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Commode vs Cabinet - What's the difference?

commode | cabinet |

In historical terms the difference between commode and cabinet

is that commode is a kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height while cabinet is a size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".

As nouns the difference between commode and cabinet

is that commode is a low chest of drawers on short legs while cabinet is a storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.

commode

English

Noun

(wikipedia commode) (en noun)
  • A low chest of drawers on short legs.
  • A stand for a washbowl and jug.
  • A chair containing a chamber pot.
  • (euphemistic) A toilet.
  • (historical) A kind of woman's headdress, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height.
  • * Granville
  • Or under high commodes , with looks erect.

    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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