cab

See also: Cab, CAB, and сав

English

cab (plural cabs)

Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver.
Synonym: driver's compartment

a cab ride
1. A similar compartment for other vehicles.
  - 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
    Dad looked up to catch sight of the man in the crane’s cab. He knew that smirk anywhere. It was Fingers.
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower.
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet.
- , Anna Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: , London: Jarrold and Sons, , →OCLC, part III, page 158:
  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 bearing rein—no curb—nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!
Synonym of taxi

compartment

cab (third-person singular simple present cabs, present participle cabbing, simple past and past participle cabbed)

From Hebrew קב (káv).

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 […]

(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)

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.