Noun

(en noun)

(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.

Noun

(en noun)

A conveyance; a device for carrying or transporting substances, objects or individuals.

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black)

, title= Internal Combustion, chapter=1 , passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.

A medium for expression of talent or views.

A liquid content (e.g. oil) which acts as a binding and drying agent in paint. (FM 55-501).

An entity to achieve an end.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington

, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told , passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}

(Buddhism) A mode or method of spiritual practice; a yana.

(Hinduism) An animal or (rarely) a plant on which a Hindu deity rides or sits