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cab

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

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cabin

English

Etymology

From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (a cabin); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kæb?n/
  • Rhymes: -æb?n

Noun

cabin (plural cabins)

  1. (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
    • 1994, Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
      And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
  2. (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
  3. A private room on a ship.
  4. The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
  5. The passenger area of an airplane.
  6. (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
  7. (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
  8. A small room; an enclosed place.
  9. (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.

Synonyms

  • cell
  • chamber
  • hut
  • pod
  • shack
  • shed

Antonyms

  • hall
  • palace
  • villa

Derived terms

  • cabin boy
  • cabin cruiser
  • log cabin
  • signal cabin

Descendants

  • ? French: cabine (see there for further descendants)
  • ? Japanese: ???? (kyabin)
  • ? Korean: ?? (kaebin)

Translations

Verb

cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple past and past participle cabined)

  1. (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
  2. (by extension) To limit the scope of.
    • 2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11:
      There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. [] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.

See also

  • cabana

Further reading

  • cabin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • cabin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • cabin at OneLook Dictionary Search

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