cab

• IPA^(key): /kæb/

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• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: cab

Clipping of cabriolet

cab (plural cabs)

1. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.

   Synonym: driver's compartment

   a cab ride

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, Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC:

     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!

4. Synonym of taxi

Diagram of a steam locomotive. Cab is #5.

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

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

1. To travel by taxicab.

From Hebrew קב‎ (káv).

• kab

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 […]

• (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)

Clipping of cabinet

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.

cab (plural cabs)

1. Alternative form of Cab

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

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

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

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

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

1. mouth
2. muzzle

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

cab m (invariable)

1. Hansom cab

• abc

cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)

1. mouth

   Dùin do chab!

   Shut your mouth!

cab

1. drink

cab c

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