cabinet
(noun) a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
cabinet, console
(noun) housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
cabinet, locker, storage locker
(noun) a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
cabinet
(noun) persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cabinet (plural cabinets)
A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
A cupboard.
The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.
(historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
(politics, often, capitalized) In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.
(archaic) A small chamber or private room.
(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
(dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
(obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.
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Source: Wiktionary
Cab"i*net, n. Etym: [F., dim. of cabine or cabane. See Cabin, n.]
1. A hut; a cottage; a small house. [Obs.] Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser.
2. A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.
3. A private room in which consultations are held. Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet. Prescott.
4. The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.
Note: In England, the cabinet or cabinet council consists of those privy coucilors who actually transact the immediate business of the government. Mozley & W.
– In the United States, the cabinet is composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government, namely, the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, and of Agiculture, the Postmaster-general ,and the Attorney-general.
5. (a) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence: (b) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an étagère or closed with doors. See Etagere.
6. Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself. Cabinet council. (a) Same as Cabinet, n., 4 (of which body it was formerly the full title). (b) A meeting of the cabinet.
– Cabinet councilor, a member of a cabinet council.
– Cabinet photograph, a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carte de visite.
– Cabinet picture, a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection.
Cab"i*net, a.
Definition: Suitable for a cabinet; small. He [Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. For. Quar. Rev.
Cab"i*net, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cabineted; p. pr. & vb. n. Cabineting.]
Definition: To inclose [R.] Hewyt.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 April 2024
(noun) a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
