Both Uses of
laboratory
in
Cry, the Beloved Country
- While they were driving to the Police Laboratories, John Harrison told Jarvis all that he knew about the crime, how the police were waiting for the house-boy to recover consciousness, and how they had combed the plantations on Parkwold Ridge.†
Chpt 2.19laboratories = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
- So they came to the Laboratories, and John Harrison stayed in the car, while the others went to do the hard thing that had to be done.†
Chpt 2.19 *
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.