lab

See also: Lab, LAB, láb, lǟb, and Lab.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læb/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

Noun

lab (plural labs)

1. (colloquial) A laboratory.
   • 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

     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.

   • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:

     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.

2. (colloquial) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.

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

Derived terms

• clan lab
• computer lab
• drug lab
• dry lab, dry-lab
• fab lab
• hot lab
• lab assistant
• lab coat
• lab dip
• lab mouse
• lab on a chip
• lab rat
• lab work
• language lab
• meth lab
• wet lab

Translations

laboratory — see laboratory

Etymology 2

Noun

lab (plural labs)

1. (colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

Derived terms

• choco lab

Translations

Labrador retriever

• Finnish: labbis (fi), labukka, labradori

Anagrams

• Alb., BAL, BLA, abl., alb

Albanian

Etymology

• From lëpe, lëbozë. Historically the inhabitants of the Labëria (“the land of lab”) region. Compare Illyrian *Labeati.

• Alternatively a back-formation based on Labëri (“Laberia”), borrowed from an unattested South Slavic *labanьja < *olbanьja, rendering the native pre-Albanian name of the country; Albania, Ἀλβανία (Albanía). However, this is doubtful.

Noun

lab m (labe, f.)

1. southern Albanian (male)

   (male person from Labëri (“land of lab”), Labëria (“the land of lab”))

Related terms

• Labëri
• Labëria
• labërisht
• Labërishtja
• arbër

Danish

Etymology

Cognate of Swedish labb (“paw”).

Noun

lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)

1. paw

Inflection

Declension of lab

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	lab	labben	labber	labberne
genitive	labs	labbens	labbers	labbernes

Verb

lab

1. imperative of labbe

Dutch

Alternative forms

• labo

Etymology

Short for laboratorium

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Noun

lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)

1. (Netherlands) lab

Lhao Vo

Etymology

Cognate with Lashi loeb and Burmese လှုပ် (hlup).

Verb

lab

1. to move; to stir.

References

• Dr. Ola Hanson, A Dictionary of the Kachin Language (1906).

Narua

Noun

lab

1. wing

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlab/ [ˈlaβ̞]
• Rhymes: -ab
• Syllabification: lab

Noun

lab m (plural labs)

1. lab (laboratory)

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /laːp˧/
• Tone numbers: lab⁸
• Hyphenation: lab

Etymology 1

From Chinese 蠟 (MC lap, “wax; candle”).

Noun

lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, 1957–1982 spelling lab)

1. candle

Etymology 2

From Chinese 臘 (MC lap, “cured meat”).

Verb

lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, 1957–1982 spelling lab)

1. to cure (meat) by drying or smoking

Adjective

lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, 1957–1982 spelling lab)

1. cured; dried; smoked

Derived terms

• ndwenlab