English Online Dictionary. What means cab? What does cab mean?
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kæb/
- Rhymes: -æb
- Hyphenation: cab
Etymology 1
Clipping of cabriolet
Noun
cab (plural cabs)
- Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
- Synonym: driver's compartment
- Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
- Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
- Synonym of taxi
Hyponyms
- (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab
- (four-wheeled carriage, taxi): black cab, hackney cab, Hansom cab, king cab, yellow cab, taxicab
Derived terms
Translations
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 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)
- (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
- (software, Windows) Alternative form of CAB; Clipping of cabinet file.; a compress library archive file.
Etymology 4
Noun
cab (plural cabs)
- Alternative form of Cab
References
- "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online
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Anagrams
- -bac-, A. B. C., A.B.C., ABC, B. C. A., B.C.A., BAC, BCA, CBA, bac
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish cab.
Pronunciation
- (Munster, Aran) IPA(key): /kɑbˠ/
- (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): /kabˠ/
Noun
cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)
- mouth
- muzzle
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Italian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English cab.
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!
- Dùin do chab!
Somali
Verb
cab
- drink
Swedish
Noun
cab c
- a convertible car, one with a foldable roof; short for cabriolet