What's the difference between lab and lax?

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.

Lax


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber.
  • (v. t.) Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal.
  • (v. t.) Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
  • (n.) A looseness; diarrhea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (2) These blood flow and temperature changes also occurred when ELV animals were subjected to simultaneous LAX.
  • (3) The universal credit scheme has been overseen by "alarmingly weak" management, with systems so lax that a secretary was allowed to authorise purchase orders worth £23m , according to the public accounts committee.
  • (4) Approximately 27% of the individuals had 1 lax joint, whereas only 3% possessed all 5 features.
  • (5) Traders, enabled by lax futures regulations, are perhaps the only people to see the bright side of the beating sun.
  • (6) The retracted lower eyelid is tight in contrast to the lax lower eyelid of the common involutional ectropion.
  • (7) Roundish cells, appearing to be myofibroblasts surrounded by a more lax connective tissue and elastic fibers, were found close to the Dacron threads.
  • (8) Although only flights to Sharm have been suspended, there is worry about Egyptian airports in general over alleged lax screening amid heightened fears over terrorism, a security source said.
  • (9) The coroner cited "inadequate" training and "lax" supervision as factors in the tragedies.
  • (10) These include eyelid laxity with or without atrophic orbicularis muscle tone, lax canthal tendons, hypoplastic malar eminences, unrecognized Graves' ophthalmopathy, unilateral high myopia, or the secondary blepharoplasty.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump comments on death of Dwyane Wade’s cousin – video Welcome to Iowa, where Trump's purple patch could turn a blue state red Read more Pence rejected a suggestion by CNN host Jake Tapper that lax gun safety laws in his own state, Indiana, may be stoking violence in Chicago.
  • (12) Obama administration officials had promised to toughen the lax environmental regulations of the George Bush era.
  • (13) This decade, on the other hand, has been relatively lax when it comes to pumping out neuron-destroying musical inanity.
  • (14) The apparently lax oversight of the company's financial regime by the energy regulator was heavily criticised last week by Tim Yeo, the former chairman of parliament's energy and climate change committee.
  • (15) The examination of parental attitude in dealing with the possibility of accidents (instructive, lax or repressive) did not allow us to demonstrate in any significant way the influence of these attitudes on accidental morbidity.
  • (16) To date, they have been too lax, and moved too slowly, allowing racists a free rein.” Cooper called on “companies like Twitter to take stronger action against hate crimes on their platforms”.
  • (17) All emergency department, LAX first-aid station, and paramedic records were examined.
  • (18) Why so tough on skilled migrants and so lax on boat arrivals?
  • (19) Analysts have for years been complaining about what they believe to be lax accounting standards in Britain's travel industry, where one-off write-offs are not uncommon.
  • (20) In order to address those concerns the two companies gave up gate slots and takeoffs at major US airports including Washington DC’s Reagan national, New York’s LaGuardia, Boston's Logan and LAX in Los Angeles.

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