lab

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

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /læb/
    • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Rhymes: -æb

Noun

lab (plural labs)

  1. (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.
  2. (colloquial) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
    I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.
  3. (colloquial) A Labrador retriever.
Synonyms

(laboratory):

Derived terms
Translations
laboratory — see laboratory

Noun

lab (plural labs)

  1. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology
  • 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.[2]

Noun

lab m (labe, f.)

  1. southern Albanian (male)
    (male person from Labëri (“land of lab”), Labëria (“the land of lab”))

References
  1. 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)."
  2. Orel, Vladimir (1998) Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 208-9

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

Etymology

Short for laboratorium

Pronunciation
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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).

Spanish

Noun

lab m (plural labs)

  1. lab (laboratory)

Zhuang

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

  1. candle

Etymology 2

From Chinese 臘 (MC lɑp̚, “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
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