different between diagnosis vs lab

English

Etymology

From Latin diagn?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágn?sis), from ??????????? (diagign?sk?, “to discern”), from ??? (diá, “through”) + ???????? (gign?sk?, “to know”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da????n??s?s/

Noun

diagnosis (countable and uncountable, plural diagnoses)

1. (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
2. The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).
   • 1887, Charles L. Reade and Compton Reade, Charles Reade, Dramatist, Novelist, Journalist: A Memoir

     The quick eye for effects, the clear diagnosis of men's minds, and the love of epigram.

   • 1887, James Payn, Glow-worm tales

     My diagnosis of his character proved correct.

3. (taxonomy) A written description of a species or other taxon serving to distinguish that species from all others. Especially, a description written in Latin and published.

Derived terms

Related terms

• diagnose
• diagnostic
• diagnostics

Translations

Verb

diagnosis

1. (nonstandard) Synonym of diagnose
   • 2013, Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

Further reading

• diagnosis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• diagnosis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• diagnosis at OneLook Dictionary Search

Indonesian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin diagn?sis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diágn?sis), from ??????????? (diagign?sk?, “to discern”), from ??? (diá, “through”) + ???????? (gign?sk?, “to know”). Doublet of diagnosa and diagnose.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dia??nos?s]
• Hyphenation: di?ag?no?sis

Noun

diagnosis (plural diagnosis-diagnosis, first-person possessive diagnosisku, second-person possessive diagnosismu, third-person possessive diagnosisnya)

1. diagnosis:
   1. (medicine) The identification of the nature and cause of an illness.
   2. The identification of the nature and cause of something (of any nature).

Alternative forms

• diagnosa
• diagnose

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “diagnosis” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -osis

Noun

diagnosis f (plural diagnosis)

1. diagnosis

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /læb/
• Rhymes: -æb

Etymology 1

Noun

lab (plural labs)

1. (colloquial) A laboratory.
   • 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth (page 23)

     A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.

2. (colloquial, chiefly in the plural) Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.

Derived terms

• lab coat
• lab rat

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

lab (plural labs)

1. (colloquial) A Labrador retriever.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

lab (plural labs)

1. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Anagrams

• Alb., BAL, BLA, abl., alb

Albanian

Etymology

• From lëpe, lëbozë. Historically the inhabitants of the Labëria (“the land of lab”) region. Compare Illyrian *Labeati.

• Alternatively a back-formation based on Labëri (“Laberia”), borrowed from an unattested South Slavic *laban?ja < *olban?ja, rendering the native pre-Albanian name of the country; Albania, ??????? (Albanía). However, this is doubtful.

Noun

lab m (labe, f.)

1. southern Albanian (male)

   (male person from Labëri (“land of lab”), Labëria (“the land of lab”))

Related terms

• Labëri
• Labëria
• labërisht
• Labërishtja
• arbër

References

Danish

Noun

lab c (singular definite labben, plural indefinite labber)

1. paw

Inflection

Verb

lab

1. imperative of labbe

Dutch

Alternative forms

• labo

Etymology

Short for laboratorium

Pronunciation

Noun

lab n (plural labs, diminutive labje n)

1. (Netherlands) lab

Spanish

Noun

lab m (plural labs)

1. lab (laboratory)

Zhuang

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /la?p?/
• Tone numbers: lab⁸
• Hyphenation: lab

Etymology 1

From Chinese ? (MC l?p?, “wax; candle”).

Noun

lab (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography lab)

1. candle

Etymology 2

From Chinese ? (MC l?p?, “cured meat”).

Verb

lab (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography lab)

1. to cure (meat) by drying or smoking

Adjective

lab (Sawndip forms ? or ?, old orthography lab)

1. cured; dried; smoked