Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Laborador retriever.
- noun A laboratory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To blab; babble; tattle.
- To blab.
- noun A blabber; a tattler; a telltale.
- noun An abbreviation
- noun of Labrador;
- noun of laboratory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.
- adjective colloq. Of or pertaining to a laboratory.
- noun obsolete A telltale; a prater; a blabber.
- noun colloq. Laboratory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
telltale ; ablabber . - noun colloquial A
laboratory - noun colloquial A
Labrador retriever
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
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Examples
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I believe a lab is a utility dog that with some simple obedience and more advanced training you could teach them to do almost anything.
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My time in graduate school confirmed my opinion that the lab is a haven.
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Both are great dogs, but the lab is a "lower maintenance" dog.
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I believe a lab is a utility dog that with some simple obedience and more advanced training you could teach them to do almost anything.
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Sue Anne, Green Bank's fabulous outreach and communications officer, noticed that we Charlottsville ladies (our lab is also mostly female!) were on site and asked if we'd be able to show the girls what we do.
Marking the PAPER Trail Nicole 2009
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LAB. my lab is always barking whenever someone walks to the door and they are a great retrieving dog. they can retrieve anything from quail to goose. you can also train them to flush groups of birds. all in all great breed.
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Both are great dogs, but the lab is a "lower maintenance" dog.
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LAB. my lab is always barking whenever someone walks to the door and they are a great retrieving dog. they can retrieve anything from quail to goose. you can also train them to flush groups of birds. all in all great breed.
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Sue Anne, Green Bank's fabulous outreach and communications officer, noticed that we Charlottsville ladies (our lab is also mostly female!) were on site and asked if we'd be able to show the girls what we do.
Archive 2009-03-12 Nicole 2009
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And my gift to the lab is an ornery personality and chocolate chip cookies every other Wednesday.
Science Like No Other Candid Engineer 2008
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