lab
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lab (plural labs)
- (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.
- (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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laboratory — see laboratory
Etymology 2 edit
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lab (plural labs)
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Albanian edit
Etymology edit
- 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]
Noun edit
lab m (labe, f.)
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- ^ 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)."
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “lab”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 208-9
Danish edit
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Cognate of Swedish labb (“paw”).
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lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)
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Declension of lab
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lab
- imperative of labbe
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Short for laboratorium
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Audio (file)
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lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)
Lhao Vo edit
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Cognate with Lashi loeb and Burmese လှုပ် (hlup).
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lab
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- Dr. Ola Hanson, A Dictionary of the Kachin Language (1906).
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lab
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lab m (plural labs)
- lab (laboratory)
Zhuang edit
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- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /laːp˧/
- Tone numbers: lab8
- Hyphenation: lab
Etymology 1 edit
From Chinese 蠟 (MC lap, “wax; candle”).
Noun edit
lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, 1957–1982 spelling lab)
Etymology 2 edit
From Chinese 臘 (MC lap, “cured meat”).
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lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, 1957–1982 spelling lab)
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lab (Sawndip forms 曪 or 腊, 1957–1982 spelling lab)