cab

See also: CAB and сав

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

Clipping of cabriolet

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

A taxi; a taxicab.
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
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, 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

Translations

taxi — see taxi

compartment

Bulgarian: кабина f (kabina)
Czech: kabina (cs) f
Finnish: ohjaamo (fi)
German: Führerhaus n, Fahrerhaus n, Führerkabine f, Fahrerkabine (de) f

Hungarian: vezetőfülke (hu)
Italian: cabina (it) f
Portuguese: cabine (pt) f
Russian: каби́на (ru) f (kabína)

Verb

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

To travel by taxicab.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew קב‎ (káv).

Alternative forms

kab

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

(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)

(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

Anagrams

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

Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kabˠ]

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

mouth
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.

Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

cab m (invariable)

Hansom cab

Anagrams

abc

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)

mouth
Dùin do chab!
Shut your mouth!

Somali

Verb

cab

drink

Swedish

Noun

cab c

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

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