Tra từ cab - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

cab/kæb/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[date : 1800-1900; Origin : cabriolet]
1. a taxi:
　 ▪ New York’s yellow cabs
take/get a cab
　 ▪ I took a cab to the airport.
call (somebody) a cab (=telephone for a taxi)
　 ▪ Ralph tried to hail a cab (=wave to get a cab to stop for you).

2. the part of a bus, train, or truck in which the driver sits

3. a carriage pulled by horses that was used like a taxi in the past
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COLLOCATIONS
verbs
▪take/get/catch a cab (=travel by cab)
　 ▪ Why don't we take a cab to the theater?
▪call/order (somebody) a cab (=telephone for one to come)
　 ▪ Here's the phone number if you want to call a cab.
▪phone for a cab British English (=call a cab)
　 ▪ There's no need to give me a lift. I'll phone for a cab.
▪get into/out of a cab
　 ▪ I just saw Fiona getting into a cab.
▪hail a cab written (=wave to make a cab stop for you)
　 ▪ Martin put his hand out and hailed a cab.
cab + NOUN
▪a cab driver
　 ▪ Many cab drivers fear being robbed.
▪a cab fare (=the money you pay to travel in a cab)
　 ▪ My Dad gave me the money for my cab fare.
▪a cab ride (=trip in a cab)
　 ▪ It's only a short cab ride to Georgetown.

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bus/train/air/cab fare
▪ Air fares have shot up by 20%.
cab rank
hail a cab/taxi
▪ The hotel doorman will hail a cab for you.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
black
▪ What was hiding a bit of evidence compared to clubbing somebody to death with a black cab?
▪ Anyway, I've not been in a black cab in years.
▪ There were hoots coming from the back of the other black cabs stuck behind me.
▪ But while the passengers interrogated in London's black cabs may be wholeheartedly Conservative, taxi drivers themselves are wavering.
▪ Or take the black cab, designed in the 1950s.
▪ Dozens of black cabs pile down the ramp below Euston.
▪ A black cab drew in to the pavement a few yards ahead of them.
▪ You can hail a black cab on the companies.
NOUN
driver
▪ Male cab drivers in Gloucester said running a female only business would give an unfair impression of men.
▪ Coffee grounds and cab drivers tend to be less precise than computers.
▪ I told the cab driver to wait and watched Jules as he went up to the house.
▪ Andy Brown, the gullible foil and friend of Kingfish, and Amos Jones, a salt-of-the-earth cab driver.
▪ He was always on at me to become a cab driver or something.
▪ The cab driver obviously was from another country.
fare
▪ The cab fare was thirty-three dollars.
▪ By network standards, that is cab fare.
▪ This girl, this young woman, coming here and asking for the loan of a shilling for a cab fare.
hansom
▪ The time when you would be relieved by the spectre of a hansom cab in the eerily unpeopled streets.
▪ Traffic had long left the streets. Hansom cabs had returned to their mews.
▪ In addition to the milk floats there were also a few redundant horse vehicles, including a pre-war bread van and a hansom cab.
rank
▪ A familiar figure got out of the bus and walked straight to the cab rank.
▪ McCready waited ten minutes, strolled to the cab rank on Tunistrasse and hailed a cab for Bonn.
▪ So I goes to the cab rank, and gets up on the box.
ride
▪ Which was a right drag - Kensal Green was a quid cab ride from the West End which was within my pocket.
▪ One seemed to think I wanted a cab ride, but I pointed to my car.
VERB
call
▪ He asked whether she would mind calling him a cab and she dangled car keys and said she would drive him herself.
▪ Haddad muttered and set him upright before he called a cab.
climb
▪ Without glancing back at the house, he climbed into the cab of the Land Rover.
▪ She climbed into the cab behind him, and they took off, waving.
▪ They stood Donald in the back of Tommy's pick-up truck, then they climbed into the cab.
▪ Blake climbed into the cab, followed by the Doctor.
▪ I climb into a cab outside 72 Market Street.
drive
▪ In seven years driving a cab this is the first time I've been done for anything.
▪ His brother has never driven a cab before either; this was going to be his first day.
▪ Rex drove the cab with considerable skill.
find
▪ Now I suppose I shall have to tramp back to Moorgate underground station, before I can find a cab.
▪ He walked for miles, lost, before he found another cab.
▪ If he was lucky he'd find a cab there, though at this time of night they weren't frequent.
▪ Blue gets lucky again and manages to find another cab just seconds later.
▪ One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab, I saw my chance.
▪ First, a taxi to Euston Station, where he could easily find another cab after a few minutes' delay.
▪ You stay there with the luggage while I find a cab and leave it around the corner from the garage.
▪ Walk to Fleet Street, try to find a cab there?
get
▪ He managed to get the cab in gear and then he was away, really fast.
▪ When they were finished, Wyatt took one last look around before getting back into the cab.
▪ Duncan got in the cab and searched for anything that might have been left.
▪ After that morning it became almost impossible for me to get a cab.
▪ After my sandwich and a drink, I got a cab to my own office in Whitehall, and rang Seddon.
▪ We dress carefully, get a cab, and arrive on time.
▪ Tam carefully opened his door and got out of the cab.
hail
▪ She raised her hand to hail a cab but the Paris traffic was zooming by at its usual break-neck pace.
▪ CabCharge customers can phone or hail cabs displaying a distinctive blue decal.
▪ McCready waited ten minutes, strolled to the cab rank on Tunistrasse and hailed a cab for Bonn.
▪ He hailed a cab and went to the Montrose.
▪ He walked quickly, getting three streets clear, then hailed a cab.
▪ So hail that cab and don't forget the driver won't know the way, he only lives here.
▪ You can hail a black cab on the companies.
▪ A couple of minutes later I hailed a cab and was on my way to Heathrow.
jump
▪ He jumped from the cab seconds before the train slammed into his rig.
sit
▪ I sat in the cab for half an hour and then this fellow went off.
▪ Instead we sat silently in the cab as it slowly filled with smoke.
▪ One of the taxi drivers shot in Castle Street was hit as he sat in his cab.
take
▪ Which is why we take a cab.
▪ When it was over, the three of them took a cab across town to an expensive restaurant near the capitol.
▪ We were too hot to take a cab, so we just sauntered along with the crowds.
▪ There are several ways we could do it: We could take more cabs.
▪ The main attraction is one easier-to-use control system taking up less cab space.
▪ We took a cab to my place.
▪ At an annual meeting of League clubs, Carey took a cab with his chairman across London.
▪ Roxanne and Ernie take a cab home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Benji can look like a broken-down old cab horse with a real novice on his back or he can look really smart.
▪ Drivers are in such close proximity to passengers and there is no grille between them as in black cabs.
▪ In October 1991 a woman was thrown from the cab of this van on the M40 and died.
▪ One seemed to think I wanted a cab ride, but I pointed to my car.
▪ Police recognized Moll and arrested him as a suspect in two grocery store robberies, also involving getaway cabs.
▪ Rocky O'Rourke, in the cab of his big sixteen wheeler, was parked about twenty yards north of the gates.
▪ Without glancing back at the house, he climbed into the cab of the Land Rover.