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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]cab (plural cabs)
- Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
- Synonym: driver's compartment
- a cab ride
- A similar compartment for other vehicles.
- 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
- Dad looked up to catch sight of the man in the crane’s cab. He knew that smirk anywhere. It was Fingers.
- Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
- Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
- [1877], Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 158:
- Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well. There was no bearing rein—no curb—nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
- Synonym of taxi
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Hyponyms
[edit]- (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab
- (four-wheeled carriage, taxi): black cab, hackney cab, Hansom cab, king cab, yellow cab, taxicab
Derived terms
[edit]- aerocab
- aircab
- autocab
- bike cab
- cabber
- cabbie
- cabby
- cabdriver
- cab driver
- cabdriving
- cab forward
- cabless
- cabman
- cab off the rank
- cabover
- cabowner
- cab rank
- cab-rank rule
- cab sav
- cab signal
- cab signalling, cab signaling
- cabstand
- cabulance
- cab unit
- cabwoman
- call a cab
- centercab
- day cab
- double cab
- dual cab
- extended cab
- gypsy cab
- gyrocab
- helicab
- minicab
- motorcab
- steeple cab
- supercab
- taxicab
- tender cab
- yellow cab
Translations
[edit]compartment
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Verb
[edit]cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)
Etymology 2
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]cab (plural cabs)
- (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:
- […] in the famine of Samaria […] the fourth part of a cab of pigeon's dung was sold for five pieces of silver […]
Meronyms
[edit]- (liquid volume): log (1⁄4 cab); hin (3 cabs); bath (18 cabs); cor, kor, homer, chomer (180 cabs)
- (dry volume): seah (6 cabs); ephah (18 cabs); lethek, lethech (90 cabs); homer, chomer, cor, kor (180 cabs)
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]cab (plural cabs)
- (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
- (software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file.
Etymology 4
[edit]Noun
[edit]cab (plural cabs)
- Alternative form of Cab
References
[edit]- "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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Anagrams
[edit]Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish cab.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)
Declension
[edit]Declension of cab
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cab | chab | gcab |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English cab.
Noun
[edit]cab m (invariable)
Anagrams
[edit]Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Noun
[edit]cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)
- mouth
- Dùin do chab!
- Shut your mouth!
- Dùin do chab!
Somali
[edit]Verb
[edit]cab
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]cab c
- a convertible car, one with a foldable roof; short for cabriolet
Declension
[edit]Declension of cab | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | cab | cabben | cabbar | cabbarna |
Genitive | cabs | cabbens | cabbars | cabbarnas |
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- ga:Face
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