All 15 Uses
laboratory
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- We probably still have the data laying around at the Taylor Laboratory.†
Chpt 4.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
- In return for an early out, after receiving his degree he would go to work for the Naval Research Laboratory.†
Chpt 5.
- Four years before, a PhD candidate in geophysics who was working at Cal Tech's geophysical laboratory had completed a program of six hundred thousand steps designed to predict earthquakes.†
Chpt 5.
- The Navy Research Laboratory also redrafted it for its own purposes.†
Chpt 5.
- He didn't like the built-in bias, which he felt the research laboratory had not entirely removed.†
Chpt 5.
- Petrov took the rack into the adjacent laboratory and hung it on the handle of the single filing cabinet.†
Chpt 7.
- Petrov set the lab timer for seventy-five seconds and submerged the film strips in the first basin as he pressed the start button.†
Chpt 7.
- Not really life threatening, but...Petrov went back into his office, careful to leave the films in the labs.†
Chpt 7.labs = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
- Petrov got the films from the lab and handed them to the captain.†
Chpt 7.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
- He'd taken the old dinosaur program from the files of the Taylor Lab, adapted it to the common Defense Department computer language, ADA—named for Lady Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron—and then tightened it up.†
Chpt 8.
- Younger than Tait, and taller, he had a white lab coat over his greens.†
Chpt 10.
- The radiology lab had struck out.†
Chpt 11.
- A nurse came out of the room with a blood sample to be taken down to the lab.†
Chpt 11.
- A hundred perhaps, and the number will increase somewhat—but remember that they think we now have two dead Soviet subs off our coast, and they have every reason to believe that whatever Soviet sub equipment turns up in our labs has been recovered from the ocean floor.†
Chpt 16.labs = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
- Which had burned out a lab, destroying three months of data and fifteen thousand dollars of equipment.†
Chpt 17. *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
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.