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cab·i·net

(kăb′ə-nĭt)

1. An upright, cupboardlike repository with shelves, drawers, or compartments for the safekeeping or display of objects.

2. Computers The box that houses the main components of a computer, such as the central processing unit, disk drives, and expansion slots.

3. often Cabinet A body of persons appointed by a head of state or a prime minister to head the executive departments of the government and to act as official advisers.

4. Archaic A small or private room set aside for a specific activity.

5. Rhode Island & Southeastern Massachusetts See milkshake.

adj.

1. Suitable for storage or display in a cabinet, as because of size or decorative quality.

2. Of, relating to, or being a member of a governmental cabinet: cabinet matters; a cabinet minister.

3. Used in the making of cabinets: teak and other heavy cabinet wood.

[French, partly from diminutive of Old North French cabine, gambling-room (perhaps alteration of Old French cabane, small house; see cabin) and partly from Italian gabinetto, closet, chest of drawers; akin to Old North French cabine. N., sense 5, possibly from the square wooden container in which the mixer was encased.]

cab′i·net·ful n.

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cabinet

(ˈkæbɪnɪt)

1. (Furniture)

a. a piece of furniture containing shelves, cupboards, or drawers for storage or display

b. (as modifier): cabinet teak.

2. (Furniture) the outer case of a television, radio, etc

3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy)

a. (often capital) the executive and policy-making body of a country, consisting of all government ministers or just the senior ministers

b. (sometimes capital) an advisory council to a president, sovereign, governor, etc

c. (as modifier): a cabinet reshuffle; a cabinet minister.

4. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding)

a. a standard size of paper, 6 × 4 inches (15 × 10 cm) or 6 × 4 inches (16.5 × 10.5 cm), for mounted photographs

b. (as modifier): a cabinet photograph.

5. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) printing an enclosed rack for holding cases of type, etc

6. archaic a private room

7. (modifier) suitable in size, value, decoration, etc, for a display cabinet: a cabinet edition of Shakespeare.

8. (Surveying) (modifier) (of a drawing or projection of a three-dimensional object) constructed with true horizontal and vertical representation of scale but with oblique distances reduced to about half scale to avoid the appearance of distortion

9. (Brewing) (modifier) (of a wine) specially selected and usually rare

[C16: from Old French, diminutive of cabine, of uncertain origin]

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cab•i•net

(ˈkæb ə nɪt, ˈkæb nɪt)

n.

1. a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a file cabinet; a curio cabinet.

2. a wall cupboard used for storage, as of kitchen utensils or toilet articles.

3. the case enclosing a radio, television, loudspeaker, etc.

4. (often cap.) a council advising a sovereign or a chief executive; the group of persons who help to manage a government.

5. (often cap.) (in the U.S.) an advisory body to the president, consisting of the heads of the executive departments of the federal government.

6. a small case with compartments for valuables or other small objects.

7. Archaic. a small, private room.

adj.

8. of or pertaining to a political cabinet: a cabinet meeting.

9. of, pertaining to, or used by a cabinetmaker or in cabinetmaking.

[1540–50; < Middle French, derivative of cabine hut, room on a ship]

cabinet

- Originally meant a small room and came to apply to the group of politicians who met in the room.

Cabinet

a body of persons, usually a limited number, of the ministers of state of a country, 1630; a secret store-house, hence, its contents.

Examples: cabinet of animal functions, 1667; of my secret thoughts, 1549; of his secret will, 1634.

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Noun	1.	cabinet - a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display china cabinet, china closet - a cabinet (usually with glass doors) for storing and displaying china dresser - a cabinet with shelves article of furniture, furniture, piece of furniture - furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room" medicine cabinet, medicine chest - cabinet that holds medicines and toiletries shelf - a support that consists of a horizontal surface for holding objects
	2.	cabinet - persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers cabinet minister - the job of a senior minister who is a member of the cabinet advisory board, planning board - a board appointed to advise the chief administrator 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
	3.	cabinet - a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock locker, storage locker compartment - a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area glory hole, lazaretto - a small locker at the stern of a boat or between decks of a ship 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
	4.	cabinet - housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television console housing - a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component

cabinet

noun

1. cupboard, case, locker, dresser, closet, press, chiffonier a display cabinet with gleaming trophies

2. (often cap.) council, committee, administration, ministry, assembly, board The radically-changed Cabinet of the Prime Minister includes eight new ministers see cupboards and cabinets

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Translations

خِزَانَةخَزانَةٌ ذات أدْراجمَجْلِسُ وُزَراء

skříňkavládakabinet

skabregering

Kabinett Schrank Schränkchen Gehäuse

υπουργικό συμβούλιο ντουλάπι

armario gabinete vitrina

hallitus

cabinet armoire bureau meuble de rangement

ormarić

ríkisstjórnskjalaskápur

armadio gabinetto ministero ombra stipo vetrinetta

キャビネット内閣

캐비닛

ministrų kabinetasspinta

ministru kabinetsskapītis

kabinet

kabinetomara

skåp

คณะรัฐมนตรี

dolap kabineBakanlar Kurulubüfe

tủ có nhiều ngăn

储藏柜内阁厨柜

cabinet

[ˈkæbɪnɪt]

A. N

1. (= cupboard) → armario m; (for display) → vitrina f; (for medicine) → botiquín m (Rad, TV) → caja f

2. (Pol) (also Cabinet) → consejo m de ministros, gabinete m ministerial

B. CPD cabinet crisis N → crisis f inv del gobierno
cabinet meeting N → consejo m de ministros
Cabinet Minister N → ministro/a m/f (del Gabinete)

CABINET

El Consejo de Ministros británico (Cabinet) se compone de unos veinte ministros, escogidos por el Primer Ministro (Prime Minister). Su función es la de planificar la legislación importante y defender la política del Gobierno en los debates.

