"lab" meaning in English

See lab in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /læb/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lab.wav [Southern-England] Forms: labs [plural]
Rhymes: -æb Head templates: {{en-noun}} lab (plural labs)
  1. (colloquial) A laboratory. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-lab-en-noun-ncTSefow
  2. (colloquial) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-lab-en-noun-6qt-oLR3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun

IPA: /læb/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lab.wav [Southern-England] Forms: labs [plural]
Rhymes: -æb Head templates: {{en-noun}} lab (plural labs)
  1. (colloquial) A Labrador retriever. Tags: colloquial Categories (lifeform): Dogs Derived forms: choco lab Translations (Labrador retriever): labbis (Finnish), labukka (Finnish), labradori (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-lab-en-noun-lPUet1XU Disambiguation of Dogs: 2 11 88 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 19 79 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 2 20 78 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 1 14 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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