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What is the difference between cabinet and drawer?

cabinet | drawer |

As nouns the difference between cabinet and drawer

is that cabinet is a storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall while drawer is an open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.

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

    Anagrams

    * ----

    drawer

    English

    (wikipedia drawer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
  • (non-gloss definition); one who draws.
  • * 2012 August 28, Manny Fernandez, “ Federal Court Finds Texas Voting Maps Discriminatory”, NYTimes.com :
  • Lawyers for Mr. Abbott argued that the maps were drawn to help Republicans maintain power but not to discriminate, and that drawers did not know where district offices were located.
  • * '>citation
  • An artist who primarily makes drawings.
  • (banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
  • A barman; a man who draws the beer from the taps.
  • *
  • When the good lieutenant applied himself to the door, he applied himself likewise to the bell; and the drawer immediately attending, he dispatched him for a file of musqueteers and a surgeon.
  • Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.(w)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
  • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer . He had disappeared.}}

    Derived terms

    * chest of drawers * not the sharpest knife in the drawer * top drawer

    See also

    * drawers

    Anagrams

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