lab
English
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
lab (plural labs)
- (colloquial) A laboratory.
- 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.
- 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)
- (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
- I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.
Derived terms
Translations
laboratory — see laboratory
Etymology 2
Noun
lab (plural labs)
Translations
Labrador retriever
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Etymology 3
Noun
lab (plural labs)
- (obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
Anagrams
Albanian
Etymology
- From lëpe, lëbozë. Historically the inhabitants of the Labëria (“the land of lab”) region. Compare Illyrian *Labeati.[1]
- Alternatively, could also be metathesized form of *alban, possibly through a Slavic dialect (cf. arbën ~ Serbo-Croatian raban 'Albanian').(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun
lab m (labe, f.)
Related terms
References
- ^ Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, →ISBN, page 172, "...area, including Oaneum on a river Aratus, which controlled the route leading west to the kingdom of Gentius among the Labeates around Vlora (Valona)here is in real the Labeates not in Shkodra,this part these pieces of land are called again today Labëria (Labeati)."
Danish
Noun
lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)
Inflection
Declension of lab
Verb
lab
Dutch
Alternative forms
Etymology
Short for laboratorium
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)
Spanish
Noun
lab m (plural labs)
- lab (laboratory)
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