What's the difference between blab and lab?

Blab


Definition:

  • (v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
  • (v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.
  • (n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The frequency of antigen-reactive NAbs was about half the frequency of antigen-reactive antibodies found among the BlAbs.
  • (2) "In the UK, producers tell you not to get drunk and blab the EastEnders storylines in the pub," says Shekoni.
  • (3) Guy-Man points out that, after all, they have not got this far by blabbing about their plans.
  • (4) Anyway, this is only a minor indiscretion, compared to some of the blabbing I've done, even when I've been trying very hard not to.
  • (5) I once blabbed about Z's boyfriend, in front of her other boyfriend, even though, as I entered the room, I was reminding myself that I must on no account, mention A's name in front of B.
  • (6) The second I come across a familiar person I find myself blabbing about it.
  • (7) 'These are delicate security matters which are also politically sensitive, so I am appalled that Mo Mowlam has seen fit to blab on a television chat show.
  • (8) It really tore me up, because I didn’t want to blab my side of the story, and I haven’t and I still won’t, out of respect for Angel and out of respect I still have for him.
  • (9) But what is striking is the absolute understanding of the ITV 29 that they must not blab.
  • (10) Jesse's there, still blabbing on about books, proving that the key to a good one-night stand is leaving very quickly afterwards.
  • (11) Monospecific as well as multireactive HEL-binding BlAbs were found at frequencies comparable to other protein antigens in the panel, and HEL-reactive NAbs were also present.
  • (12) Photograph: Graham Parker Healey works well with Twellman – the former player is emphatic when he does speak but as he says, "One of the things I want to to do as a game analyst is to not overstep my mark with the play by play guy, and I've learned that by watching a lot of the EPL type announcers, where that analysts doesn't talk a lot – and when he does it's short, sweet and to the point, and they try not to blab on and on about something."
  • (13) "I just had to respond to the comment from Chris Roberts in the 49th minute, who seems to think that it is some sort of character flaw in Americans to complain when our team has been robbed," blabs Steven Vaughan.
  • (14) But after his alleged blabbing of highly classified intelligence to the Russians, Trump can now lay claim to the greatest superlative of any sitting president: he is the biggest bozo of them all.
  • (15) Four Trypanosoma cruzi strains from zymodemes A, B, C and D were successively cloned on BHI-LIT-agar-blood (BLAB).
  • (16) Over half of the IgM-secreting BlAbs produced antibodies that were antigen-reactive; of these, over half were multireactive, i.e.
  • (17) However, over half of the antigen-reactive NAbs were also multireactive, and the reactivity profile within the antigen-reactive subset of NAbs was similar to that within the antigen-reactive subset of BlAbs.
  • (18) By 1963, media allegations that Profumo had fallen into a honey trap in which Keeler was manipulated by her osteopath friend Stephen Ward (damned by hacks as a reckless libertine with MI5 and Kremlin contacts) into luring her Tory lover to blab nuclear secrets that were passed on to the Kremlin became so nearly ubiquitous that the minister felt compelled to make a statement to the House.
  • (19) He was just blabbing away, like ‘Oh, you think you’re a smart-ass,’ this and that.
  • (20) Mavis blabbed in front of my mother that my then partner was about to move in with us, before I'd told her myself.

Lab


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab.
  • (n.) A telltale; a prater; a blabber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (2) Labs that produce new legal highs use the simple expedient of giving them to their mates to test.
  • (3) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
  • (4) Urine specimens from 93 selected subjects were run by fluorescence polarization immunoassay on the Abbott TDx; by enzyme multiplied immunoassay with two Syva EMIT assays; and by thin-layer chromatography with the TOXI-LAB system (Marion Laboratories).
  • (5) This paper is a report on a one year-automatic management of the Clinical Lab.
  • (6) It appears likely to argue that it has already taken steps to deal with coaches and lab technicians who transgressed and insist that there is not enough evidence for Russia to be suspended.
  • (7) The numbers of spoilage micro-organisms increased throughout storage at 8 degrees C. Carrots macerated in a Stomacher Lab Blender also showed an antilisterial activity which resulted in a decrease in number of viable bacteria and in sublethal damage.
  • (8) Positive DST and normal EEG were exhibited in lab tests.
  • (9) Following the last model’s disappearance backstage, Galliano appeared briefly in front of the audience and bobbed a blink-and-you-missed-it bow, dressed in the white lab coat that is the uniform of the Maison Margiela label for whom he now designs.
  • (10) For a decade, relatively little methamphetamine was submitted to street-drug analytical labs.
  • (11) This time around, the DEA has not yet targeted a single lab in Mexico responsible for the epidemic in New England, said Desmond.
  • (12) In conclusion, it was not possible from the Than to determine the maximal [lab] steady state for each subject.
  • (13) The following day subjects returned to the lab and completed a 24-h recall of their food intake.
  • (14) A group convened by the WHO recommended full disclosure, but ordered an urgent review of the security and safety of labs where such viruses are stored.
  • (15) We’re prepared to inform international society about the steps we’re taking, the investigation, the decisions.” Pound’s report, commissioned in the wake of a devastating documentary by the German journalist Hajo Seppelt for ARD in December last year, outlined systemic cheating on a grand scale including a second “shadow lab” that was used to screen samples, anti-doping labs infiltrated by secret service agents and positive tests covered up for cash.
  • (16) In addition, we also report the effects of ectopic expression of the homeotic genes labial (lab), Deformed (Dfd), Scr, Antp or Ubx on the normal development of sensory organs in the embryonic PNS.
  • (17) It has already been approved for medical uses and put on trial in Motorola's labs.
  • (18) Data processing was performed by a new program, designated ZWEIDI.DO, written in the language of M-LAB (modeling laboratory).
  • (19) Eight subjects were kept awake and active overnight in a sleep lab isolated from environmental time cues.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Pokémon brand alone will probably be able to get many to give Pokémon Go a try Photograph: Niantic Labs “You know what the mobile gaming experience is like in a phone today, and we’ve all seen the videos from Magic Leap, at the far end of the spectrum, where we put on these magic glasses and our world is transformed.

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