Laboratory vs. Workshop — What's the Difference?

A laboratory (UK: , US: ; colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. Laboratory services are provided in a variety of settings: physicians' offices, clinics, hospitals, and regional and national referral centers.

Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods. Workshops were the only places of production until the advent of industrialization and the development of larger factories.

A room or building equipped for scientific experimentation or research.

A room, area, or small establishment where manual or light industrial work is done.

An academic period devoted to work or study in such a place.

An educational seminar or series of meetings emphasizing interaction and exchange of information among a usually small number of participants

A place where drugs and chemicals are manufactured.

To create or revise (a drama or literary work) based on suggestions or criticism from a group of collaborators.

A place for practice, observation, or testing.

A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.

A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.

A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.

A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.

An academic conference.

The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.

(transitive) To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.

Any place, activity or situation suggestive of a scientific laboratory{1}, especially in being conducive to learning new facts by experimentation or by systematic observation; as, the states serve as laboratories where different new policies may be tested prior to adoption throughout the country.

(transitive) To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.

A workplace for the conduct of scientific research

To improve through collaboration.

A region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation;

A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.

Small workplace where handcrafts or manufacturing are done

A brief intensive course for a small group; emphasizes problem solving