lab
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1.6
- noun
- /læb/
- Informal
:
laboratorio
- Students conduct experiments in the school's lab during their science classes.
- computer lab
- lab test
- a university lab
The actual act of being in the lab is still fun as fuck.
- The actual act of being in the lab is still fun as fuck.
- John, if you have more questions about last week's lab, cool.
- Ended up sending me to a lab where I cut brains.
- So we're not ready, at least in my lab, for anything that big.
- Same with, for instance, the, the lab leak theory about COVID.
- And the director of the lab had a problem for me.
- And Lisa has a paper from her lab, Hardcastle ET al.
- So we went up to the secret lab to see it.
- I am talking to the Innovative Peace Lab here at Stanford.
- That little whip pan into this lab looked so good.
Examples
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Everybody in my lab reads both of these books.
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They need better funding for their language lab.
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John, if you have more questions about last week's lab, cool.
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And the director of the lab had a problem for me.
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I mean, how do we go into a lab and check your stuff?
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The lab sent it to us, with this letter inside.
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Were you able to get the lab fully operational?
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Did my blood ever make it to the lab?
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I'd love to show you our lab when we're back.
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Next year will likely be the final field season at Magdalena, but lab analysis will continue for years.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
341
3.0
A room or building where scientists do experiments and tests
23
3.4
A place where people study and test ideas to learn new things
18
3.5
A place where scientists do experiments to learn about the world
11
2.8
A room in a school or research building where people do experiments
5
2.3
A room where students do chemistry experiments at school or college
5
3.7
A place where scientists do experiments to learn about science
5
3.2
A room with equipment for experiments that study living things
3
2.9
A room where people do chemistry experiments and teach chemistry
2
3.6
A room where people study living things and do experiments
2
3.2
A room with tools and machines for doing experiments about matter and energy
1
3.2
A room or building where people do experiments, research, and teach science
1
4.1
A room or building with equipment for doing experiments and teaching physics
1
3.8
A room with equipment for doing experiments about living things
A room for doing experiments with chemicals for teaching or research
Compounds
24
2.1
A long white coat worn over clothes in a laboratory to protect them from spills and chemicals
How Equipped
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Etymology
Lab is a short form of laboratory, and both come from the Latin word labor meaning 'work'. So a lab is literally a place for 'work'—the work of science and experiments.