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lab
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lab has 1 sense
- lab(n = noun.artifact) laboratory, research lab, research laboratory, science lab, science laboratory - a workplace for the conduct of scientific research; Array has particulars: bio lab, biology lab, biology laboratory, chem lab, chemistry lab, chemistry laboratory, defense laboratory, physics lab, physics laboratory
has parts: lab bench, laboratory bench
is a kind of work, workplace
CIDE DICTIONARY
lab, v. i. [Cf. OD. labben to babble.].
To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
lab, n.
- A telltale; a prater; a blabber. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Laboratory. [PJC]
lab, a.
Of or pertaining to a laboratory; as, a lab bench. [PJC]
ROGET THESAURUS
lab
Workshop
N workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business, manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory, cabinet, studio, office, branch office bureau, atelier, hive, hive of industry, nursery, hothouse, hotbed, kitchen, mint, forge, loom, dock, dockyard, alveary, armory, laboratory, lab, research institute, refinery, cannery, power plant, beauty parlor, beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf, foundry, foundery, furnace, vineyard, crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix, at work, at the office, at the shop, working.
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