Docket vs. Label

Docketnoun

(obsolete) A summary; a brief digest.

Docketnoun

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

Docketnoun

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

Docketnoun

An agenda of things to be done.

Docketnoun

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

Docketnoun

(Australia) A receipt.

Docketverb

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

Docketverb

(transitive) To label a parcel, etc.

Docketverb

(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.

Docketverb

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

Docketnoun

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

Docketnoun

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.

Docketnoun

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.

Docketnoun

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

Docketverb

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.

Docketverb

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

Docketverb

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

Docketnoun

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

Docketnoun

a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to

Docketverb

place on the docket for legal action;

Docketverb

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

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

(music) A company that sells records.

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

(obsolete) A tassel.

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

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

Labelverb

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

Labelverb

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

Labelverb

(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.

Labelverb

(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

Labelnoun

A tassel.

Labelnoun

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.

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

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.

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

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.

Labelnoun

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

Labelverb

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

Labelverb

To affix in or on a label.

Labelnoun

a brief description given for purposes of identification;

Labelnoun

trade name of a company that produces musical recordings;

Labelnoun

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

Labelnoun

an identifying or descriptive marker that is attached to an object

Labelverb

assign a label to; designate with a label;

Labelverb

attach a tag or label to;

Labelverb

pronounce judgment on;

Labelverb

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

Labelverb

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

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.