different between lab vs room

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

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?u?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?um/
• (UK, New England, Tidewater) IPA^(key): /??m/
• Rhymes: -u?m, -?m
• Homophone: rheum

Etymology 1

From Middle English roum, from Old English r?m (“room, space”), from Proto-Germanic *r?m? (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *row?- (“free space”). Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruimte (“space”) and Dutch ruim (“cargo load”), German Raum (“space, interior space”), Danish rum (“space, locality”), Norwegian rom (“space”), Swedish rum (“space, location”), and also with Latin r?s (“country, field, farm”) through Indo-European. More at rural.

It is ostensibly an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /?a?m/, but /a?/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.

Noun

room (countable and uncountable, plural rooms)

1. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something). [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts I:

     Thou lorde whiche knowest the hertes of all men, shewe whether thou hast chosen of these two, that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion, and apostleshippe from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he myght goo to his awne place.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:

     Nor shalt thou give me room to doubt whether it be necessity or love, that inspires this condescending impulse.

2. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity. [from 10th c.]
   • 2010, Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian, 27 Aug 2010:

     He explains they have enough room to stand and lie down, points out the "little cup to brush our teeth", and the place where they pray.

3. (archaic) A particular portion of space. [from 11th c.]
   • 1614, Thomas Overbury, Characters

     If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.

   • When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room.

4. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something. [from 15th c.]
   • 2010, Roger Bootle, The Telegraph, 12 Sep 2010:

     There are major disagreements within the Coalition and politicians always want to retain room for manoeuvre.

5. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. [from 15th c.]
6. (obsolete) Place; stead.
7. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. [from 15th c.]
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room.
8. (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
9. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings. [from 17th c.]
10. (usually in the singular, metonymically) The people in a room. [from 17th c.]

    He was good at reading rooms.

    It was fun to watch her work the room.

11. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine. [from 17th c.]
12. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. [from 17th c.]
13. (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room. [from 20th c.]

14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.

    • When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.

    • 1848, Henry Walter (editor), William Tyndale (original author), Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures

      Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
15. A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
    • 1985, August Wilson, Fences

      “I understand you need some furniture and can’t get no credit.” I liked to fell over. He say, “I’ll give you all the credit you want, but you got to pay the interest on it.” I told him, “Give me three rooms worth and charge whatever you want.”

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:room.

Synonyms

• (space): elbow room, legroom, space
• (part of a building): chamber, quarters
• (part of a cave): chamber
• rm
• See also Thesaurus:room

Hyponyms

Meronyms

• walls
• windows
• doors
• furniture
• wall sockets
• switches
• light fixtures
• appliances

Holonyms

• house
• building
• structure
• apartment
• home
• flat
• hotel
• hospital

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?mu)
• ? Kikuyu: rumu

Translations

Verb

room (third-person singular simple present rooms, present participle rooming, simple past and past participle roomed)

1. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

   Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.

2. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English r?m (“roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, large, open, unencumbered, unoccupied, temporal, long, extended, great, liberal, unrestricted, unfettered, clear, loose, free from conditions, free from occupation, not restrained within due limits, lax, far-reaching, abundant, noble, august”), from Proto-Germanic *r?maz (“roomy, spacious”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh?- (“free space”). Cognate with Scots roum (“spacious, roomy”), Dutch ruim (“roomy, spacious, wide”), Danish rum (“wide, spacious”), German raum (“wide”), Icelandic rúmur (“spacious”).

Adjective

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

From Middle English rome, from Old English r?me (“widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensively, amply, abundantly, in a high degree, without restriction or encumbrance, without the pressure of care, light-heartedly, without obstruction, plainly, clearly, in detail”). Cognate with Dutch ruim (“amply”, adverb).

Adverb

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
2. (nautical) Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

Noun

room (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”)

Further reading

• room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• room at OneLook Dictionary Search
• room in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Moor, Moro, Romo, moor

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch room, from Middle Dutch rôme, from Old Dutch *r?m, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r???m/

Noun

room (uncountable)

1. cream

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rôme, from Old Dutch *r?m, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?m/
• Hyphenation: room
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

room m (uncountable)

1. cream (of milk)

Derived terms

• afromen
• ontromen
• roomboter
• roomijs
• roomsaus
• slagroom

Descendants

• Afrikaans: room

Anagrams

• moor