Noun

(en noun)

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

(New England) cupboard

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(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.

Noun

(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.

There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.

(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.

''The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.

(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.

He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.

The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.

The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure .

(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.

The enclosure of public land is against the law.

The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.

At first, untrained horses resist enclosure .

(uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.

Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure .

The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.