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Cabinet vs Closet - What's the difference?

cabinet | closet |

Closet is a synonym of cabinet.



As nouns the difference between cabinet and closet

is that cabinet is a storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall while closet is a piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored.

As an adjective closet is

secret.

As a verb closet is

to shut away for private discussion.

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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    closet

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia closet) (en noun)
  • (chiefly, US) A piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored.
  • (Dryden)
  • A small private chamber.
  • * Goldsmith
  • a chair-lumbered closet , just twelve feet by nine
  • * Bible, Matthew vi. 6
  • When thou prayest, enter into thy closet .
  • 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.
  • The'' 'closet''' can be a scary place for a gay teenager.

    Synonyms

    * (A piece of furniture) cupboard, wardrobe, press (British), locker, cabinet

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Secret.
  • *
  • Derived terms

    * closeted * closet oneself * come out of the closet * earth closet * in the closet * skeleton in the closet * water closet

    See also

    * come out * out

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shut away for private discussion.
  • The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
  • To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
  • * (rfdate) (Bancroft)
  • He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
  • * (rfdate) (Froude)
  • He had been closeted with De Quadra.
  • To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
  • * (rfdate) (Cowper)
  • Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.

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