cab
/kæb/
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cab noun: a compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver. Also the clipping of cabinet file.
Noun (1)
cab (plural cabs)
- A compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
- Synonyms:
- driver's compartment
- A similar compartment in other vehicles.
- Dad looked up to catch sight of the man in the crane’s cab. He knew that DEVILISH smirk anywhere. It was Fingers.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “”, in Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 324
- A shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
- Any of several two- or four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
- 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...[1877], Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 158
- “There will soon be very few hansom cabs left,” said Mrs. Elliot. “And four-wheeled cabs—I assure you even at Oxford it’s almost impossible to get a four-wheeled cab.”1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC
- Synonym of taxi, a vehicle available for public hire for single journeys.
- a cab ride
- to take a cab
- Synonyms:
- taxi
Verb
cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)
Noun (2)
cab (plural cabs)
Noun (3)
cab (plural cabs)
- An arcade cabinet, the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
Proper noun capitalized: CAB
CAB
- Initialism of Civil Aeronautics Board.
- Initialism of Citizens Advice Bureau.
- Initialism of Criminal Assets Bureau.
- Initialism of Combat Action Badge.
- The station code of Causeway Bay in Hong Kong.
Noun (4) capitalized: CAB
CAB (countable and uncountable, plural CABs)
Noun (5) capitalized: Cab
Cab (countable and uncountable, plural Cabs)
- Abbreviation of Cabernet Sauvignon wine.
- “So you're drinking some Cabs then, right?” she asked. ¶ I told her that indeed I was. […] Cabernet Sauvignon grows just about anywhere; nearly every wine-growing country has its Cab.2005, Maureen Christian Petrosky, The Wine Club: A Month-by-Month Guide to Learning about Wine with Friends, Des Moines, IA: Meredith Books, →ISBN, page 34
Noun (6) capitalized: Cab
Cab (plural Cabs)
Also used as
cab is also the clipping of cabinet file.
cab is also the abbreviation of cabernet sauvignon.
cab is also the alternative form of Cab.
cab meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
cab in Hindi
- कैब
cab in Marathi
- कॅब
cab in Urdu
- کیب
cab in Bengali
- ক্যাব
More languagesFewer languages
- cab in Telugu
- క్యాబ్
- cab in Malayalam
- ക്യാബ്, കാബ്
- cab in Kannada
- ಕ್ಯಾಬ್
- cab in Punjabi
- ਕੈਬ
- cab in Nepali
- क्याब
Examples of cab in a sentence
- Captain went out in the cab all the morning.[1877], Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part III, page 158:
- And I'm phoning a cab / 'Cause my stomach feels small / There's a taste in my mouth / And it's no taste at all1971, David Bowie, “Queen Bitch”, in Hunky Dory:
- “I like the system as a cab driver,” he said.2017 October 20, Cecilia Saixue Watt, “'There's no future for taxis': New York yellow cab drivers drowning in debt”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms of cab
Forms of cab
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cabs |
| alternative form | kab |
| plural | CABs |
| plural | Cabs |
| alternative form | cab |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cabs |
| present participle | cabbing |
| past participle | cabbed |
| past | cabbed |
Origin of cab
Clipping of cabriolet.
From Hebrew קב (káv).
Clipping of cabinet.
Words formed from cab
- aerocab
- aircab
- autocab
- bike cab
- cabber
- cabbie
- cabby
- cab driver
- cabdriver
- cabdriving
- cab forward
- cabless
- cabman
- cab off the rank
- cabover
- cabowner
- cab rank
- cab-rank rule
- cab sav
- cab signal
- cab signalling
- cab signaling
- cabstand
- cabulance
- cab unit
- cabwoman
- call a cab
- centercab
- day cab
- double cab
- dual cab
- extended cab
- gypsy cab
- gyrocab
- hack cab
- hackney cab
- helicab
- king cab
- minicab
- motorcab
- pedicab
- steeple cab
- supercab
- taxicab
- tender cab
- yellow cab
- shad cab
Phrases with cab
- cab savs
- crew cab
- black cab
- cab ranks
- cab units
- hansom cab
- cab drivers
- cab signals
- calls a cab
- sleeper cab
- cab forwards
- called a cab
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Words that rhyme with cab
Questions about cab
- What does cab mean?
- Cab means a compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
- What is cab in Hindi?
- Cab in Hindi is कैब. See Cab meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use cab in a sentence?
- Captain went out in the cab all the morning.
- What part of speech is cab?
- Cab can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce cab?
- Cab is pronounced /kæb/.
- What is the plural of cab?
- The plural of cab is cabs.
Words near cab in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cab (page history and authors); CAB (page history and authors); Cab (page history and authors); cab (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cab (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cab (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cab (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cab (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cab (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cab (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cab (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); cab (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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