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CABINET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cabinet" is a kind of...):
article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)
Meronyms (parts of "cabinet"):
shelf (a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabinet"):
china cabinet; china closet (a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china)
dresser (a cabinet with shelves)
medicine cabinet; medicine chest (cabinet that holds medicines and toiletries)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
Synonyms:
cabinet; console
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cabinet" is a kind of...):
housing (a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
Synonyms:
cabinet; locker; storage locker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cabinet" is a kind of...):
compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabinet"):
glory hole; lazaretto (a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship)
Holonyms ("cabinet" is a part of...):
locker room (a room (as at an athletic facility or workplace) where you can change clothes and which contains lockers for the temporary storage of your clothing and personal possessions)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("cabinet" is a kind of...):
advisory board; planning board (a board appointed to advise the chief administrator)
Meronyms (members of "cabinet"):
cabinet minister (the job of a senior minister who is a member of the cabinet)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabinet"):
British Cabinet (the senior ministers of the British government)
shadow cabinet (a group of senior members of the political party that is out of power; these members would probably assume corresponding positions as ministers in the British Cabinet if their party was elected)
United States Cabinet; US Cabinet (a board to advise the President; members are the secretaries of executive departments; the United States constitution does not provide for the cabinet)
Context examples:
I was invited to a week-end gathering at the country house of a cabinet minister.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He handed it to me and closed the door of his oak cabinet.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One drawer of the cabinet contained a real 0.38-caliber handgun that had been modified so it could not fire, although the gun's hammer and trigger were still functional.
(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was lined with books, and there were pictures and statues, and distracting little cabinets full of coins and curiosities, and Sleepy Hollow chairs, and queer tables, and bronzes, and best of all, a great open fireplace with quaint tiles all round it.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Take steps to keep your children safe: • Install the right child safety seat in your car • Teach children how to cross the street safely • Make sure they wear the right gear and equipment for sports • Install and test smoke alarms • Store medicines, cleaners and other dangerous substances in locked cabinets • Babyproof your home • Don't leave small children unattended
(Child Safety, NIH)
Books of engravings, drawers of medals, cameos, corals, shells, and every other family collection within his cabinets, had been prepared for his old friend, to while away the morning; and the kindness had perfectly answered.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
We are now going to interview Lord Holdhurst, the cabinet minister and future premier of England.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A dismal screech, as of mere animal terror, rang from the cabinet.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I got it cleaned, and put it into my cabinet.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
