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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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cockpit

English

Etymology

From cock +? pit.

Noun

cockpit (plural cockpits)

  1. The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile). [from 20th c.]
  2. The compartment in an aircraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled; an analogous area in a spacecraft. [from 20th c.]
  3. (now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting. [from 16th c.]
  4. (figuratively) A site of conflict; a battlefield. [from 16th c.]
    • 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan 2017, p. 170:
      India became the cockpit in which it was shown that trade was war carried on under another name.
  5. (vulgar, slang) The vagina. [from 17th c.]
  6. (Jamaican) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes. [from 17th c.]
  7. (nautical, now historical) The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay. [from 17th c.]
  8. (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located. [from 18th c.]
  9. (figuratively) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control. [from 20th c.]

Synonyms

  • (control area of an airplane): flight deck, office

Derived terms

  • bathtub cockpit
  • cockpit voice recorder, cockpit recorder
  • glass cockpit
  • greenhouse cockpit

Descendants

Translations

Anagrams

  • Pitcock, cocktip

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English cockpit.

Noun

cockpit m (plural cockpits)

  1. cockpit

Further reading

  • “cockpit” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cockpit.

Noun

cockpit m (definite singular cockpiten, indefinite plural cockpiter, definite plural cockpitene)

  1. (aviation, nautical) a cockpit (of an aircraft or boat)

References

  • “cockpit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cockpit.

Noun

cockpit m (definite singular cockpiten, indefinite plural cockpitar, definite plural cockpitane)

  1. (aviation, nautical) a cockpit (of an aircraft or boat)

References

  • “cockpit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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