Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A taxicab.
- noun The covered compartment of a heavy vehicle or machine, such as a truck or locomotive, in which the operator or driver sits.
- noun A one-horse vehicle for public hire.
- intransitive verb To ride or travel in a taxicab.
- intransitive verb To drive a taxicab.
- noun An ancient Hebrew unit of measure equal to about 2 liters (2.1 quarts).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hackney carriage with either two or four wheels, drawn by one horse; a cabriolet.
- noun The hooded or covered part of a locomotive, which protects the engineer and fireman from the weather.
- To pass over in a cab: as, to
cab the distance: often used with an indefinite it: as, I'll cab it to Whitehall. - noun Any sticky substance.
- noun A small number of persons secretly united in the performance of some undertaking.
- noun See
capel . - noun A Hebrew measure of capacity, for both dry and liquid matter.
- noun A translation (usually literal) of a classical or other work in a foreign language, surreptitiously used by school-boys and students in preparing their lessons or recitations; a crib.
- To appropriate dishonestly and on the sly; crib; purloin.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Hebrew dry measure, containing a little over two (2.37) pints.
- noun A kind of close carriage with two or four wheels, usually a public vehicle.
- noun See
Hansom . - noun The covered part of a locomotive, in which the engineer has his station.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An ancient
Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters. - noun US A
taxi ; ataxicab . - noun Compartment at the front of a
truck ortrain for the driver - noun Any of several four-wheeled
carriages ; acabriolet
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
- noun a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
- noun a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- verb ride in a taxicab
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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If you hear the term cab within the trick's name, it means the rider came into the trick riding switch and landed regular.
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If you hear the term cab within the trick's name, it means the rider came into the trick riding switch and landed regular.
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If you hear the term cab within the trick's name, it means the rider came into the trick riding switch and landed regular.
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On top of that crane there used to be a cab, what they call a cab on top of it, about the size of a small fire truck.
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If you have those numbers you can tell at a glance if a cab is a pirate.
Living in D.F. 2005
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You also talk a bit about how conceiving of racism simply as having problems driving while black or being unable to get a cab is a dangerous form of forgetting on the part of black people.
Getting Over Race 2004
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You also talk a bit about how conceiving of racism simply as having problems driving while black or being unable to get a cab is a dangerous form of forgetting on the part of black people.
Getting Over Race 2004
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First, my temper was tried by the almost interminable journey, in the noisy and comfortless vehicle which they call a cab, from the river-wharf to the west-end of London, where Marmaduke lives.
Little Novels Wilkie Collins 1856
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The other kind of cab is the yellow or "standard" cab - mostly small sedans.
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The other kind of cab is the yellow or "standard" cab - mostly small sedans.
bilby commented on the word cab
"Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."
- George Burns.
December 8, 2008