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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lab, laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratorynoun

    a workplace for the conduct of scientific research

Wiktionary

  1. labnoun

    A laboratory

  2. labnoun

    A Labrador retriever

ChatGPT

  1. lab

    A lab, short for laboratory, is a controlled setting or environment where scientific research, experiments, measurements, testing or analysis are conducted by scientists, researchers or medical professionals. It can be equipped with various tools, instruments, chemicals, or samples depending on its specific field of science such as chemistry, biology, physics, or medical science.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Labverb

    to prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab

  2. Labnoun

    a telltale; a prater; a blabber

  3. Etymology: [Cf. OD. labben to babble.]

Wikidata

  1. Lab

    LAB is an alternative rock band from Helsinki, Finland. Their single "Beat the Boys" was featured in the PS2/Xbox/PC game "Flatout".

Suggested Resources

  1. LAB

    What does LAB stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the LAB acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. LAB

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Lab is ranked #50771 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Lab surname appeared 411 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Lab.

    85.4% or 351 total occurrences were White.
    5.6% or 23 total occurrences were Asian.
    5.3% or 22 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.1% or 9 total occurrences were Black.
    1.4% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'lab' in Nouns Frequency: #2583

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Anagrams for lab »

  1. alb

  2. BLA

  3. bal

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lab in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lab in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of lab in a Sentence

  1. Kenichi Tamama:

    Especially for the liver transplant clinics or alcohol abuse clinics, it's important for them to recognize this rare condition, because they're the ones that monitor alcohol abstinence, and as you see in this case, the lab test results with urinary auto-brewery syndrome might be misinterpreted.

  2. Peter Daszak:

    I just wanted to say a personal thank you on behalf of our staff and collaborators, for publicly standing up and stating that the scientific evidence supports a natural origin for COVID-19 from a bat-to-human spillover, not a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

  3. Suzanne Dixon:

    All varieties are rich in phytosterols, which have been shown in lab and animal studies to inhibit tumor development.

  4. Shelley Brown:

    A lab-created diamond is really not as big of an investment as a natural diamond, consumers may not be educated about this.

  5. Chris Hansen:

    What you saw today was a prototype of the pressure garment. The life support system is back in a lab in Houston, we want systems that allow our astronauts to be scientists on the surface of the moon.

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