cab

English Online Dictionary. What means cab‎? What does cab mean?

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/
• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: cab

Etymology 1

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.
4. A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
5. Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
6. Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

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.

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

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
2. muzzle

Declension

Derived terms

• cabach
• cabaire

Mutation

References

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cab”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• 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

Mutation

Somali

Verb

cab

1. drink

Swedish

Noun

cab c

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

Declension