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Label vs. Badge — What's the Difference?

Label vs. Badge — What's the Difference?

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Label

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.

Badge

A badge is a device or accessory, often containing the insignia of an organization, which is presented or displayed to indicate some feat of service, a special accomplishment, a symbol of authority granted by taking an oath (e.g., police and fire), a sign of legitimate employment or student status, or as a simple means of identification. They are also used in advertising, publicity, and for branding purposes.

Label

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.

Badge

A device or emblem worn as an insignia of rank, office, or membership in an organization.

Label

A descriptive term; an epithet.
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Badge

An emblem given as an award or honor.

Label

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

Badge

A characteristic mark or indicative trait
“Indifference to what others think is ... the badge of the aristocrat” (Elspeth Huxley).

Label

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

Badge

A distinctive mark, token, sign, emblem or cognizance, worn on one's clothing, as an insignia of some rank, or of the membership of an organization.
The badge of a society; the badge of a policeman

Label

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

Badge

A small nameplate, identifying the wearer, and often giving additional information.

Label

(Chemistry) See tracer.

Badge

A card, sometimes with a barcode or magnetic strip, granting access to a certain area.

Label

To attach a label to
Labeled the jars before storing them.

Badge

Something characteristic; a mark; a token.

Label

To identify or designate with a descriptive term; describe or classify
"He missed two crucial penalty kicks ... and was labeled a loser by the previously loyal British press" (Phil Ball).

Badge

A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.

Label

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

Badge

(nautical) A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

Label

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.

Badge

(heraldry) A distinctive mark worn by servants, retainers, and followers of royalty or nobility, who, being beneath the rank of gentlemen, have no right to armorial bearings.

Label

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".

Badge

(GUI) A small overlay on an icon that shows additional information about that item, such as the number of new alerts or messages.

Label

(music) A company that sells records.
The label signed the band after hearing a demo tape.

Badge

An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.
When you have checked in to the site from ten different cities, you unlock the Traveller badge.

Label

(computing) A user-defined alias for a numerical designation, the reverse of an enumeration.
Storage devices can be given by label or ID.

Badge

(slang) A police officer.
That's why every badge back home wanted to nail him.

Label

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

Badge

(transitive) To mark or distinguish with a badge.
The television was badged as 'GE', but wasn't made by them.

Label

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

Badge

(transitive) To show a badge to.
He calmed down a lot when the policeman badged him.

Label

(obsolete) A tassel.

Badge

(ambitransitive) To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.

Label

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.

Badge

A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.

Label

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

Badge

Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Label

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

Badge

A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

Label

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

Badge

To mark or distinguish with a badge.

Label

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

Badge

An emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.);
They checked everyone's badge before letting them in

Label

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

Badge

Any feature that is regarded as a sign of status (a particular power or quality or rank);
Wearing a tie was regarded as a badge of respectability

Label

(transitive) To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something).
The shop assistant labeled all the products in the shop.

Badge

Put a badge on;
The workers here must be badged

Label

(ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing.
He's been unfairly labeled as a cheat, although he's only ever cheated once.

Label

(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.

Label

(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

Label

A tassel.

Label

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.

Label

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

Label

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

Label

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.

Label

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

Label

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.

Label

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

Label

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

Label

To affix in or on a label.

Label

A brief description given for purposes of identification;
The label Modern is applied to many different kinds of architecture

Label

Trade name of a company that produces musical recordings;
The artists and repertoire department of a recording label is responsible for finding new talent

Label

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

Label

An identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object

Label

Assign a label to; designate with a label;
These students were labelled `learning disabled'

Label

Attach a tag or label to;
Label these bottles

Label

Pronounce judgment on;
They labeled him unfit to work here

Label

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

Label

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

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