cab

See also: Cab, CAB, and сав

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæb/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: cab

Etymology 1

Clipping of cabriolet

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. 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.
      • 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.

2. 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.

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

• 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

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

Etymology 4

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. Alternative form of Cab

References

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

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

• (Munster, Aran) IPA^(key): /kɑbˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /kabˠ/^[1]

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

1. mouth
2. muzzle

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

Declension of cab

First declension

Derived terms

• cabaire

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.

References

1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 370, page 125

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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

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

Somali

Verb

cab

1. drink

Swedish

Noun

cab c

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

Declension

Declension of cab
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	cab	cabben	cabbar	cabbarna
Genitive	cabs	cabbens	cabbars	cabbarnas