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Webster 1913 Edition
Cab
Cab
(kăb)
, Noun.
[Abbrev. fr.
cabriolet
.] 1.
A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
“A cab came clattering up.” Thackeray.
☞ A cab may have two seats at right angles 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
(kăb)
, Noun.
[Heb.
qab
, fr. qābab
to hollow.] A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
W. H. Ward.
2 Kings vi. 25.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cab
CAB
,Noun.
Definition 2024
cab
cab
English
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!
- 1877, Anna Sewell, Black Beauty
Hyponyms
- (compartment): crew cab, Eurocab, sleeper cab
- (four-wheeled carriage): hackney cab, Hansom cab, king cab
Derived terms
Translations
taxi — see taxi
compartment
Verb
cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)
Etymology 2
From Hebrew קב (káv).
Alternative forms
Noun
cab (plural cabs)
- An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
- 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 […]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:
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
Anagrams
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kabˠ]
Noun
cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)
Declension
Declension of cab
First declension
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cab | chab | gcab |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||