What does lab mean?
Definitions for lab
læblab
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word lab.
Princeton's WordNet
lab, laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratorynoun
a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
Wiktionary
labnoun
A laboratory
labnoun
A Labrador retriever
ChatGPT
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
Labverb
to prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab
Labnoun
a telltale; a prater; a blabber
Etymology: [Cf. OD. labben to babble.]
Wikidata
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
LAB
What does LAB stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the LAB acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'lab' in Nouns Frequency: #2583
Usage in printed sourcesFrom:
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Anagrams for lab »
alb
BLA
bal
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of lab in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of lab in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of lab in a Sentence
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.
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.
All varieties are rich in phytosterols, which have been shown in lab and animal studies to inhibit tumor development.
A lab-created diamond is really not as big of an investment as a natural diamond, consumers may not be educated about this.
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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- مختبرArabic
- laboratořCzech
- labDanish
- LaborGerman
- εργαστήριοGreek
- laboratorioSpanish
- آزمایشگاهPersian
- labbis, laboratorioFinnish
- laboratoireFrench
- प्रयोगHindi
- laborHungarian
- լաբորատորիաArmenian
- laboratoriumIndonesian
- laboratorioItalian
- 랩Korean
- labLatin
- laboratoriumDutch
- labNorwegian
- laboratoriumPolish
- laboratorRomanian
- лабораторияRussian
- labbSwedish
- ஆய்வகTamil
- ల్యాబ్Telugu
- ห้องปฏิบัติการThai
- laboratuvarTurkish
- лабораторіїUkrainian
- لیبUrdu
- phòng thí nghiệmVietnamese
- לאַבYiddish
- 实验室Chinese
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