cab | (noun) a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money | Synonyms: hack, taxi, taxicab |
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(noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cabriolet |
(noun) a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits | - |
(verb) ride in a taxicab | Synonyms: taxi |
cabal | (noun) a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) | Synonyms: conspiracy |
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(noun) a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue | Synonyms: camarilla, faction, junto |
(verb) engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together | Synonyms: complot, conjure, conspire, machinate |
cabala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabbala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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cabalism | (noun) adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation | Synonyms: kabbalism |
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cabalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: kabbalist |
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(noun) a member of a cabal | - |
cabalistic | (adjective) having a secret or hidden meaning | Synonyms: cryptic, cryptical, kabbalistic, qabalistic, sibylline |
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cabana | (noun) a small tent used as a dressing room beside the sea or a swimming pool | - |
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cabaret | (noun) a series of acts at a night club | Synonyms: floor show, floorshow |
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(noun) a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink | Synonyms: club, night club, nightclub, nightspot |
cabasset | (noun) a metal helmet worn by common soldiers in the 16th century | Synonyms: morion |
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cabassous | (noun) naked-tailed armadillo of tropical South America | Synonyms: Cabassous unicinctus, tatouay |
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cabbage | (noun) any of various types of cabbage | Synonyms: chou |
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(noun) any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers | Synonyms: Brassica oleracea, cultivated cabbage |
(noun) informal terms for money | Synonyms: boodle, bread, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, loot, lucre, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum |
(verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, filch, hook, lift, nobble, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
cabbageworm | (noun) toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly | Synonyms: Pieris rapae |
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cabbala | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbalah, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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cabbalah | (noun) an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret | Synonyms: cabala, cabbala, kabala, kabbala, kabbalah, qabala, qabalah |
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cabby | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabdriver, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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caber | (noun) a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland) | - |
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cabin | (noun) the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried | - |
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(noun) small room on a ship or boat where people sleep | - |
(noun) a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area | - |
(verb) confine to a small space, such as a cabin | - |
cabinet | (noun) a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display | - |
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(noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television | Synonyms: console |
(noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock | Synonyms: locker, storage locker |
(noun) persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers | - |
cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
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cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
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cabinetry | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetwork |
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cabinetwork | (noun) the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality) | Synonyms: cabinetry |
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(noun) woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker | - |
cable | (noun) a very strong thick rope made of twisted hemp or steel wire | - |
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(noun) a television system that transmits over cables | Synonyms: cable system, cable television, cable television service |
(noun) a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power | Synonyms: line, transmission line |
(noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cablegram, overseas telegram |
(noun) television that is transmitted over cable directly to the receiver | Synonyms: cable television |
(noun) a nautical unit of depth | Synonyms: cable's length, cable length |
(verb) send cables, wires, or telegrams | Synonyms: telegraph, wire |
(verb) fasten with a cable | - |
cablegram | (noun) a telegram sent abroad | Synonyms: cable, overseas telegram |
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cabman | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabdriver, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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cabochon | (noun) a highly polished gem that is cut convexly but without facets | - |
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caboodle | (noun) any collection in its entirety | Synonyms: bunch, lot |
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caboose | (noun) a car on a freight train for use of the train crew; usually the last car on the train | Synonyms: cabin car |
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(noun) the area for food preparation on a ship | Synonyms: cookhouse, galley, ship's galley |
cabotage | (noun) navigation in coastal waters | - |
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(noun) the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders | - |
cabriolet | (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood | Synonyms: cab |
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cabstand | (noun) a place where taxis park while awaiting customers | Synonyms: taxi rank, taxistand |
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