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Definition: Laboratory |
LaboratoryNoun1. A workplace for the conduct of scientific research. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "laboratory" was first used: 1605. (references) |
Etymology: Laboratory \Lab"o*ra*to*ry\, noun; plural Laboratories. [Shortened from elaboratory; compare to Old French elaboratoire, French laboratoire. See Elaborate, Labor.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of being in a laboratory, denotes great energies wasted in unfruitful enterprises when you might succeed in some more practical business. If you think yourself an alchemist, and try to discover a process to turn other things into gold, you will entertain far-reaching and interesting projects, but you will fail to reach the apex of your ambition. Wealth will prove a myth, and the woman you love will hold a false position towards you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mining | In the iron and steel industry, the space between the fire and flue bridges of a reverberatory furnace in which the work is performed. Alsocalled "kitchen and hearth.". (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A laboratory (often abbreviated lab) is a place where scientific research and experiments are conducted.The equipment in a laboratory will depend on what the lab is used for. Chemistry and biochemistry laboratories will have a lot of glassware and dry chemicals available to prepare buffers and other reagents. They will usually have fumehoods, in which volatile substances, and chemicals that produce poisonous gases can be handled, without risk of inhaling the gas.
Microbiology laboratories also have cabinets with negative pressure to prevent the breathing in of harmful bacteria. These will often pass the air through a number of filters, then pump it back into the room.
Other common laboratory equipment includes centrifuges to remove solid particles from a liquid, spectrophotometers to accurately measure the optical absorbance of a liquid and a particular wavelength (measure its colour), and water baths that maintain a substance at a particular temperature.
Laboratories designed for processing specimens, such as environmental research or medical laboratories will have specialised machinery (automated analysers) designed to process many samples and numerous tests. Research and experimentation is not a priority in these laboratories; the aim is to give a fast and reliable result.
Biochemistry laboratory at the University of Cologne.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Laboratory."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| lab | English | Laboratory | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: LaboratorySynonyms: lab (n), research lab (n), research laboratory (n), science lab (n), science laboratory (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Refrigerator | Noun: refrigerator, refrigeratory; frigidarium; cold storage, cold room, cold laboratory; icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox; cooler, damper, polyurethane cooler; wine cooler. |
Workshop | Hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory, lab, refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery; furnace; vineyard. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | In this laboratory there is no death until I declare it so. (I Was a Teenage Frankenstein; writing credit: Herman Cohen; Aben Kandel) To get us to the laboratory! (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder) Quickly, to the laboratory! (Dexter's Laboratory; writing credit: Michael Merton) She's right at the laboratory! (Buzz Lightyear of Star Command; writing credit: Nick Dubois; Greg Weisman) You're very lucky to be invited up to Frank's laboratory. Some people would give their right arm for the privilege (The Rocky Horror Picture Show; writing credit: Richard O'Brien; Jim Sharman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Laboratory Study (1901) Marvin and Casler's Laboratory (1900) Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (1897) Inside Q's Laboratory (2000) Dexter's Laboratory (1996) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dr. Joseph Goldberger conducted the first nutritional research by the Hygienic Laboratory on Staten Island in 1914. He discovered that Pellagra, a disease that caused red and scaly skin, diarrhea, depression and insanity, was caused by vitamin deficiencies. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | In 1887, 27 year old Dr. Joseph Kinyoun set up his one person laboratory of hygiene to research cholera and other communicable diseases such as diphtheria, typhoid, small pox, typhus, plague and tuberculosis. This was the birth of NIH in a small attic room in the Marine Hospital in the village of Stapleton on Staten Island, New York. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Transfer of virus solution, in this case an acute hemorrhagic fever pathogen, within a containment cabinet in maximum containment laboratory. Credit: CDC. |  | This CDC lab technician is carrying out AIDS research during 1988 laboratory studies. Credit: CDC. |
 | Various Rocket Installations at Rocket Laboratory. Credit: NASA. |  | Langley Laboratory Annual Picnic, Buckroe Beach. Credit: NASA. |
