All 26 Uses
laboratory
in
Legend, by Marie Lu
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- If you're lucky, Congress will let you die without first sending you to the labs to be examined for imperfections.†
p. 8.1labs = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
- I'm overseeing the lab at Los Angeles Central.†
p. 21.1lab = 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
- That's the third floor, a laboratory, where the blood samples and medicines will be.†
p. 24.1
- I'll have to reach the lab from inside.†
p. 24.5
- Shouts and footsteps echo from inside the laboratory.†
p. 30.9
- Behind me I hear the laboratory door burst open and soldiers spill out.†
p. 31.3
- Above me I can hear furious voices coming from the third-floor window as the soldiers realize they're going to have to double back into the laboratory to disable the alarm.†
p. 31.8
- Day broke into the laboratory for medicine as part of a desperate, last-minute, poorly thought-out plan.†
p. 47.2 *
- And if that much money was involved, he certainly would have planned more thoroughly and known when the laboratory's next shipment of plague medicine would arrive.†
p. 47.8
- I remember the hospital entrance, the stolen ID tag and the stairwell and the laboratory, the long fall, my knife thrown at the captain, the sewers.†
p. 52.1
- The other thing these trucks are used for around here is to transport special plague cases to the labs, due to their better emergency equipment.†
p. 144.4labs = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
- Why take him to the hospital lab?†
p. 177.3lab = 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
- But they did make a point of stopping by the lab.†
p. 177.5
- I try to think about where Eden might be—the Central Hospital lab, or a medical division of Batalla Hall, or even a train headed to the warfront.†
p. 194.4
- After I'd escaped from the lab and developed the habit of watching my family from a distance, I occasionally saw John sitting at our dining room table with his head in his hands, sobbing.†
p. 194.8
- But then they led me onto a train, and the train took us to the lab.†
p. 196.4
- They didn't do anything ...and Eden ...he's not a lab rat, you know.†
p. 199.2
- I've been in the lab of the Central Hospital before, you know.†
p. 200.1
- What were you doing in the lab?†
p. 200.3
- Then suddenly I'm back in the hospital lab again, and the doctors and nurses are standing over me.†
p. 205.7
- The lab in Batalla Hall.†
p. 242.7
- For the past few months I've tried asking subtle questions of other lab workers, and of Dad's old friends, and searching online.†
p. 243.5
- The report said that Dr. Michael Iparis had roused the suspicions of the Batalla Hall lab administrators when he first questioned the true purpose of his research.†
p. 244.2
- June, the Batalla Hall lab administrators ordered Commander Baccarin to keep an eye on our father.†
p. 244.6
- I don't give a damn what happens to the Colonies or exactly what our Republic wants to inflict on them—but June, our own people are lab rats.†
p. 247.1
- Dad worked in those labs, and when he tried to quit, they killed him.†
p. 247.1labs = workplaces where people do scientific or medical research, or produce drugs or chemicals
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.