Etymology : Middle French, small room, diminutive of Old North French cabine gambling house
Pronunciation : 'kab-nit, 'ka-b&-
Function : noun
Date : circa 1550
1. chest; small room; government cabinet of ministers; office. cabinet\cab"i*net\ (kăb"&ibreve;*n&ebreve;t), n. [f., dim. of cabine or cabane. see:
cabin, n.].
2. a hut; a cottage; a small house. [obs.] hearken a while from thy green cabinet, the rural song of careful colinet.
3. a small room, or retired apartment; a closet.
4. a private room in which consultations are held. philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet.
5. the advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.note: in england, the cabinet or cabinet council consists of those privy councilors who actually transact the immediate business of the government. -- 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.
6. (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 étagère or closed with doors. see:
etagère.
7. any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.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.cabinet \cab"i*net\, a. suitable for a cabinet; small. he [varnhagen von ense] is a walking cabinet edition of goethe. quar. rev.cabinet \cab"i*net\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. cabineted; p. pr. & vb. n. cabineting.] to inclose [r.].
8. A hut; a cottage; a small house.
9. A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.
10. A private room in which consultations are held.
11. The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.
12. A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value.
13. Hence: A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an étagère or closed with doors.
14. See Étagère.
15. Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.
16. Suitable for a cabinet; small.
17. To inclose a cupboard-like repository or piece of furniture with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers.
18. 1. A cabinet is a cupboard used for storing things such as medicine or alcoholic drinks or for displaying decorative things in. He looked at the display cabinet with its gleaming sets of glasses. see also:
filing cabinet.
19. The Cabinet is a group of the most senior ministers in a government, who meet regularly to discuss policies. The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street. a former Cabinet Minister. Body of senior ministers or, in the U.S., advisers to a chief executive, whose members also serve as the heads of government departments. The cabinet has become an integral part of parliamentary government in many countries, though its form varies. It developed from the British Privy Council, when King Charles II and Queen Anne regularly consulted the council's leading members to reach decisions before meeting with the unwieldy full council. The modern British cabinet consists of departmental ministers, drawn from the members of Parliament and appointed by the prime minister. In the U.S., the cabinet serves as an advisory group to the president without the sanction of law. Members' appointments are subject to Senate approval, and the U.S. Constitution sets cabinet members' order of succession to the presidency. The cabinet includes the secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Education, Energy, and Veterans Affairs and the attorney general.
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