cab

See also: CAB and сав

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæb/

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• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: cab

Etymology 1

Clipping of cabriolet

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. A taxi; a taxicab.
2. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
3. Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
4. Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
   • 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

     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 check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

Terms derived from cab

• cabbie
• cabdriver
• cab forward
• cab signalling, cab signaling
• cab unit

Translations

taxi — see taxi

compartment

• Bulgarian: кабина f (kabina)
• Czech: kabina (cs) f
• Finnish: ohjaamo (fi)
• German: Führerhaus (de) n, Fahrerhaus n, Führerkabine f, Fahrerkabine (de) f
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• Hungarian: vezetőfülke (hu)
• Italian: cabina (it) f
• Portuguese: cabine (pt) f
• Russian: каби́на (ru) f (kabína)

Verb

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 1¼ 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 (¼ 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.

References

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

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

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kabˠ]

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

1. mouth
2. muzzle

Declension

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cab	chab	gcab
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Italian

Etymology

From English cab

Noun

cab m (uncountable)

1. Hansom cab

Anagrams

• abc

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)

1. mouth

   Dùin do chab!

   Shut your mouth!

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Somali

Verb

cab

1. drink

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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