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

Eventually, they were able to more closely examine the animal in the lab and confirmed it was a nudribranch, also known as a sea slug, according to the release.

From Los Angeles Times

Add that to the Yale Budget Lab’s estimate of more than 5 percent inflation from the more extreme versions of Trump’s tariff scenarios, and you have the recipe for an inflationary spiral that would make post-pandemic price increases look like a gentle hill that we climbed happily together on a languid summer afternoon.

From Slate

They do a lot of seemingly silly things in an attempt to re-create aspects of the world in a lab, where they can be monitored and replicated over and over and over.

From Slate

They also create an environment for surprising new discoveries, things scientists would never have dreamed of had they not been in the lab, conducting basic research.

From Slate

Janey Rountree, the executive director of UCLA’s California Policy Lab and an advisor on the measure, has tried to address that problem by developing a data-driven strategy to identify people at risk of becoming homeless.

From Los Angeles Times

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