lab coat
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2.1
- noun
- /læb koʊt/
:
bata de laboratorio
- She always wears a lab coat and gloves when handling chemicals in the lab.
- a white lab coat
Imagine a white scientist lab coat, like a white lab coat.
- Imagine a white scientist lab coat, like a white lab coat.
- I've noticed often when we meet that your lab coat seems like it is a little dirty.
- He's always come in with the full assuredness of his white lab coat, his God complex.
- And you know that this is serious because I've got my lab coat on, I've got my fake dirty glasses on.
- Hairnet, lab coat, gloves, Put in the fucking work.
- And maybe our Big Bang was created by an extraterrestrial in a white lab coat.
- I play a scientist, I wear glasses and a lab coat and I walk around in the lab and I'm very very stressed out.
- And now it's with a lab coat and math and numbers.
- If you want to join La Facilidad, if you want to get a silky white lab coat, weapons early.
- They they they were just seem like like they weren't, you know, just people in lab coats.
Examples
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A scientist in a white lab coat is holding up the model.
Fiction book (1993) -
They actually wear lab coats here.
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Is that a lab coat?
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What happened to your lab coat?
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Wear a white lab coat.
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Emma picks herself up, sees the man in the white lab coat, and runs for him.
Fiction book (1998) -
At least they're not in lab coats.
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Both of them wore white lab coats, but Adams had more pens in his pocket.
Fiction book (1991) -
A young Oriental woman in a starched white lab coat walked into the room.
Fiction book (1994) -
In the performance, actors in white lab coats busily milled around, moving in a pantomime of technical confidence.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
A light protective piece of clothing worn over clothes in a lab
How Protective
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'lab' (a place for scientific work) + 'coat' (an outer garment): a coat worn in a laboratory to protect clothing. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent noun compound, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Lab coat is a light, usually white coat people wear over clothes in a lab to 'protect' them from spills and chemicals. So, the name simply means a 'coat' used to keep people's clothes safe during experiments.