All 4 Uses of
laboratory
in
Change of Heart, by Picoult
- Although nobody would officially give us the results of the lab testing, rumor had it that the liquid in question was definitely not tap water.†
*lab = 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
- To that end, I was now ensconced in a lab on the Dartmouth campus, with a graduate student named Ahmed who was trying to explain to me the results of the test he'd run on the soil sample taken from the vicinity of the pipes that ran into I-tier.†
- I'd craft elaborate covers—a tiny, two-dimensional working guillotine for my essay on A Tale of Two Cities; a science lab on prisms with the header rainbowed in multiple colors; a scarlet letter for ....well, you get the picture.†
- I ran up the stairs, pushing past doctors and nurses and lab technicians and secretaries, as if my speed now could make up for the fact that I had not been available for Shay when he needed me.†
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) 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.