lab

¹

[ lab ]

noun

1. laboratory.

Lab

²

[ lab ]

noun

1. Informal. Labrador retriever.

LAB

³

or lab

abbreviation for

, Slang.

1. life’s a bitch (used to acknowledge, often dismissively, a difficult or unfair circumstance).

lab.

⁴

abbreviation for

1. labor.
2. laboratory.
3. laborer.

Lab.

⁵

abbreviation for

1. Laborite.
2. Labrador.

lab

¹

/ læb /

noun

1. short for laboratory
2. short for Labrador retriever

lab.

²

abbreviation for

1. laboratory
2. labour

Lab.

³

abbreviation for

1. politics Labour
2. Labrador

Word History and Origins

Origin of lab¹

By shortening

Origin of lab²

By shortening

Origin of lab³

From its use in digital communications

Example Sentences

In their recent paper, the Ma lab identified transcription initiation sites for about 40,000 genes in soy.

From Science Daily

Eliava, in contrast, was a mischievous charmer who pranked his friends, once dressing as a woman to flirt with d’Hérelle at a dinner party, and kept sketchy notes in the lab.

From Salon

Cedars-Sinai medical staff had failed to follow up on imaging and lab orders and delayed taking Johnson back to the operating room until nearly 10 hours had passed since her C-section, the letter said.

From Los Angeles Times

Instead of studying cells in a lab dish, the scientists used advanced computer modeling to analyze how molecular networks inside ciliate and mammalian cells respond to different patterns of stimulation.

From Science Daily

Then, his team showed that this new F protein was both more stable in the lab and successfully worked to vaccinate mice against RSV.

From Science Daily

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