En Estados Unidos el Cabinet tiene meramente carácter consultivo, su función es aconsejar al Presidente. Sus miembros, escogidos por él y nombrados con el consentimiento del Senado (Senate), son jefes de departamentos ejecutivos o altos cargos del gobierno, pero no pueden ser miembros del Congreso (Congress). Existe otro grupo de asesores del Presidente, que actúan a un nivel menos oficial, que se conoce como kitchen cabinet.

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cabinet

[ˈkæbɪnɪt] n

(= cupboard) → petit placard m bathroom cabinet, drinks cabinet

(also display cabinet) → vitrine f (meuble)

cabinet

Cabinet [ˈkæbɪnɪt] n (= senior government ministers) → cabinet mcabinet-maker [ˌkæbɪnɪtˈmeɪkə^r] n → ébéniste mcabinet meeting Cabinet meeting n (British) → Conseil m des ministrescabinet minister Cabinet minister n → ministre mf (membre du cabinet)cabin fever n

(MEDICINE) → fièvre f noire

(fig) → sentiment m d'enfermement

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cabinet

→ Schränkchen nt; (for display) → Vitrine f; (for TV etc) → Schrank m, → Truhe f; (= loudspeaker cabinet) → Box f

(Parl) → Kabinett nt, → Regierungsmannschaft f (inf)

cabinet

cabinet edition

n (= book) → bibliophile Ausgabe

cabinet-maker

n → (Möbel)tischler(in) m(f), → (Möbel)schreiner(in) m(f)

cabinet-making

n → Tischlern nt, → Tischlerei f

cabinet meeting

n → Kabinettssitzung f

cabinet minister

n → ˜ Mitglied nt → des Kabinetts, Minister(in) m(f)

cabinet reshuffle

n (Brit Pol) → Kabinettsumbildung f

cabinet-size

adj (Phot) → im Kabinettformat

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cabinet

[ˈkæbɪnɪt] n

a. (cupboard) → armadietto; (glass-fronted) → vetrina

b. (Pol) (also Cabinet) → Consiglio dei Ministri

cabinet

(ˈkӕbinit) noun

1. a piece of furniture with shelves and doors or drawers. a filing cabinet.

2. in Britain and some other countries the group of chief ministers who govern a country. The Prime Minister has chosen a new Cabinet.

cabinet

→ خِزَانَة skříňka skab Schränkchen ντουλάπι armario hallitus cabinet ormarić armadietto キャビネット 캐비닛 kast skap szafka armário стеллаж skåp คณะรัฐมนตรี dolap tủ có nhiều ngăn 储藏柜

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"Your Excellency, we are unable to agree upon a Favourite Son to represent us in your Cabinet."

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My brain could not think the proper thoughts because continually it was obsessed with the one thought that across the room in the liquor cabinet stood John Barleycorn.

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In one room, which looked like a lady's sitting-room, the hangings were all embroidered velvet, and in a cabinet were about a hundred little elephants made of ivory.

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The two Musketeers with whom we have already made acquaintance, and who answered to the last of these three names, immediately quitted the group of which they had formed a part, and advanced toward the cabinet, the door of which closed after them as soon as they had entered.

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"Since that is the case," replied D'Artagnan, wounded to the heart; "since the captain of the musketeers, who has always entered the king's chamber, is no longer allowed to enter it, his cabinet, or his salle-a- manger , either the king is dead, or his captain is in disgrace.

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Also the Page, aroused by my cries, had left his room, and under pretext of ascertaining whether I had fallen somewhere in a faint, was prying into the cabinet in my study.

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That is the actual phrase used by the Vienna cabinet," said the Danish charge d'affaires.

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But she would not make up her fire; that would seem cowardly, as if she wished for the protection of light after she were in bed." The fire therefore died away, and Catherine, having spent the best part of an hour in her arrangements, was beginning to think of stepping into bed, when, on giving a parting glance round the room, she was struck by the appearance of a high, old-fashioned black cabinet, which, though in a situation conspicuous enough, had never caught her notice before.

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Her next experiment was made on the cabinet. Would the second attempt fail, like the first?

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Beginning with the cabinet in the right-hand corner, my investigations were soon completed.

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She took me in her own hand, and carried me to the king, who was then retired to his cabinet. His majesty, a prince of much gravity and austere countenance, not well observing my shape at first view, asked the queen after a cold manner "how long it was since she grew fond of a SPLACNUCK?" for such it seems he took me to be, as I lay upon my breast in her majesty's right hand.

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They know the private views of every one of the Cabinet Ministers.

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