 | As seen in Time Magazine (September 7,1998)Sunlight glints off Hurricane Bonnie as it approaches the North Carolinacoast on the morning of August 26, 1998 (07:37 EDT). Data derived fromNOAA-12 satellite. Image produced by Hal Pierce, Laboratory forAtmospheres, NASA Goddard SpaceFlight Center. Credit: NASA. |  | Hurricane Bonnie approaching the Eastern Seaboard of the United States on1998 August 25, as viewed by GOES-8 (GeostationaryOperational Environmental Satellite). Image produced by DennisChesters, Marit Jentoft-Nilsen and Mark Sutton, Laboratory forAtmospheres, NASA Goddard SpaceFlight Center. Credit: NASA. |
 | Oceanographic laboratory on the PIONEER Harley D. Nygren on right On early ocean mapping project - Hawaii to Aleutians. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Portable vans used in lieu of installed laboratory space on many ships Vans on PEIRCE during phosphate studies off North Carolina. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "Labutils" by Kimmo Kuisma Commentary: "A set of glassy laboratory items." |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They are part of his laboratory. |
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Health | Rabies can be confirmed only in a laboratory. (references) | |
In 2000, a laboratory acquired case occurred. (references) | ||
Appropriate laboratory tests may be similarly indicated. (references) | ||
Business | Saudi Arabia does not manufacture medical laboratory instruments. (references) | |
A seven percent tariff is applied to imported medical laboratory equipment. (references) | ||
Participation is highly recommended for foreign laboratory equipment firms. (references) | ||
Children | Somalia | Schools at all levels lack textbooks, laboratory equipment, and running water. (references) |
Economic History | Netherlands | In total 4,500 people are employed in the Dutch Laboratory Instruments sector. (references) |
Kenya | Kenya imports all laboratory scientific instruments; there is no local production. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | On October 3, 2000, Primorye Regional FSB authorities opened a criminal case against Vladimir Shchurov, Director of the Sonar Laboratory of the Pacific Oceanographic Institute. (references) |
Zambia | In 2000 the Government announced its intention to create a national forensic laboratory to provide the police with resources for professional investigations, and it began plans for the laboratory's establishment during the year. (references) | |
Taiwan | Law enforcement agencies remain weak in scientific investigative skills; however, the NPA continued to make efforts to improve its investigative skills, upgrading its crime laboratory technology and training crime scene examiners. (references) | |
Political Economy | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | In 1999, however, the Supreme Court upheld the rights of a foreign patent holder against a local laboratory. (references) |
POLAND | Pharmaceuticals and medical materials are subject to entry in the Register of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Materials, which requires positive results of laboratory tests. (references) | |
Trade | Honduras | However, all samples are subject to laboratory analysis and DFC approval. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Laboratory" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.93% of the time. "Laboratory" is used about 2,699 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.93% | 2,697 | 3,408 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.07% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,699 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Japan Digital Laboratory Co., Ltd. | USA | Laboratory Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "laboratory": Advanced Mobile Analytical Laboratory ♦ biology laboratory ♦ chemical laboratory ♦ chemistry laboratory ♦ Clinical Laboratory Information Systems ♦ Clinical Laboratory Techniques ♦ do laboratory work ♦ human Interface Technology Laboratory ♦ in laboratory ♦ knowledge Systems Laboratory ♦ laboratory animal ♦ Laboratory Animal Science ♦ laboratory bath ♦ laboratory bench ♦ Laboratory Chemicals ♦ laboratory coat ♦ laboratory equipment ♦ Laboratory Infection ♦ laboratory INstrument Computer ♦ Laboratory Manuals [Publication Type] ♦ Laboratory Personnel ♦ laboratory technician ♦ Laboratory Techniques and Procedures ♦ laboratory training ♦ laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench ♦ laboratory work ♦ language laboratory ♦ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ♦ learning laboratory ♦ medical laboratory ♦ mit Research Laboratory for Electronics ♦ mobile air pollution laboratory ♦ National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory ♦ physics laboratory ♦ research laboratory ♦ science laboratory ♦ space laboratory ♦ Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ♦ symbolic Mathematical Laboratory ♦ testing laboratory. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "laboratory": laboratory-based, laboratory-country, laboratory-equipment, laboratory-made, laboratory-oriented, laboratory-reared. | |
