Union vs Cabinet - What's the difference?
union | cabinet |
(countable) The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one.
(uncountable) The state of being united or joined.
(countable) That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.
(countable) A trade union; a workers' union.
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, title= (countable) A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.
(countable, set theory) The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.
(countable) The act or state of marriage.
(uncountable, archaic, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse.
(countable, computing) A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
A large, high-quality pearl.
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A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
(New England) cupboard
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, chapter=3 (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3?" by 5½".
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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.
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(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
(dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
(obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between union and cabinet
is that union is union (action and result) while cabinet is a storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.union
English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
- Nonius the senator hath a purple coat as stiff with jewels as his mind is full of vices; rings on his fingers worth 20,000 sesterces, andan union in his ear worth an hundred pounds' weight of gold […].
Synonyms
* junction, coalition, combinationDerived terms
* banjo union * enterprise union * trades union, trade union * union card * unionised, unionized * European Union * Soviet UnionSee also
* intersection * (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* ----cabinet
English
Noun
(en noun)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—’}}
- 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.