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CAB
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cab" is a kind of...):
auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cab"):
gypsy cab (a taxicab that cruises for customers although it is licensed only to respond to calls)
minicab (a minicar used as a taxicab)
Holonyms ("cab" is a member of...):
fleet (group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood
Synonyms:
cab; cabriolet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cab" is a kind of...):
carriage; equipage; rig (a vehicle with wheels drawn by one or more horses)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cab" is a kind of...):
compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)
Holonyms ("cab" is a part of...):
automotive vehicle; motor vehicle (a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ride in a taxicab
Synonyms:
cab; taxi
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "cab" is one way to...):
ride (be carried or travel on or in a vehicle)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
“Well, would you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry your Highness to the police-station?”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By good chance we got a cab near the "Spaniards," and drove to town.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Well, I took to my heels, and I ran after the cab.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There’s the cab, Hopkins, and you can remove your man.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Take the last one first—the cab.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our cabs were dismissed, and, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Thenceforward, he sat all day over the fire in the private room, gnawing his nails; there he dined, sitting alone with his fears, the waiter visibly quailing before his eye; and thence, when the night was fully come, he set forth in the corner of a closed cab, and was driven to and fro about the streets of the city.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Here we dismissed our cab, and made our way up the drive together.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
