cabinetとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.bɪ.nɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.bɪ.nɪt/, /ˈkæb.nɪt/
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.bə.nət/, /ˈkæb.nət/

名詞

cabinet (複数形 cabinets)

Cabinet; by Francesco Del Tuppo; circa 1606-1623

1. A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
2. A cupboard.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 3, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     ‘[…] 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—’

3. The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game.
4. (historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
   • 1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal In Bohemia, Norton (2005), p. 19,

     Holmes took a note of it. “One other question,” said he. “Was the photograph a cabinet?”

5. A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
6. (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.
7. (archaic) A small chamber or private room.
   • (Can we date this quote by Prescott かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.

8. (often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.
9. (dialectal, Rhode Island) Milkshake.
   • 2012, Linda Beaulieu, Providence & Rhode Island Cookbook: Big Recipes from the Smallest State, p. 268:

     One of Rhode Island's most famous beverages is the Awful Awful, an enormous 32-ounce, rich, creamy milk shake sold at the Newport Creamery stores, a soda fountain and casual restaurant chain. This ultra-thick cabinet is "awful big and awful good," thus the name.

10. (obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.
    • (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

      Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, / The rural song of careful Colinet.

11. An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.

派生語

• kitchen cabinet
• war cabinet

参考

• animal cabinet
• armoire
• salon

アナグラム

• bacinet