lab

• IPA^(key): /læb/

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• Rhymes: -æb

Clipping of laboratory.

lab (plural labs)

1. (colloquial) A laboratory.
   • 1962, “Monster Mash”, Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Lenny Capizzi (lyrics), performed by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers:

     I was working in the lab late one night
     When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
     For my monster, from his slab, began to rise
     And suddenly, to my surprise
     He did the Mash
     He did the Monster Mash.

   • 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.

   • 2023 August 2, Ben Tinker, Meg Tirrell and Brenda Goodman, “New director named at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases after Fauci’s retirement”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The NIAID supports projects at universities and research organizations around the United States as well as a network of 21 NIAID labs across the country.

   • 2025 March 28, Andrea Fox, “Lab critical to medical device development 'DOGEd'”, in Healthcare IT News‎^[2]:

     Since the lab has been "doged," a petition posted to Change.org by Evgeny Stambulchik asked for signatures to oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group and has garnered 2,500 signatures as of reporting time. There is also a campaign website.

2. (colloquial) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.

   I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.

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lab (plural labs)

1. (colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

• choco lab

• BLA, BAL, Alb., alb, bla, abl.

• From lëpe, lëbozë. Historically the inhabitants of the Labëria (“the land of lab”) region. Compare Illyrian *Labeati.^[1]

• 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]

lab m (labe, f.)

1. southern Albanian (male)

   (male person from Labëri (“land of lab”), Labëria (“the land of lab”))

• Labëri
• Labëria
• labërisht
• Labërishtja
• arbër

Cognate of Swedish labb (“paw”).

lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)

1. paw

lab

1. imperative of labbe

• labo

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lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)

1. (Netherlands) lab

Cognate with Burmese လှုပ် (hlup).

lab

1. to move; to stir.

• Dr. Ola Hanson, A Dictionary of the Kachin Language (1906).

lab

1. wing

• IPA^(key): /ˈlab/ [ˈlaβ̞]
• Rhymes: -ab
• Syllabification: lab

lab m (plural labs)

1. lab (laboratory)

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /laːp˧/
• Tone numbers: lap⁸
• Hyphenation: lab

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

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

1. candle

From Chinese 臘 (MC lap, “cured meat”).

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

1. to cure (meat) by drying or smoking

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

1. cured; dried; smoked