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Cabinet vs Cabined - What's the difference?

cabinet | cabined |

As a noun cabinet

is a storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.

As an adjective cabined is

confined at close quarters.

cabinet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 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—’}}
  • (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3?" by 5½".
  • * 1891 , , A Scandal In Bohemia , Norton (2005), p. 19,
    • Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet ?”
  • 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
    • Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.
  • (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
  • (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
  • (obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
  • * Spenser
    • Hearken a while from thy green cabinet , / The rural song of careful Colinet.

    See also

    * armoire * kitchen cabinet * salon

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    cabined

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Confined at close quarters
  • * {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Herbert M. Hopkins, title=The Mayor of Warwick, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He did not realise that there was nothing personal in this aloofness, except in so far as he personified a larger life, whose hopeful outlook stirred in more cabined natures an unacknowledged resentment. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=Clarence Stratton, title=Public Speaking, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=They feel themselves in a state of thraldom; they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have some man, or some body of men, dependent on their mercy. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=William Beebe, title=Edge of the Jungle, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then, if there comes a click in his internal time-clock, he may set out upon another quest--more cabined , cribbed, and confined than any member of a Cook's tourist party. }}

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