labelled vs labeled
Definitions
adjective
- bearing or marked with a label or tag
Examples
Single radiolabelled colonies harbouring plasmids with inserts bigger than 1000 bp were analysed further.
Measures designed to promote and protect local educational values could be labelled as ‘barriers to trade’.
I'm still labelled a hypochondriac, a lier, someone who's making things up.
Definitions
adjective
- bearing or marked with a label or tag
Examples
In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded.
Eventually almost all postwar writers whose work departs significantly from convention have come to be labeled "postmodernist," a term that has definable meaning but that also has been used as an aid in this lashing-out, a way to further disparage such writers both by lumping them together indiscriminately and by identifying their work as just another participant in literary fashion.
They labeled him unfit to work here
