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The Time Machine

Then, still smiling faintly, and with his hands deep in his trousers pockets, he walked slowly out of the room, and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory.†
Chpt 1

laboratory = a workplace where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals (also used figuratively) OR (as an adjective) related to such a place

'What is more, I have a big machine nearly finished in there'—he indicated the laboratory—'and when that is put together I mean to have a journey on my own account.'†
Chpt 1

And therewith, taking the lamp in his hand, he led the way down the long, draughty corridor to his laboratory.†
Chpt 1 *

I remember vividly the flickering light, his queer, broad head in silhouette, the dance of the shadows, how we all followed him, puzzled but incredulous, and how there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes.†
Chpt 1

I was in my laboratory at four o'clock, and since then ...I've lived eight days ...such days as no human being ever lived before!†
Chpt 2

I seemed to reel; I felt a nightmare sensation of falling; and, looking round, I saw the laboratory exactly as before.†
Chpt 3

The laboratory got hazy and went dark.†
Chpt 3

The laboratory grew faint and hazy, then fainter and ever fainter.†
Chpt 3

The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day.†
Chpt 3

I supposed the laboratory had been destroyed and I had come into the open air.†
Chpt 3

Then the old walls of the laboratory came round me.†
Chpt 12

As I returned, I passed again across that minute when she traversed the laboratory.†
Chpt 12

The door at the lower end opened, and she glided quietly up the laboratory, back foremost, and disappeared behind the door by which she had previously entered.†
Chpt 12

'Then I stopped the machine, and saw about me again the old familiar laboratory, my tools, my appliances just as I had left them.†
Chpt 12

The thing had started from the south-east corner of the laboratory.†
Chpt 12

I was told he was in the laboratory, and being on easy terms in the house, I went up to him.†
Chpt 12

The laboratory, however, was empty.†
Chpt 12

I heard the door of the laboratory slam, seated myself in a chair, and took up a daily paper.†
Chpt 12

Save for a subsiding stir of dust, the further end of the laboratory was empty.†
Chpt 12

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(1) (laboratory)
a workplace where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals

or (as an adjective): related to such a place
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Much more rarely, lab can be used as an abbreviated way of saying Labrador retriever. It is also a rare last name and may indicate someone's initials.