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Just reading the book, the international best seller, Thinking Fast and Slow,
written by, the winner of the Nobel Prize, Daniel Kahneman. In the introduction
he said " To be a good diagnostician, a physician needs to acquire a large set of
labels for disease,.........". What is label, look up, first, the Merriam-Webster's
Dictionary its descriptions are as follow:
1. One attached to a document to hold an appended seal.
2. A heraldic charge that consists of a narrow horizontal band with usually three
pendants.
3. A slip (as of paper or cloth) inscribed and affixed to something for identification
or description.
4. Written or printed matter accompanying an article to furnish identification or
other information.
5. A descriptive or identifying word or phrase as (1) Epithet (2) a word or phrase
used with a dictionary definition to provide additional information.
6. A usually radioactive isotope used in labeling.
7. An adhesive stamp ( as for postage or revenue).
8. A brand of commercial recording issued under a usually trademarked name.
9. A recording so issued.
10. A company issuing such recordings.
11. The brand name of a retail store selling clothing, a clothing manufacturer, or
a fashion designer.
12. To affix a label to .
13. To describe or designate with or as if with a label.
14. To distinguish (an element or atom) by using an isotope distinctive in some
manner ( as in mass or radioactivity).
15. To distinguish ( as a compound or cell) but introducing a traceable constituent
( as a dye or labeled atom).
Second, the Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary, it says:
1. A piece of paper, cloth, or similar material that is attached to something to
identify or describe it.
2. A word or phrase that describes or identifies something or someone.
3. A company that produces musical recordings.
4. A name shown on clothes that indicates the store, company or person who sold,
Produced, or designed the clothes.
5. To put a word or name on something to describe or identify it : to attach a label
to (something ) -- often used as (be) labeled.
6. To name or describe (someone or something) in a specified way : to give a
label to (someone or something) -- often used as (be) labeled.
Third, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English New Edition has such
definitions:
1. A piece of paper or another material that is attached to something and gives
information about it.
2. A word or phrase which is used to describe a person, group, or things, but
which is unfair or not correct.
3. A record company.
4. Designer label.
5. To attach a label onto something or write information on something.
6. To use a word or phrase to describe someone or something, but often unfairly
or incorrectly.
Fourth, the Cambgidge Advanced Learner's Dictionary it's describing:
1. A piece of paper or other material which gives you information about the
object it is fixed to.
2. A word or phrase which is used to describe the characteristics or qualities
of people, activities or things, often in a way that is unfair.
3. A company which produces goods for sale, the goods themselves, or the
company's name or symbol.
Fifth, the MacMillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learner's of American
English also has such definitions:
1. A piece of paper or material fastened to an object that gives information
about it.
2. A word or phrase that is used to describe someone or something, especially
one that is not completely fair or true.
3. A company that designs and makes expensive clothes.
4. A piece of clothing that has been made by a well-known designer.
5. A company that produces records.
6. To put a label on an object.
7. To use a word or phrase to describe someone or something, especially one
that is not completely fair or true.
That is out of my imagination that the word of label has so many definitions and
tells us the important of looking up the dictionary when we run upon the word that w
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