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lab

noun
/læb/

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian Lab, from Лаб, from Thracian Alb.

  1. borrowed from Lab

Definitions

  1. A laboratory.

    • I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster, from his slab, began to rise And suddenly, to my surprise He did the Mash He did the Monster Mash.
    • A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
    • The NIAID supports projects at universities and research organizations around the United States as well as a network of 21 NIAID labs across the country.

  2. Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.

    • I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.

  3. A Labrador retriever.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Diminutive of Labrador, a breed of dog.

    2. Abbreviation of Labour.

    3. Alternative form of Lab., Abbreviation of Labrador

      Alternative form of Lab., Abbreviation of Labrador: a region of Canada.

    4. A river in Kosovo.

    5. A region of Kosovo.

    6. Abbreviation of Labour Party.

    7. Initialism of Lyman-alpha blob

      Initialism of Lyman-alpha blob;.

    8. Initialism of lactic acid bacterium.

    9. Abbreviation of linear alkylbenzene.

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Derived

biolab, clan lab, computer lab, drug lab, dry lab, dry-lab, fab lab, hacklab, homelab, hot lab, lab assistant, labbie, lab coat, lab dip, labful, lab-grown, lab lit, labmate, lab mouse, lab on a chip, lab rat, labside, lab tech, labware, lab work, language lab, medlab, meth lab, minilab, nonlab, photolab, prelab, science lab, sealab, skylab, superlab, wet lab, wet-lab

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lab. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA