lab

¹

[lab]

noun

1. laboratory.

Lab

²

[lab]

noun

1. Informal.,  Labrador retriever.

LAB

³

Or lab

abbreviation

Slang.

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

lab.

⁴

abbreviation

1. labor.

2. laboratory.

3. laborer.

Lab.

⁵

abbreviation

1. Laborite.

2. Labrador.

Lab.

¹

abbreviation

1. politics Labour

2. Labrador

lab

²

/ læb /

noun

1. short for laboratory

2. short for Labrador retriever

lab.

³

abbreviation

1. laboratory

2. labour

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

She gets lab work done twice a year through the direct-to-consumer testing company Function Health.

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"So I scooped it up, put it in a ziplock bag, hopped on my scooter, and brought it back to the lab!"

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The lab identified at least 31 clusters of objects consistent with human bodies between Monday and Friday, across neighbourhoods, university grounds and military sites.

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China held a send-off ceremony on Friday for a new crew of astronauts set to depart for its space station, including its youngest "taikonaut" and four lab mice.

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That builds on an existing partnership with the lab, but Ramaco said it would also work with other Energy Department laboratories on rare earths.

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