CAB

cab, hack, taxi, taxicab

(noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

cab, cabriolet

(noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood

cab

(noun) a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits

taxi, cab

(verb) ride in a taxicab

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

A taxi; a taxicab.

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

Hyponyms

• (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab

• (four-wheeled carriage): black cab, hackney cab, Hansom cab, king cab

Verb

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

To travel by taxicab.

Etymology 2

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

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.

Anagrams

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

Proper noun

CAB

(US) Initialism of Civil Aeronautics Board.

(UK) Initialism of Citizens Advice Bureau.

(Ireland) Initialism of Criminal Assets Bureau.

(military, US) Initialism of Combat Action Badge.

Noun

CAB (countable and uncountable, plural CABs)

(emergency medicine) Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing.

Initialism of caffeinated alcoholic beverage.

Coordinate terms

• (MS Cabinet File): MSI, MSU, DMF

Anagrams

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

Etymology

Noun

Cab (countable and uncountable, plural Cabs)

Cabernet Sauvignon wine.

Anagrams

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

Source: Wiktionary


Cab, n. Etym: [Abbrev. fr. cabriolet.]

1. A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle. "A cab came clattering up." Thackeray.

Note: A cab may have two seats at right to the driver's seat, and a door behind; or one seat parallel to the driver's, with the entrance from the side or front. Hansom cab. See Hansom.

2. The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station. Knight.

Cab, n. Etym: [Heb. gab, fr. qabab to hollow.]

Definition: A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints. W. H. Ward. 2 Kings vi. 25.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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