* Shakespeare

That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.

# (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.

A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.

(usually plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.

Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to .

* Bible, Chron. xxxiv. 22

They spake to her to that effect .

(obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.

* Denham

no other in effect than what it seems

(obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.

* Shakespeare

All the large effects / That troop with majesty.