Label
A label was a tag affixed to something that gave details on its nature, ownership, etc.

All specimens in Dr. Mora Pol's laboratory had to be labelled in Cardassian while the lab was under Cardassian supervision. Odo, when first located, was labelled "Odo'ital", meaning "nothing". It later became his name. ()

Isolinear rods were assigned different colored labels, each corresponding to a different function. ()

In 2268, after having his wounds cleaned by Dr. Leonard McCoy with some Taos lightning, James T. Kirk told McCoy to label the alcohol "for external use only", as it stung. ()

In 2370, when Odo questioned how Quark could be certain that the contents of a set of desiccation discs were really the remains of the famous Ferengi Plegg, Quark pointed out that it said so on the label. ()

In 2371, Quark recognized the label on a bottle of Aldebaran whiskey Rom had drunk, identifying it as part of his private stock. ()

In 2375, while contemplating Julian Bashir's plan to walk through Luther Sloan's subconscious looking for the cure to the morphogenic virus, Miles O'Brien asked the doctor if he was going to look for a box labeled "the cure". Bashir said it might be that simple, or more surrealistic than that. ()

See also
 Name tag

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Communication