A cab is a taxi. 2. countable noun. The cab of a truck or train is the front part in which the driver sits.
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A cab is a taxi, a car whose driver you pay to take you where you need to go. It can feel like a competitive sport to hail a cab in New York City. Your cab driver may talk incessantly while she drives you to the airport, or you might ride in a cab that's silent except for the sound of its horn honking at other drivers.
The word taxi, coming from the meter that calculates the fare (taximeter ), and cab from cabriolet , which originally was a covered horse drawn carriage. In some countries it's known as a taxi, and in others it's a cab. Most English speaking countries will know it as either or both.
Most of the English speaking countries use both words while the non-English speaking ones use taxi almost exclusively, or a regional derivative. Cab and taxi are two words we use to refer to a type of vehicle for hire with a driver.