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skylab

noun

Etymology

From Cebuano skylab, from English Skylab, from its crude resemblance in shape to the space station.

  1. derived from Skylab
  2. derived from skylab

Definitions

  1. An outer space laboratory.

    • Two aspects of altered immunity must be dealt with before man can exist for extended periods in space capsules, skylabs, or sealabs.
    • What are the scientists up to, apart from perfecting impenetrable food packaging and orbiting skylabs?

  2. A motorcycle taxi with extension seats on the sides, configured by placing a wooden beam…

    A motorcycle taxi with extension seats on the sides, configured by placing a wooden beam across the pillion.

    • At the very beginning of my time in Lake Sebu the jeepneys coming from the lowland would go until Lëm-Delag. Later on, the barangay officials decided that only skylabs were allowed to carry passengers to Lëm-Delag.
    • Parked by its ancestor the ox cart, skylabs are the only public transit in this Sakhon Nakhon village.
    • In the town of Mongkayo skylabs are designed to hold as many as a dozen passengers.

  3. An orbiting workshop and observatory built by NASA.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for skylab. 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