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Lab vs Lac - What's the difference?

lab | lac |

As nouns the difference between lab and lac

is that lab is a laboratory while lac is a resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped insect.

As an abbreviation Lab

is labrador a breed of dog.

lab

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial) A laboratory
  • (colloquial) A Labrador retriever
    • Derived terms
    * lab rat

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.
    • (Chaucer)

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    lac

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m) from (etyl) .

    Noun

  • A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree by the female of Coccus lacca , a scale-shaped insect.
    • Derived terms
    * Ceylon lac * lac dye * lac lake * Mexican lac * seedlac * shellac * sticklac

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * lakh

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One hundred thousand (commonly used in Pakistan and India).

    • Etymology 3

    From Cadillac.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) Short for Cadillac.
    • Last night I was driving around in my lac .
  • * 1992 , Big Mello, Bone Hard Zaggin , Rap-A-Lot Records, track 5. "Mac's Drive 'Lac's"
    • Macs drive lacs .

    Synonyms

    * (Cadillac) caddie, caddy

    Anagrams

    * * * English terms derived from Hindi English terms derived from Persian English terms derived from Urdu ----