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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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæk/
• Homophones: tach, tack

Etymology 1

Compare tack.

Noun

tac

1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A kind of customary payment by a tenant.

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Etymology 2

Noun

tac (uncountable)

1. (Tyneside, slang) The drug cannabis.

Anagrams

• A. C. T., A.C.T., ACT, ATC, Act., CAT, CTA, Cat, TCA, act, act., cat

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• tacu

Etymology

From Latin tace?. Compare Romanian t?cea, tac.

Verb

tac (third-person singular present indicative tatsi / tatse, past participle tãcutã)

1. I am silent, keep quiet.

Related terms

• tãtseari / tãtseare
• tãcut

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (t?j), ultimately of Iranian origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?d??], [t?d?z]

Noun

tac (definite accusative tactac?, plural taclar)

1. crown

Declension

Derived terms

• taxt-tac

Emilian

Alternative forms

• tàc (Modenese)
• tâc (Bolognese, Reggiano, Carpigiano)

Noun

tac m (plural tac) (Mirandola)

1. the back of a shoe
2. heel of a shoe

Synonyms

• arbòt (Bolognese)

French

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ak

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic

Interjection

tac

1. tick, tock

Derived terms

• du tac au tac
• avoir le tac
• tac-tac
• tactactac
• tic-tac
• tacot

Etymology 2

From Middle French tac

Noun

tac m (uncountable)

1. mange

Middle High German

Noun

tac m

1. Alternative form of tag

Declension

References

Old High German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tak/

Noun

tac m

1. Alternative form of tag

References

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tat?s/

Noun

tac f

1. genitive plural of taca

Romanian

Etymology 1

From Greek ????? (tákos)

Noun

tac n (plural tacuri)

1. (billiards) cue

Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

tac

1. first-person singular present indicative of t?cea
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of t?cea
3. third-person plural present indicative of t?cea

Spanish

Noun

tac m (plural tacs)

1. CAT
2. knock; clack; tock (sound)