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cabinet 音標拼音: [k'æbənət] [k'æbnət] n. 柜子,櫥子,箱子;內閣,內閣會議
a. 內閣的;秘密的 櫃子,櫥子,箱子;內閣,內閣會議內閣的;秘密的 cabinet櫃 cabinet n 1: a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display 2: persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers 3: a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock [ synonym: { cabinet}, { locker}, { storage locker}] 4: housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television [ synonym: { cabinet}, { console}] Cabinet \ Cab" i* net\ ( k[ a^] b"[ i^]* n[ e^] t), n. [ F., dim. of cabine or cabane. See { Cabin}, n.] 1. A hut; a cottage; a small house. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A small room, or retired apartment; a closet. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A private room in which consultations are held. [ 1913 Webster] Philip passed some hours every day in his father' s cabinet. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] 4. The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council. [ 1913 Webster] Note: In England, the cabinet or cabinet council consists of those privy councilors who actually transact the immediate business of the government. -- Mozley & W. -- In the United States, the cabinet is composed of the heads of the executive departments of the government, namely, the Secretary of State, of the Treasury, of War, of the Navy, of the Interior, and of Agiculture, the Postmaster- general, and the Attorney- general. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( a) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence: ( b) A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an [' e] tag[` e] re or closed with doors. See {[' e] tag[` e] re}. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself. [ 1913 Webster] { Cabinet council}. ( a) Same as { Cabinet}, n., 4 ( of which body it was formerly the full title). ( b) A meeting of the cabinet. { Cabinet councilor}, a member of a cabinet council. { Cabinet photograph}, a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a { carte de visite}. { Cabinet picture}, a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection. [ 1913 Webster]
Cabinet \ Cab" i* net\, a. Suitable for a cabinet; small. [ 1913 Webster] He [ Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. -- For. Quar. Rev. [ 1913 Webster]
Cabinet \ Cab" i* net\, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. { Cabineted}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Cabineting}.] To inclose [ R.] -- Hewyt. [ 1913 Webster] 131 Moby Thesaurus words for " cabinet": British Cabinet, Canterbury, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisors, advisory body, advisory council, adytum, armoire, assembly, association, bench, board, board of directors, board of regents, board of trustees, body of advisers, booking office, borough council, box office, brain trust, branch, branch office, buffet, bunker, bureau, cadre, camarilla, cellaret, chamber, chambers, chancellery, chancery, chassis, chest, chest of drawers, chiffonier, city council, closet, clothespress, committee, commode, common council, conference, congress, console, consulate, consultative assembly, corporate headquarters, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, credenza, cupboard, davenport, deliberative assembly, den, desk, diet, directorate, directory, divan, drawer, dresser, embassy, escritoire, executive arm, executive committee, executive hierarchy, executive office, governing board, governing body, headquarters, holy of holies, home office, housing, infrastructure, interlocking directorate, junta, kitchen cabinet, legation, legislature, locker, lowboy, main office, management, ministry, office, parish council, press, privy council, radio, radio receiver, radio set, radio telescope, receiver, receiving set, retreat, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum, secretaire, secretary, set, shadow cabinet, shelf, shop, sideboard, soviet, staff, steering committee, study, syndicate, synod, tallboy, the administration, the brass, the executive, the people upstairs, ticket office, top brass, tribunal, vargueno, vitrine, wardrobe, whatnot, wireless, wireless set |
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