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Lab Coat

Definition: Lab Coat

Lab Coat

Noun

1. A light coat worn to protect clothing from substances used while working in a laboratory.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Lab Coat

Synonym: laboratory coat (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Lab Coat

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Yes I did. At first I just threw it away, but then I thought, that's not grand enough a gesture; so I made a model of you out of straw, put my lab coat on it - with your memo in the pocket - and invited the neighborhood kids to set fire to it. (Scrubs; writing credit: Gabrielle Allan; Janae Bakken)

My maker was some geek in a lab coat with an eyedropper and a petri dish. (Space: Above and Beyond; writing credit: Mark Shirrefs; John J. Thomson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lab Coat

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lab Coat

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lab coat

419

industrial lab coat

29

medical lab coat

24

disposable lab coat

10

landau lab coat

8

white lab coat

8

lab coat and meta

8

angelica lab coat

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lab Coat

Language Translations for "lab coat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

laborköpeny. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ablay oatcay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Lab Coat

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-l-o-t"

-1 letter: catalo, cobalt.

-2 letters: bloat, cabal, coala, octal, tabla.

-3 letters: acta, alba, alto, baal, blat, bloc, blot, boat, bola, bolt, bota, calo, clot, coal, coat, cola, colt, loca, lota, taco, tala, talc, tola.

-4 letters: aal, aba, abo, act, ala, alb, alt, baa, bal, bat, boa, bot, cab, cat, cob, col, cot, lab, lac, lat, lob, lot, oat, oca, tab, tao.

-5 letters: aa, ab, al, at, ba, bo, la, lo, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-l-o-t"
 

+2 letters: bicoastal, botanical, catabolic, locatable.

 

+3 letters: actionable, actionably, botanicals, calibrator, catabolism, catabolite, catabolize, colobomata, factorable, outbalance.

 

+4 letters: abiotically, accountable, accountably, allocatable, botanically, calibration, calibrators, carboxylate, catabolisms, catabolites, catabolized, catabolizes, collaborate, confabulate, containable, outbalanced, outbalances, relocatable, saltimbocca.

 

+5 letters: calibrations, carboxylated, carboxylates, catabolizing, collaborated, collaborates, collaborator, confabulated, confabulates, confabulator, constabulary, contrastable, correlatable, forecastable, geobotanical, lactobacilli, nonbacterial, oblanceolate, outbalancing, paleobotanic, saltimboccas, sanctionable, secobarbital.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Lab Coat


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 61 62      43 6F 61 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100001 01100010 00100000 01000011 01101111 01100001 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#97 &#98 &#32 &#67 &#111 &#97 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0061 0062      0043 006F 0061 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

466768237816786

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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