Cabin vs Cabinet - What's the difference?
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(lb) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
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*1994 , Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill
*:And that was how long we stayed in the cabin , pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
(lb) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
A compartment on land, usually comprised of logs.
A private room on a ship.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin , which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
The passenger area of an airplane.
The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
A signal box.
A small room; an enclosed place.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
To place in a cabin.
(obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
* Shakespeare
A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
(New England) cupboard
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=3 (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3?" by 5½".
* 1891 , , A Scandal In Bohemia , Norton (2005), p. 19,
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.
* Prescott
(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
(dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
(obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
* Spenser
In obsolete terms the difference between cabin and cabinet
is that cabin is to live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge while cabinet is a hut; a cottage; a small house.As nouns the difference between cabin and cabinet
is that cabin is a small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it while cabinet is a storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.As a verb cabin
is to place in a cabin.cabin
English
(wikipedia cabin)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* cell * chamber * hut * pod * shack * shedAntonyms
* hall * palace * villaSee also
* cabanaVerb
(en verb)- I'll make you cabin in a cave.
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English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet , and that's unique. The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}
- Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet ?”
- Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.
- Hearken a while from thy green cabinet , / The rural song of careful Colinet.
