Shrunk vs Cabinet - What's the difference?
shrunk | cabinet |
(shrink)
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 (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3?" by 5½".
* 1891 , , A Scandal In Bohemia , Norton (2005), p. 19,
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
(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
(dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
(obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
* Spenser
As a verb shrunk
is (shrink).As a noun cabinet is
a storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.shrunk
English
Verb
(head)Usage notes
In casual use, found even in careful speech, interchangeable with shrank; in careful formal use, only used for past participle "I have'' shrunk ", while ''shrank is used for the past tense "I shrank". Compare sank/sunk. The inconsistent usage is due to the fact that shrink is a (Germanic strong verb), hence conjugated via ablaut (change of vowel rather than adding ), but these are irregular in modern English. The past tense "shrunk" is derived from the Old English plural past "scruncon". The same form is found in other past tenses, such as "slunk". The 1989 movie '' (formally: ''Honey, I Shrank the Kids'' or ''Honey, I've Shrunk the Kids ) is an example of the prevalence of the casual form. Note that in the 1844 translation of the , the form "shrank" is used inIV Maccabees 14:4] ("None of the seven youths turned cowardly, or shrank back from death", singular subject), whereas "shrunk" is used in [http://ebible.org/eng-Brenton/1MA03.htm I Maccabees 3:6("Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand", plural subject). The preferred form when used adjectivally is "shrunken".
Usage notes
* "shrunk/shrank", Paul Brians * "
ON LANGUAGE; How 'Shrunk' Snuck In", by (William Safire), July 16, 1995, New York Times
cabinet
English
Noun
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- Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet ?”
- Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.
- Hearken a while from thy green cabinet , / The rural song of careful Colinet.