different between abs vs cab

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æbz/
• Rhymes: -æbz

Adjective

abs

1. Abbreviation of abstract.

Noun

abs

1. (informal) The abdominal muscles. plural of ab [First attested in the mid 20^th century.]
2. Acronym of absolute temperature.
3. (mathematics) Initialism of absolute value function.

Usage notes

(abdominal muscles): The singular ab is rarely used.

Synonyms

• abdominal muscles
• abdominals

Translations

Verb

abs

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ab

References

Anagrams

• B. A. S., B.A.S., B.A.s, BAS, BAs, BSA, SAB, SBA, Sab., bas, sab

Livonian

Noun

abs

1. inessive singular of ab

Portuguese

Etymology

Abbreviation of abraços (“hugs”).

Noun

abs

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) hugs

Interjection

abs

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Used to close an informal message or e-mail, or as a goodbye on text messaging.

   Synonym: bjs

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:abs.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kæb/
• Rhymes: -æb
• Hyphenation: cab

Etymology 1

Clipping of cabriolet

Noun

cab (plural cabs)

1. A taxi; a taxicab.
2. Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver

   Synonym: driver's compartment

3. Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
4. 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!

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. To travel by taxicab.

Etymology 2

From Hebrew ??? (káv).

Alternative forms

• kab

Noun

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 […]

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)

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.

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

• IPA^(key): [kab?]

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, nominative plural cabanna)

1. mouth
2. muzzle

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “cab”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Italian

Etymology

From English cab

Noun

cab m (invariable)

1. Hansom cab

Anagrams

• abc

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)

1. mouth

   Dùin do chab!

   Shut your mouth!

Somali

Verb

cab

1. drink

Swedish

Noun

cab c

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

Declension