Cab vs Closet - What's the difference?
cab | closet |
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.
(chiefly, US) A piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored.
A small private chamber.
* Goldsmith
* Bible, Matthew vi. 6
A toilet; a water closet.
(figuratively) The imagined closet in idioms such as in the closet or skeleton in the closet, a place to keep things hidden.
Secret.
*
To shut away for private discussion.
To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
* (rfdate) (Bancroft)
* (rfdate) (Froude)
To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
* (rfdate) (Cowper)
As an initialism cab
is (us) (civil aeronautics board).As a noun closet is
closet.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!
Derived terms
* cabbie * cabdriver * hackney cab * king cab * Hansom cab * sleeper cab * crew cabVerb
(cabb)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* kabNoun
(en noun)Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)References
* [http://groups.google.co.uk/groups/search?q=%22arcade+cabs%22&btnG=Search&sitesearch=groups.google.com]Anagrams
* * * * ----closet
English
Noun
(wikipedia closet) (en noun)- (Dryden)
- a chair-lumbered closet , just twelve feet by nine
- When thou prayest, enter into thy closet .
- The'' 'closet''' can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
Synonyms
* (A piece of furniture) cupboard, wardrobe, press (British), locker, cabinetAdjective
(-)Derived terms
* closeted * closet oneself * come out of the closet * earth closet * in the closet * skeleton in the closet * water closetSee also
* come out * outVerb
(en verb)- The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
- He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
- He had been closeted with De Quadra.
- Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.