In Britain, Lab is the written abbreviation for labour.
...Diane Abbott (Lab , Hackney North and Stoke Newington).
lab in British English
(læb)
noun informal
1.
short for laboratory
2.
short for Labrador retriever
lab. in British English
abbreviation for
1.
laboratory
2.
labour
Lab. in British English
abbreviation for
1. politics
Labour
2.
Labrador
Lab in American English1
noun
Labrador retriever
Lab in American English2
Labrador
lab in American English
(læb)
noun
Informal
a laboratory
Examples of 'lab' in a sentence
lab
He became a lab technician for Technicolor and worked his way up.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A further 120 million to nurture the tech transfer offices that put universities and entrepreneurs together to move the science from the lab to the factory.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
When she lost her job as a hospital lab technician she struggled to meet the repayments.
The Sun (2012)
They are as boring as lab rats.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Then write the procedure for assembly in the lab notebook.
Porush, David A Short Guide to Writing About Science (1995)
They shunned such formalities as lab coats.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He notes this curiosity or anomaly in the lab notebook.
Porush, David A Short Guide to Writing About Science (1995)
That does not just mean jobs for people in white coats in labs.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Not all lab reports must follow this precise outline.
Porush, David A Short Guide to Writing About Science (1995)
The lab rats have accepted the new reality.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Both should be recorded in your lab notebook.
Porush, David A Short Guide to Writing About Science (1995)
It opens with a doctor in a white lab coat.
Christianity Today (2000)
Aliens have been using them and their two sons as glorified lab rats.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The lab report builds solidly on the work and writing you have already done in the lab notebook.
Porush, David A Short Guide to Writing About Science (1995)
She moved her bed into the attic to provide more space and turned the laundry into a science lab.
The Sun (2006)
He should also visit a forensic science lab to see the marvellous work they do in solving crime while underfunded and undervalued.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The rest was put aside for the refurbishment of a science lab with equipment costing 70,000.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The effect was not elegant: think lab technician in customised goggles.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The atmosphere is more space-age spa than science lab.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
At this stage, our lab technicians would chuckle.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Since the lab notebook is handwritten "on the fly, "there is little chance for editing.
Porush, David A Short Guide to Writing About Science (1995)
A lab assistant at a hearing aid manufacturer invents a device that you plug in to your ear and that talks to you.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I was a lab assistant and weighed just 7st 3lb.
The Sun (2008)
In other languages
lab
British English: lab /læb/ NOUN
A lab is a building or room when scientific experiments and research are performed.
American English: lab
Arabic: مُخْتَبَرٌ
Brazilian Portuguese: laboratório
Chinese: 实验室
Croatian: laboratorij
Czech: laboratoř
Danish: laboratorium
Dutch: lab
European Spanish: laboratorio abreviatura
Finnish: laboratorio
French: labo
German: Labor
Greek: επιστημονικό εργαστήριο
Italian: laboratorio
Japanese: ラボ
Korean: 실험실
Norwegian: lab
Polish: laboratorium
European Portuguese: laboratório
Romanian: laborator
Russian: лаборатория
Latin American Spanish: laboratorio
Swedish: labb
Thai: ตัวย่อของห้องทดลองทางวิทยาศาสตร์
Turkish: laboratuvar
Ukrainian: лабораторія
Vietnamese: phòng thí nghiệm
All related terms of 'lab'
Labrador retriever
a powerfully-built variety of retriever with a short dense usually black or golden-brown coat
Lib-Lab
characterizing cooperation between the Liberal and the Labour party in the UK in the 20th century
lab book
a notebook used to note down experiments , hypotheses , etc, of the kind that may be carried out or formed in a laboratory
lab coat
a lightweight , usually white coat, worn to protect clothing when working in a laboratory
path lab
pathology laboratory
Nfld & Lab
Newfoundland and Labrador
lab technician
→ another name for laboratory technician
liblab
of or relating to a coalition of liberal and labor groups, especially in politics
minilab
a machine that processes photographic film
language laboratory
A language laboratory is a classroom equipped with tape recorders or computers where people can practise listening to and talking foreign languages.