cabin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
tourism
transport
travel
Etymology: From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.
Inflected forms:
form: cabins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cabins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cabining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cabined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cabined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.
And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.
gloss: A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A private room on a ship.
pos: noun
examples: the captain’s cabin
Passengers shall remain in their cabins.
There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
gloss: The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
gloss: The passenger area of an airplane.
pos: noun
gloss: The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
pos: noun
gloss: A signal box.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A small room; an enclosed place.
pos: noun
examples: So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
gloss: A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
pos: noun
tags: India
examples: There’s Kaul’s boss, the overweight owner of a pharmaceutical firm who spends his days wolfing down junk food in the privacy of his cabin.
gloss: To place in a cabin or other small space.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To limit the scope of.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).
gloss: To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.
Synonyms: cell
chamber
pod
Related words: cabana
Derived words: aftercabin
cabin attendant
cabin bed
cabin boy
cabin car
cabin class
cabin compass
cabin crew
cabin-cruiser
cabin cruiser
cabinet
cabinette
cabin fever
cabinful
cabin hook
cabinless
cabinlike
cabinmate
forecabin
great cabin
in-cabin
log cabin
portacabin
pressure cabin
signal cabin
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