All 11 Uses of
laboratory
in
A Wrinkle in Time
- Fortinbras stared at the door that opened into Mrs. Murry's laboratory which was in the old stone dairy right off the kitchen.
p. 20.5laboratory = workplace for scientific or medical research
- Beyond the lab a pantry led outdoors, though Mrs. Murry had done her best to train the family to come into the house through the garage door or the front door and not through her lab.
p. 20.6
- Beyond the lab a pantry led outdoors, though Mrs. Murry had done her best to train the family to come into the house through the garage door or the front door and not through her lab.
p. 20.7
- But it was the lab door and not the garage door toward which Fortinbras was growling.
p. 20.7
- Meg exclaimed as Mrs. Murry went out through the lab.
p. 21.5
- When Meg got home from school her mother was in the lab, the twins were at Little League, and Charles Wallace, the kitten, and Fortinbras were waiting for her.
p. 33.6
- When they got back to the house Mrs. Murry was still in the lab.
p. 45.8
- But she didn't have to answer because the door from lab to kitchen slammed, and Mrs. Murry came in, carrying a dish of stew.
p. 48.7
- The shadows were swirling in the crystal again, and as they cleared Meg began to recognize her mother's lab at home.
p. 108.2
- It was the way he sounded sometimes when he came home from his laboratory after a good day and began to tell his wife about his work.
p. 166.8
- In the lab at school there was a human brain preserved in formaldehyde, and the seniors preparing for college had to take it out and look at it and study it.
p. 177.8 *
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.