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Webster 1913 Edition


lab

lab

,
Noun.
1.
A telltale; a prater; a blabber.
[Obs.]
“I am no lab.”
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Lab

LAB

,
Noun.
a great talker; a blabber. Obs.

Definition 2024


Lab

Lab

See also: lab, LAB, láb, lǟb, and Lab.

English

Noun

Lab (plural Labs)

  1. Labrador (a breed of dog)

Proper noun

Lab

  1. (Britain, politics) Labour

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German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lap/
  • Rhymes: -aːp

Noun

Lab n (genitive Labs, plural Labe)

  1. rennet

lab

lab

See also: Lab, LAB, láb, lǟb, and Lab.

English

Noun

lab (plural labs)

  1. (colloquial) A laboratory.
    • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)
      A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
  2. (colloquial) A Labrador retriever.
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Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

lab (plural labs)

  1. (obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

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Albanian

Etymology

Unclear. Historically the inhabitants of the Labëria region. Compare Labeati [1], maybe ultimately related to words like lëbozë and lëpe. Alternatively, could also be metathesized form of *alban, possibly through a Slavic dialect (cf. arbën ~ Serbo-Croatian raban 'Albanian').

Proper noun

lab ?

  1. southern Albanian
Related terms

References

  1. Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992, ISBN 0-631-19807-5, page 172, "...area, including Oaneum on a river Aratus, which controlled the route leading west to the kingdom of Gentius among the Labeates around Vlora (Valona)here is in real the Labeates not in Shkodra,this part these pieces of land are called again today Labëria (Labeati)."

Danish

Noun

lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)

  1. paw

Inflection

Verb

lab

  1. imperative of labbe

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Short for laboratorium

Noun

lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)

  1. (Netherlands) lab

Lojban

Rafsi

lab

  1. rafsi of blabi.