Locker vs Closet - What's the difference?
locker | closet | Synonyms |
A type of storage compartment with a lock usually used to store clothing, equipment, or books.
(rare) One who locks something.
(chiefly, US) A piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored.
A small private chamber.
* Goldsmith
* Bible, Matthew vi. 6
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.
Secret.
*
To shut away for private discussion.
To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
* (rfdate) (Bancroft)
* (rfdate) (Froude)
To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
* (rfdate) (Cowper)
Closet is a synonym of locker.
As nouns the difference between locker and closet
is that locker is a type of storage compartment with a lock usually used to store clothing, equipment, or books 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.locker
English
Noun
(en noun)- The student placed her books in her locker when she arrived at school.
- The locker of the trapped chest must be careful, so as not to spring the trap.
Synonyms
* (storage compartment ): footlockerDerived terms
* locker roomSee also
* chest * trunkAnagrams
* ----closet
English
Noun
(wikipedia closet) (en noun)- (Dryden)
- a chair-lumbered closet , just twelve feet by nine
- When thou prayest, enter into thy closet .
- The'' 'closet''' can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
Synonyms
* (A piece of furniture) cupboard, wardrobe, press (British), locker, cabinetAdjective
(-)Derived terms
* closeted * closet oneself * come out of the closet * earth closet * in the closet * skeleton in the closet * water closetSee also
* come out * outVerb
(en verb)- The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
- He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
- He had been closeted with De Quadra.
- Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.