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

(en noun)

The quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , passage=United were value for their win and Rooney could have had a hat-trick before half-time, with Paul Scholes also striking the post in the second half.}}

The degree of importance given to something.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)

, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}

The amount (of money or goods or services) that is considered to be a fair equivalent for something else.

* M'Culloch

An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value .

* Dryden

His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}

(music) The relative duration of a musical note.

(arts) The relative darkness or lightness of a color in (a specific area of) a painting etc.

* Joe Hing Lowe

I establish the colors and principal values by organizing the painting into three values--dark, mediumand light.

Numerical quantity measured or assigned or computed.

Precise meaning; import.

the value''' of a word; the '''value of a legal instrument

(Mitford)

(obsolete) Esteem; regard.

(Dryden)

* Bishop Burnet

My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great.

(obsolete) valour; also spelled valew

(Spenser)