labelers

Those who categorize

People or devices that apply labels.

Labelers work in warehouses affixing shipping labels, in factories marking products, or in data science annotating datasets for machine learning: We hired labelers to tag images for the training set.

The word can carry slight dismissiveness when referring to people who categorize others: The labelers were quick to call him a radical.

Also spelled labellers.

workers

taggers

Those who label

classifiers · indexers · catalogers · graders · raters · reviewers · assessors · evaluators · crowdworkers · transcribers

tools

markers

Pens with porous tips

  • stickersAdhesive-backed paper images
  • tagsIdentifiers for sorting items
  • stampsPostal payment adhesives

printers · applicators · dispensers · guns · adhesives · tapes · machines · embossers · engravers

organization

sorting

Arranging into sequence

arranging · filing · indexing · systematizing · ordering · binning · segmenting · partitioning · clustering · bucketing

identification

branding

Creating distinctive identity

naming · designating · indicating · denoting · titling · specifying · coding · numbering · barcoding · serializing

Categories
Opposites
categorization activity

labelerslumpers

Those favoring broad categories

generalizers · homogenizers · blenders · mixers

physical marking function

labelerserasers

Tools removing pencil marks

strippers · defacers · concealers · peelers · scrapers

organizational role

labelerslumpers

Those favoring broad categories

aggregators · poolers · combiners · mergers · bundlers

Phrases
Family

labeled, unlabeled, mislabeled, relabeled, labeler

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G