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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/#m1)

2) A cab is the part of a lorry, truck, train or crane where the driver sits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/#x1)
- The cab costs 3 dollars plus 2 dollars per mile; how much is a 5-mile trip? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/#x2)
- Mum hailed a black cab in London. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/#x3)
- The truck driver climbed into the cab. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/#x4)
- The cab driver helped us with our bags. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/#x5)
- Never get into a cab with a stranger who isn't a real taxi driver. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/272-bikes-scooters-and-car-parks/20/)
- [London's Docklands Light Railway has run with no driver in a cab since 1987; computers drive it between stations.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/21-trains-and-the-underground/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cab» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cab/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.