The word cab has a number of meanings, most of which are abbreviations:

• A cabriolet is kind of a light, horse-drawn carriage which replaced the heavier hackney carriage in the 19th century as the vehicle for hire of choice in Paris and London, and was the forerunner of the modern taxicab.
• A taxicab is an automobile used as a vehicle for hire, which replaced cabriolets at the beginning of the 20th century. The word comes from taxi(meter) + cab(riolet).

• A cabin is the driver/operator's compartment in a truck (lorry), crane or railway locomotive.
• In British English, by derivation from the previous, a cab may also be:
  • the tractor part of an articulated lorry; also called an "artic cab".
  • The moving passenger compartment in an elevator (lift).

• Cab car.

• A cabochon is a gemstone cut with a flat bottom and a rounded top.
• Cabernet sauvignon is a variety of red wine, as well as the grape it is made from.

• Cab is a 2006 song by Train (band)
• Cabinet especially amongst musicians when referring to loudspeaker cabinets.

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• Čab a village in Nitra District in Slovakia
• Cab Calloway School of the Arts

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The acronym CAB may stand for:

• C.A.B. was a 1980s British children's television show
• cabinet (file format)
• Canadian Association of Broadcasters
• Choose and Book
• In the UK, the Citizens Advice Bureau
• Civil Aeronautics Board
• Combat Aviation Brigade -- US Army
• The US Army Combat Action Badge
• Microsoft's Composite UI Application Block, a framework to build modular Windows applications.
• Controller Anti-lock Brake, see Anti-lock Braking System
• In Ireland, the Criminal Assets Bureau
• Argentina's Club Atlético Banfield
• In the British Army, CAB stands for Combat Assault Boot.
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library terminology, Change Advisory Board.
• C.A.B. : A French committee against noobs in the world (Comité Anti-Boulet FRANCE) : C.A.N. in English and for other countries (Committee Against Noob)

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