cab

«cab» in Mova's school dictionary: a taxi, a car with a driver you pay to take you somewhere — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a cab, cabs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cab is a taxi, a car with a driver you pay to take you somewhere. tree →

2) A cab is the part of a lorry, truck, train or crane where the driver sits. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories and everyday life people «take a cab» or «call a cab». In maths problems cab fares are a fixed charge plus a price per kilometre or mile. Phrases: «take a cab», «call a cab», «hail a cab», «cab driver», «black cab» (London).

examples

• We took a cab to the station. tree →
• The cab costs 3 dollars plus 2 dollars per mile; how much is a 5-mile trip? tree →
• Mum hailed a black cab in London. tree →
• The truck driver climbed into the cab. tree →
• The cab driver helped us with our bags. tree →
• Never get into a cab with a stranger who isn't a real taxi driver. tree →
• A crowd had followed the cab out of the town; now they reached the scene of the "State Function"--and they all cried out: "Fair play--play fair! tree →

note

Countable. Cab is a short form of «cabriolet» (an old horse carriage); «taxi» means the same today. Maths: fare = fixed charge + rate × distance. Safety: use licensed taxis.

In the corpora

• Lorry and truck drivers have big blind spots beside their cab, where they cannot see a cyclist at all.
• London's Docklands Light Railway has run with no driver in a cab since 1987; computers drive it between stations.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cab» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.