All 9 Uses of
laboratory
in
In the Unlikely Event
- He'd eat in his tiny lab, sitting on a high stool, thumbing through the lastest issue of Esquire or one of the other magazines he subscribed to.†
p. 92.6lab = 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
- She scrubbed her feet in the toilet, flushing again and again, wiped herself clean with disposable towels and changed into her white lab coat and shoes.†
p. 184.4
- She ran into the small, narrow lab where Daisy kept a row of white plaster-of-Paris figurines lined up on a shelf, each one a foot high, waiting for Dr. O to smash if he felt a temper coming on.†
p. 185.5
- She went back to the lab, picked up the broom, swept up the mess and washed off the floor.†
p. 186.8
- It was coming from her, her hair, her skin, the clothes she wore under the white lab coat.†
p. 187.1
- There was someone who worked in the lab down the hall ... Miri†
p. 222.1
- On the way down the hall they passed the medical lab and Miri poked her head in the way she always did, to see the fat white rabbits in their cages.†
p. 262.5
- Once, Miri had a blood test at the lab to see if she was anemic.†
p. 262.7
- Every time she passed the lab down the hall she looked in and saw the fat white rabbits in their cages.†
p. 339.2 *
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.