English Explanatory Dictionary

cab

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
  2. A similar compartment in other vehicles.
  3. A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
  4. Any of several two- or four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
  5. Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.
verb
  1. To travel by taxicab.
noun
  1. A former Hebrew unit of volume, about equal to 1.3 L as a dry measure or 1.25 L as a liquid measure.
noun
  1. An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
  2. Clipping of cabinet file (“a compressed library archive file”).
noun
  1. Short for cabernet sauvignon
noun
  1. Alternative form of Cab.
name
  1. Initialism of Civil Aeronautics Board.
  2. Initialism of Citizens Advice Bureau.
  3. Initialism of Criminal Assets Bureau.
  4. Initialism of Combat Action Badge.
  5. The station code of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong.
noun
  1. Initialism of chest compressions, airway and breathing.
  2. Initialism of Cognition, Affect, and Behavior.
  3. Initialism of caffeinated alcoholic beverage.
noun
  1. Abbreviation of Cabernet Sauvignon wine.
noun
  1. A type of aerial spin; a switch frontside rotation.

Pronunciation

/kæb/ en-us-cab.ogg En-us-ncalif-cab.ogg

Word forms

cab cabs cabbing cabbed kab

Etymology

Clipping of cabriolet.

Synonyms

driver's compartment taxi ABC

Related words

Cabs

Derived words

aerocab aircab autocab bike cab cabber cabbie cabby cab driver cabdriver cabdriving cab forward cabless cabman cab off the rank cabover cabowner cab rank cab-rank rule cab sav cab signal cab signalling cab signaling cabstand cabulance cab unit cabwoman call a cab centercab day cab double cab dual cab extended cab gypsy cab gyrocab hack cab hackney cab helicab king cab minicab motorcab pedicab steeple cab supercab taxicab tender cab yellow cab shad cab

Translations

Bulgarian: кабина Catalan: cabina Czech: kabina Finnish: ohjaamo Galician: cabina German: Führerhaus German: Fahrerhaus German: Führerkabine German: Fahrerkabine Hungarian: vezetőfülke Italian: cabina Polish: kabina maszynisty Portuguese: cabine Portuguese: boleia Russian: каби́на Spanish: cabina Swedish: förarhytt Turkish: kabin
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