Ending with "laboratory": mini-laboratory, non-laboratory, quasi-laboratory. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "laboratory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | amanuensis (laboratory assistent). (various references) | |
Albanian | laboratorik, laborator (lab). (various references) | |
Arabic | مختبر (lab), الحصة المخبرية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | опитен (adept, capable, consummate, empiric, empirical, experienced, experimental, expert, good, grey, old, old hand, perfect, pilot, practised, proficient, ripe, scientific, skilful, skilled, skillful, sophisticated, thorough-paced, versed, veteran, whizbang), лабораторен, лаборатория (lab). (various references) | |
Chinese | 实验室 (lab, Laboratories), 實驗室 . (various references) | |
Czech | laboratoř (lab). (various references) | |
Danish | laboratorium (classing room). (various references) | |
Dutch | laboratorium (classing room). (various references) | |
Esperanto | laboratorio. (various references) | |
Farsi | لابراتوار, ازمایشگاه . (various references) | |
Finnish | laboratorio. (various references) | |
French | laboratoire (lab, path lab). (various references) | |
Frisian | laboratoarium. (various references) | |
German | Laboratorium (classing room), labor (lab). (various references) | |
Greek | εργαστήριο (lab, shop). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מעבדה (lab). (various references) | |
Hungarian | laboratórium (dispensary). (various references) | |
Indonesian | laboratorium. (various references) | |
Italian | laboratorio (lab, shop, workroom, workshop). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 通研 , 試験場 (examination hall), 研究室 (prof's office, seminar room), ラベンダー色 (LA, laboratories, laboratory automation, Lama, Lamaze, language laboratory, lapel, lavender, llama), ラフィア椰子 (lab, label, labeling, love, love affair, love chair, love child, love game, love hotel, love hunt, love juice, love letter, love play, love romance, love seat, love song, love story, love-in, Rachmaninoff, raffia palm, raft, RAPCON, rhapsody, romantic comedy, rough play, rough sketch, rupture disk, soap opera, the forest), 実験室 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ラボラトリー , ラボ (language laboratory), ラブ (lab, love), しけんじょう (examination hall), つうけん, けんきゅうしつ (prof's office, seminar room), じっけんしつ. (various references) | |
Korean | 실험실 (lab, Laboratories). (various references) | |
Manx | seyrlan (studio). (various references) | |
Norwegian | laboratorium. (various references) | |
Papiamen | laboratorio. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aboratorylay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | laboratório (workplace). (various references) | |
Romanian | laborator. (various references) | |
Russian | ванна (bath, bathtub, bath-tub, puddle, tub, vat), лаборатория лабораторный (lab), лаборатория (lab). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | laboratorija (lab). (various references) | |
Spanish | laboratorio (lab). (various references) | |
Swedish | laboratorium. (various references) | |
Thai | ห้องปฏิบัติการ. (various references) | |
Turkish | laboratuvar (lab). (various references) | |
Turkmen | laboratoriяa (r). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лабораторія (lab). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phòng thí nghiệm (lab). (various references) | |
Welsh | labordy. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Labo, Labor, laborare, Laboratorium. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | laboratorium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Laboratory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aboratory, elaboratory, labaratory, laberatory, laboratery, laboratorie, laboratort, laboritory, Labortory, labratory, lavorato, lavoratory, liberatory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "laboratory" (pronounced la"brutô'rē) |
| 7 | -b r u t ô' r ē | celebratory. |
| 6 | -r u t ô' r ē | declaratory, excretory, expiratory, exploratory, migratory, oratory, preparatory, territory. |
| 5 | -u t ô' r ē | accusatory, aleatory, ambulatory, anticipatory, articulatory, auditory, circulatory, compensatory, conciliatory, confirmatory, confiscatory, congratulatory, contributory, defamatory, depilatory, depository, derogatory, dilatory, discriminatory, laudatory, lavatory, dormitory, exculpatory, explanatory, hallucinatory, incantatory, inflammatory, inhibitory, interrogatory, investigatory, mandatory, nondiscriminatory, obligatory, observatory, oscillatory, participatory, predatory, prohibitory, purgatory, reformatory, regulatory, repository, respiratory, retaliatory, revelatory, signatory, statutory, transitory. |
| 4 | -t ô' r ē | desultory, multistory, repertory, understory. |
| 3 | -ô' r ē | allegory, category, outlawry, promissory. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-l-o-o-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: oblatory. | |
-3 letters: oratory, ratably, robotry. | |
-4 letters: abator, aboral, aortal, arroba, arroyo, baryta, orator, rabato, robalo, rotary. | |
-5 letters: abort, alary, altar, aorta, arbor, array, artal, bloat, boart, bolar, booty, boral, borty, boyar, boyla, labor, labra, lobar, looby, lorry, lyart, rabat, ratal, robot, rooty, rotor, royal, tabla, taboo, tabor, talar, tarry, tolar. | |
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