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/
  • 韻: (General American with weak vowel merger) -æbnət

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, a cab.
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.
   • 1955, Truman, Harry S, Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions‎^[2], volume I, Signet Books, published 1965, OCLC 633884574, OL 10270721M, page 364:

     Lincoln had a great deal of trouble with his Cabinet because some of them got it into their heads that they, and not the President, were the policy-makers. James K. Polk had the same difficulty with his Cabinet. Franklin Roosevelt never had any difficulty with his Cabinet for the simple reason that he himself, in my opinion, spent too much time doing the work that should have been delegated to the Cabinet.

   1. (Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.
      • 2003, A Handbook for Gubernatorial Transition in Kentucky‎^[3], w:Legislative Research Commission, page 49:

        The executive branch of Kentucky state government is structured on a program cabinet system consisting of 14 program cabinets, each headed by a secretary, who is appointed by the Governor. The program cabinets listed below and the agencies within each cabinet are designated in the statutes.

7. (archaic) A small chamber or private room.
   • 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, OCLC 645131689:

     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.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Aegloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809:

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

11. An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.

同意語

• (cabinet-level agency in the executive branch): cabinet agency, cabinet department, program cabinet (まれに), superagency (California)

派生語

参考

• animal cabinet
• armoire
• salon

アナグラム

• bacinet