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carb
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /k??b/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /k??b/
- Rhymes: -??(?)b
Noun
carb (plural carbs)
- (informal, usually in the plural) Clipping of carbohydrate.
- (informal) Clipping of carburettor / carburetor.
- Synonyms: carby, carbie
- (drugs) The hole on a pipe which is covered and opened to control the inflow of air.
- (drugs) The hole on a pipe which is covered and opened to control the inflow of air.
Derived terms
- carb up
- low-carb
Translations
See also
- carb-
Anagrams
- BRAC, RBAC, cbar, crab
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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
- [1]
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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