Cowl vs Cab - What's the difference?
cowl | cab |
A monk's hood or hooded robe
* Alexander Pope
A mask that covers the majority of the head.
A thin protective covering over all or part of an engine; also cowling
A usually hood-shaped covering used to increase the draft of a chimney and prevent backflow.
(nautical) A ship's ventilator with a bell-shaped top which can be swivelled to catch the wind and force it below
(nautical) A vertical projection of a ship's funnel that directs the smoke away from the bridge
(obsolete, British) A soe
A taxi; a taxicab.
Compartment at the front of a truck or train for the driver
Shelter at the top of an air traffic control tower or fire lookout tower
Any of several four-wheeled carriages; a cabriolet
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty)
To travel by taxicab.
An ancient Hebrew unit of dry measure, held by some to have been about 1.4 liters, by others about 2.4 liters.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.3:
(video games, informal) An arcade cabinet; the unit in which a video game is housed in a gaming arcade.
As nouns the difference between cowl and cab
is that cowl is a monk's hood or hooded robe while cab is a taxi; a taxicab.As a verb cab is
to travel by taxicab.As an initialism CAB is
Civil Aeronautics Boardcowl
English
(wikipedia cowl)Noun
(en noun)- What differ more, you cry, than crown and cowl ?
See also
* (l) (cowl-shaped)Anagrams
*cab
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- Captain went out in the cab' all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the ' cab . Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!