Both Uses of
laboratory
in
Listening for Lions
- Our days were filled with classes and laboratories and our nights with study.†
Book 3laboratories = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
- "We must find many people to make bricks," I said, "and we will have to dig a new well, a large one, and we must do it quickly, for the cots have been ordered and the laboratory equipment and a generator as large as your hut.†
Book 3 *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
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.