lab

¹ American  

[lab] / læb /

noun

1. laboratory.

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Lab ² American  

[lab] / læb /

noun

1. Informal. Labrador retriever.

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LAB ³ American  

Or lab

abbreviation

Slang.

1. life’s a bitch (used to acknowledge, often dismissively, a difficult or unfair circumstance).

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lab. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. labor.

2. laboratory.

3. laborer.

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Lab. ⁵ American  

abbreviation

1. Laborite.

2. Labrador.

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Lab. ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. politics Labour

2. Labrador

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lab ² British  

/ læb /

noun

1. short for laboratory

2. short for Labrador retriever

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lab. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. laboratory

2. labour

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Etymology

Origin of lab¹

By shortening

Origin of Lab²

By shortening

Origin of LAB³

From its use in digital communications

Example Sentences

The lab went looking for a filmmaker it could trust and found Kohs.

From The Wall Street Journal

As AI labs obsess over the amount of time people spend with their products, chatbots have become ferociously needy people pleasers.

From The Wall Street Journal

“While we believe AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI will play a critical role in bringing AI into the enterprise, we believe the fears of broad disruption to software vendors are largely overstated.”

From Barron's

He acknowledged that while AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI could bring some level of disruption to enterprise software,” this does not justify the broad-based indiscriminate selling we are seeing across the sector.”

From MarketWatch

“It was more of a box that is used for an engineering lab, not a tool for general purpose. I said, ‘Why did I buy this?’

From The Wall Street Journal

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