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cab

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See also: Cab, CAB, and сав

Translingual

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Symbol

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cab

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

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English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kæb/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æb
  • Hyphenation: cab

Etymology 1

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Clipping of cabriolet.

Noun

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cab (plural cabs)

  1. A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
    Synonym: driver's compartment
    a cab ride
    1. A similar compartment for other vehicles.
  2. A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
  3. 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!
  4. Synonym of taxi
Diagram of a steam locomotive. Cab is #5.
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Translations
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Verb

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

  1. To travel by taxicab.

Etymology 2

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From Hebrew קב (káv).

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Noun

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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 []
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Etymology 3

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Clipping of cabinet

Noun

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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) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file.

Etymology 4

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Noun

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cab (plural cabs)

  1. Alternative form of Cab

References

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Anagrams

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cab.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

  1. mouth
  2. muzzle

Declension

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Declension of cab (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cab cabanna
vocative a chaib a chabanna
genitive caib cabanna
dative cab cabanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cab na cabanna
genitive an chaib na gcabanna
dative leis an gcab
don chab
leis na cabanna

Derived terms

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Mutation

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, pages 1015
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 370, page 125
  4. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], page 311

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English cab.

Noun

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cab m (invariable)

  1. Hansom cab

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cab.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)

  1. mouth
    Dùin do chab!
    Shut your mouth!

Mutation

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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

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Verb

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cab

  1. drink

Swedish

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Noun

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cab c

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

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