cab

See also: Cab, CAB, Cáb, and сав

Translingual

Symbol

cab

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Garifuna.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Garifuna terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæb/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: cab

Etymology 1

Diagram of a steam locomotive. Cab (etymology 1 sense 1) is #5.

Clipping of cabriolet.

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

2. A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.

   Synonym: driver's compartment

3. A similar compartment in other vehicles.
   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “A Graveyard for Cars”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 324:

     Dad looked up to catch sight of the man in the crane’s cab. He knew that DEVILISH smirk anywhere. It was Fingers.

4. A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
5. (historical) Any of several two- or 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!

   • 1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:

     “There will soon be very few hansom cabs left,” said Mrs. Elliot. “And four-wheeled cabs—I assure you even at Oxford it’s almost impossible to get a four-wheeled cab.”

6. Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.

   a cab ride

   to take a cab

   • 1971, David Bowie, “Queen Bitch”, in Hunky Dory:

     And I'm phoning a cab / 'Cause my stomach feels small / There's a taste in my mouth / And it's no taste at all

   • 1992, “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”, Will Smith (lyrics), Quincy Jones and DJ Jazzy Jeff (music):

     I whistled for a cab, and when it came near / The license plate said "Fresh", and it had dice in the mirror / If anything, I could say that this cab was rare / But I thought "Nah, forget it, yo home to Bel-Air!"

   • 2017 October 20, Cecilia Saixue Watt, “'There's no future for taxis': New York yellow cab drivers drowning in debt”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     “I like the system as a cab driver,” he said. “I’m used to it. I like to just pick up a person. Tell me where you’re going, I’ll know where I’m going. It’s easier for me.”

Hyponyms

• (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab
• (four-wheeled carriage): black cab, hackney cab, Hansom cab

Derived terms

• aerocab
• aircab
• autocab
• bike cab
• cabber
• cabbie
• cabby
• cab driver
• cabdriver
• 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
• hack cab
• hackney cab
• helicab
• king cab
• minicab
• motorcab
• pedicab
• steeple cab
• supercab
• taxicab
• tender cab
• yellow cab

Translations

compartment

• Bulgarian: кабина f (kabina)
• Catalan: cabina (ca) f
• Czech: kabina (cs) f
• Finnish: ohjaamo (fi)
• Galician: cabina (gl)
• German: Führerhaus (de) n, Fahrerhaus n, Führerkabine f, Fahrerkabine (de) f
• Hungarian: vezetőfülke (hu)
• Italian: cabina (it) f
• Polish: kabina maszynisty f
• Portuguese: cabine (pt) f, boleia (pt) f
• Russian: каби́на (ru) f (kabína)
• Spanish: cabina (es)
• Swedish: förarhytt (sv) c
• Turkish: kabin (tr)

Verb

cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)

1. To travel by taxicab.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew קב (káv).

Alternative forms

• kab

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. (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

• (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

Clipping of cabinet.

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
2. (software, Windows) Clipping of cabinet file (“a compress library archive file”).

   Coordinate terms: DMF, MSI, MSU

Etymology 4

Clipping of cabernet sauvignon

Noun

cab (usually uncountable, plural cabs)

1. (cooking, informal, wine) Short for cabernet sauvignon

Etymology 5

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. Alternative form of Cab.

References

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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Anagrams

• B. C. A., B.C.A., bac, CBA, BAC, ABC, cba, A. B. C., -bac-, BCA, A.B.C.

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑbˠ/, /kabˠ/, (Cois Fharraige) [kaːb]

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

1. mouth
   1. (of persons) toothless mouth
   2. (of animals) muzzle, maw
2. (derogatory) gob, trap

   Dún do chab! ― Shut your gob!

3. lip

Declension

Declension of cab (first declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative cab cabanna vocative a chaib a chabanna genitive caib cabanna dative cab cabanna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an cab na cabanna genitive an chaib na gcabanna dative leis an gcab don chab leis na cabanna

Derived terms

• cabach
• cabáil
• cabaire
• cabanta
• caibín

Mutation

Mutated forms of cab

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cab	chab	gcab

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “cab”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 143; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cab”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cab.

Noun

cab m (invariable)

1. Hansom cab

Anagrams

• abc

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish cab.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰap/

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)

1. mouth

   Dùin do chab!

   Shut your mouth!

Mutation

Mutation of cab

radical	lenition
cab	chab

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Somali

Etymology

Cognate with Rendille abh'ub, Oromo obaasa, Afar ooqobe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʕæb/

Verb

cab

1. to drink

Swedish

Noun

cab c

1. a convertible car, one with a foldable roof; short for cabriolet

Declension

Declension of cab

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	cab	cabs
	definite	cabben	cabbens
plural	indefinite	cabbar	cabbars
	definite	cabbarna	cabbarnas