cabinet

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An upright, cupboardlike repository with shelves, drawers, or compartments for the safekeeping or display of objects.
• noun Computers The box that houses the main components of a computer, such as the central processing unit, disk drives, and expansion slots.
• noun 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.
• noun Archaic A small or private room set aside for a specific activity.
• adjective Suitable for storage or display in a cabinet, as because of size or decorative quality.
• adjective Of, relating to, or being a member of a governmental cabinet.
• adjective Used in the making of cabinets.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To inclose in or as in a cabinet.
• noun A little cabin; a small habitation or retreat.
• noun A small room; a retired apartment; a closet.
• noun A private room in which consultations are held; specifically, the closet or private apartment in which a sovereign confers with his privy council or most trusted ministers.
• noun Hence An executive council; the select council of a sovereign or of an executive government; the collective body of ministers who direct the government of a nation or country.
• noun A meeting or session of a cabinet council.
• noun A piece of furniture having shelves or drawers, or both, or simply cupboards inclosed with doors; especially, one of ornamental character, decorated with carving, inlaying, painting, lacquer, medallions of painted porcelain, or enamel or metal appliqués.
• noun Any part of a building, or one or more whole buildings, set apart for the conservation of works of art, antiquities, etc.; hence, by metonymy, the collection itself: as, a mineral cabinet.
• noun In printing, an inclosed frame for printers' cases, generally used for job-type.
• Confidential; secret; private.
• Relating to a cabinet; belonging to or constituting a body of ministers of state: as, a cabinet minister; a cabinet council.
• Belonging to a private collection, private cellar, or the like, and therefore presumably of superior quality: as, cabinet wines.
• Hence Of such size, beauty, or value as to be kept in a cabinet, or to be fitted for use in a private chamber: as, a cabinet edition of a book; a cabinet organ; a cabinet pianoforte; a cabinet picture; cabinet photographs.
• A council held with privacy; the confidential council of a prince or an executive magistrate; a council of cabinet ministers held with privacy to deliberate upon public affairs.
• The members of a privy council; a select number of confidential counselors; specifically, same as cabinet, I., 4.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Suitable for a cabinet; small.
• intransitive verb rare To inclose.
• noun obsolete A hut; a cottage; a small house.
• noun A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.
• noun A private room in which consultations are held.
• noun The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.
• noun A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence
• noun A decorative piece of furniture, whether open like an étagère or closed with doors. See Étagère.
• noun Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.
• noun A meeting of the cabinet.
• noun a member of a cabinet council.
• noun a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carte de visite.
• noun a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.
• noun historical A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".
• noun A group of advisors to a government or business entity.
• noun 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.
• noun archaic A small chamber or private room.
• noun often capitalized a collection of art or ethnographic objects
• noun dialectal, Rhode Island milkshake

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
• noun a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
• noun persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
• noun a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display