Docket vs. Label — What's the Difference?

A calendar of the cases awaiting action in a court.

A label (as distinct from signage) is a piece of paper, plastic film, cloth, metal, or other material affixed to a container or product, on which is written or printed information or symbols about the product or item. Information printed directly on a container or article can also be considered labelling.

A brief entry of the court proceedings in a legal case.

An item used to identify something or someone, as a small piece of paper or cloth attached to an article to designate its origin, owner, contents, use, or destination.

The book containing such entries.

A descriptive term; an epithet.

A summary or other brief statement of the contents of a document; an abstract.

A distinctive name or trademark identifying a product or manufacturer, especially a recording company.

A list of things to be done; an agenda.

(Architecture) A molding over a door or window; a dripstone.

A label or ticket affixed to a package listing the contents or directions for assembling or operating.

(Heraldry) A figure in a field consisting of a narrow horizontal bar with several pendants.

(Law) To enter in a court calendar or in a record of court proceedings.

(Chemistry) See tracer.

To provide with a brief identifying statement.

To attach a label to

To label or ticket (a parcel).

To identify or designate with a descriptive term; describe or classify

(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.

(Chemistry) To add a tracer to (a compound).

(legal) A short entry of the proceedings of a court; the register containing them; the office containing the register.

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

(legal) A schedule of cases awaiting action in a court.

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

An agenda of things to be done.

(music) A company that sells records.

A ticket or label fixed to something, showing its contents or directions to its use.

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

(Australia) A receipt.

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

(transitive) To enter or inscribe in a docket, or list of causes for trial.

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

(transitive) To label a parcel, etc.

(obsolete) A tassel.

(transitive) To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and endorse it on the back of the paper, or to endorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize.

A small strip, especially of paper or parchment (or of some material attached to parchment to carry the seal), but also of iron, brass, land, etc.

(transitive) To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book.

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

A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.

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

A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.

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

An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.

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

A list or calendar of business matters to be acted on in any assembly.

(graphical user interface) A non-interactive control or widget displaying text, often used to describe the purpose of another control.

To make a brief abstract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers.

(transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).

To make a brief abstract of and inscribe in a book; as, judgments regularly docketed.

(ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.

To mark with a ticket; as, to docket goods.

(biochemistry) To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cell.

(law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities

(biochemistry) To add a detectable substance, either transiently or permanently, to a biological substance in order to track the presence of the label-substance combination either in situ or in vitro

A temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

A tassel.

Place on the docket for legal action;

A slip of silk, paper, parchment, etc., affixed to anything, and indicating, usually by an inscription, the contents, ownership, destination, etc.; as, the label of a bottle or a package.

Make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list

A slip of ribbon, parchment, etc., attached to a document to hold the appended seal; also, the seal.

A writing annexed by way of addition, as a codicil added to a will.

A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living.

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

The name now generally given to the projecting molding by the sides, and over the tops, of openings in mediæval architecture. It always has a square form, as in the illustration.

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

To affix a label to; to mark with a name, etc.; as, to label a bottle or a package.

To affix in or on a label.

A brief description given for purposes of identification;

Trade name of a company that produces musical recordings;

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

An identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object

Assign a label to; designate with a label;

Attach a tag or label to;

Pronounce judgment on;

Distinguish (as a compound or molecule) by introducing a labeled atom

Distinguish (an element or atom) by using a radioactive isotope or an isotope of unusual mass for tracing through chemical reactions