All 7 Uses
laboratory
in
Flowers for Algernon -- Short Story
(Edited)
- Tonight after work Miss Kinnian was at the laboratory.
p. 7.2laboratory = workplace where people do scientific or medical research
- Dr. Strauss is very angry at me for not having written any progress reports in two weeks. He's justified because the lab is now paying me a regular salary.
p. 13.4
- I visited the lab to see him as I do occasionally, and when I took him out of his cage, he snapped at my hand.
p. 16.4
- Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur have asked me not to come to the lab any more.
p. 16.7
- I have been given a lab of my own and permission to go ahead with the research.
p. 16.9 *lab = workplace for scientific or medical research
- I'm on to something. Working day and night. I've had a cot moved into the lab.
p. 16.9lab = workplace where people do scientific or medical research
- I think I lost this months check from the lab. I dont remember
p. 20.5
Definitions:
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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) 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.