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cab
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kæb/
- Rhymes: -æb
- Hyphenation: cab
Etymology 1
Clipping of cabriolet
Noun
cab (plural cabs)
- A taxi; a taxicab.
- Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
- Synonym: driver's compartment
- 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): 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)
- To travel by taxicab.
Etymology 2
From Hebrew ??? (káv).
Alternative forms
- kab
Noun
cab (plural cabs)
- (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 […]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:
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)
- (video games, informal) An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
- (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)
- mouth
- 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)
- Hansom cab
Anagrams
- abc
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
cab m (genitive singular caib, plural caban)
- mouth
- Dùin do chab!
- Shut your mouth!
- Dùin do chab!
Somali
Verb
cab
- drink
Swedish
Noun
cab c
- 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)
- The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile). [from 20th c.]
- 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.]
- (now chiefly historical) A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting. [from 16th c.]
- (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.
- 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan 2017, p. 170:
- (vulgar, slang) The vagina. [from 17th c.]
- (Jamaican) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes. [from 17th c.]
- (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.]
- (nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located. [from 18th c.]
- (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)
- 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)
- (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)
- (aviation, nautical) a cockpit (of an aircraft or boat)
References
- “cockpit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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