Laboratory
[lə'bɒrə,t(ə)rɪ;'læb(ə)rə,t(ə)rɪ] or ['læbrə'tɔri]
Definition
(n.) The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
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Definition
n. a chemist's workroom: a place where scientific experiments are systematically carried on: a place for the manufacture of arms and war material: a place where anything is prepared for use.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
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.
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Examples
- Soon after my arrival in the hovel, I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Always at hand will be found one or two of the laboratory note-books, with frequent entries or comments in the handwriting which once seen is never forgotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This had been going on more than five months, seven days a week, when I was called down to the laboratory to see him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We have used for a number of years in this laboratory a form of constant water bath which was contrived by Mr. Edward Bogardus, formerly chemist to the New Jersey State Geological Survey. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Science was valid, art was valid, the poorest grubber in a laboratory was engaged in a real labor, anyone who had found expression in some beautiful object was truly centered. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But to suppose that the remedy lies in waiting for monographs from the research of the laboratory is to have lost a sense of the rhythm of actual affairs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He had the grand dining-room for his laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- When evening came on, and the last rays of the setting sun penetrated through the side windows, this hall looked like a veritable Faust laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The routine was very much the same as that at the laboratory, in its utter neglect of the clock. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- After that exhibition we had a house-cleaning at the laboratory, and the metallic-filament lamps were stored away, while preparations were made for our experiments on carbon lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Education is the laboratory in which philosophic distinctions become concrete and are tested. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Omitting the laboratory structures, it had only about seven houses, the best looking of which Edison lived in, a place that had a windmill pumping water into a reservoir. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Two or three of the houses were occupied by the families of members of the staff; in the others boarders were taken, the laboratory, of course, furnishing all the patrons. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There was plenty of leisure on the two daily runs, even for an industrious boy, and thus he found time to transfer his laboratory from the cellar and re-establish it on the train. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I think it was to Tyndall's laboratory in Burlington Street. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The laboratories in such works differ from those in the universities only in being more perfectly equipped, and more sumptuously appointed. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Half the men in our scientific laboratories still dream of patents and secret processes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had left his factory in Newark in charge of a capable superintendent, and moved his own laboratories to Menlo Park, a quiet place about twenty-five miles from Newark. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In the cellar of the Edison homestead young Alva soon accumulated a chemical outfit, constituting the first in a long series of laboratories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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