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- Today, Patrick had to drive drugs down to the state lab-not a big deal, except that it was a four-hour block of his day that vanished right there.†
Chpt 1lab = 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
- He had blood results come back from the lab as a match for a break-in at a jewelry store, and a suppression hearing in superior court, and already on his desk was the first new complaint of the day-a theft of wallets in which the credit cards had been used, leaving a trail for Patrick to trace.†
Chpt 1
- The dealer they'd busted at the high school had admitted it was cocaine, and yet Patrick had to waste half his day taking it to the state lab so that someone in a white coat could tell him what he already knew.†
Chpt 1
- At the next meeting, Patrick would be given the completed photo-books, all evidence not being sent to the lab, and all lab submissions.†
Chpt 1
- At the next meeting, Patrick would be given the completed photo-books, all evidence not being sent to the lab, and all lab submissions.†
Chpt 1
- Josie put on an oversize lab coat.†
Chpt 1
- He waved in apology to the car that pulled up alongside him to pass and drove to the state crime lab, where the ballistics tests had been given priority.†
Chpt 1
- She looked up when Patrick came into the lab and raised a brow.†
Chpt 1
- Selma nodded to the rear of the laboratory, where enormous barrels of water were used for test-firing the guns.†
Chpt 1
- They sat together during lunch, they read each other's rough drafts in English, they were always each other's lab partners.†
Chpt 1
- With Josie's help, he'd made a slipcover of sorts from the tape and an old newspaper they stole from the science lab.†
Chpt 1
- The science lab had burning acid.†
Chpt 1
- She was sitting in bio lab next to Courtney.†
Chpt 1
- Josie ordinarily would not have picked Courtney as a lab partner-she wasn't the brightest bulb in the chandelier-but that didn't seem to matter.†
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- No matter how skimpy their lab reports turned out, they still always managed to get A's.†
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- Peter's last job that day was moving a projector from a bio lab on the second floor back down to the AV room.†
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- You have to get the potassium chlorate from bleach, which isn't easy, but it's kind of like doing a chemistry lab.†
Chpt 1
- Yes, by the state crime lab.†
Chpt 2
- Did the lab find any fingerprints of value on Gun A?†
Chpt 2
- Did the lab compare the fingerprint on Gun A to any other person's fingerprints?†
Chpt 2
- When the lab collected the print off the gun's grip and compared it to Matt Royston's fingerprints, were they able to determine whether or not there was a match?†
Chpt 2
- And when the lab compared it to Peter Houghton's fingerprints, were they able to determine whether or not there was a match?†
Chpt 2
- In addition to processing the weapons found in the locker room for fingerprints, did the lab do any other forensic testing on them?†
Chpt 2
- I drove it straight to the lab for testing-and stood over them all night with a whip until they agreed to do the work on the spot.†
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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.