Cabin - English meaning

noun

A ship's allotted place at a wharf or dock.

Usage examples:

The vessel had left its berth

verb

Moor (a ship) in its allotted place.

Usage examples:

They planned to berth hms impregnable at portsmouth

noun

A bed in a boat or train, or a place for a ship or boat to stay in a port

noun

(in scotland) a small hut or cottage, especially one for housing farm labourers or for use as a mountain refuge.

Usage examples:

In east kilbride, some of these lived in bothies on the farms, but most were based in the pow camp,…

noun

(in scotland) a small, simple building on a hill for walkers to shelter in, or one that is used on a farm for workers to live in

Usage examples:

Don't assume you will find a bothy to shelter in and walk into the wilderness without an alternative.

noun

A taxi.

Usage examples:

She hailed a cab

verb

Travel in a taxi.

Usage examples:

Roger cabbed home

noun

A cabinet containing a speaker or speakers for a guitar amplifier.

Usage examples:

Besides the speaker in the cab is a fairly high quality one, while the little 8 incher is a farty l…

noun

A hut, cabin, or shelter at a beach or swimming pool.

Usage examples:

A few of us have some drinks at a beach cabana near the hotel and a kid comes by offering, rather a…

noun

A wooden house with overhanging eaves, typically found in the swiss alps.

Usage examples:

Although the predominant style is the traditional log cabin, other styles range from swiss chalets …

noun

A small, wooden house found in the mountains and used esp. by people on vacation

noun

A separate section or part of a structure or container.

Usage examples:

There's some ice cream in the freezer compartment

verb

Divide (something) into separate parts or sections.

Usage examples:

The buildings are to be compartmented by fire walls

noun

Any of the enclosed parts into which a space, a vehicle, or an object used for storing things is divided

Usage examples:

She folded her coat and put it in the overhead luggage compartment.

noun

A small bed with high barred sides for a baby or very young child.

Usage examples:

He should be put back into his cot to sleep

noun

A small shelter for livestock.

abbreviation

Cotangent.

Usage examples:

Tangent is usually abbreviated to tan and cotangent to cot.

noun

A cabin on the deck of a ship or boat, used for navigation or accommodation.

Usage examples:

The vessel is dual decked and the aluminium deckhouse is fitted aft of midship.

noun

A cabin in the forward part of a vessel.

Usage examples:

Accomodation consists of a double forecabin and double aft cabin with additional berths in the salo…

noun

An aboriginal bush hut, typically made of sheets of bark and branches.

Usage examples:

Expanding out into the surrounds, a composition of gunyahs or humpies - derived from a ‘fire dreami…

adjective

Humped in form; having a hump.

Usage examples:

Straddling a sharp turn of the wuyang river, its picturesque jumble of stone and concrete houses li…

noun

A makeshift hut.

Usage examples:

She wept in the tin humpy at the back of the store

adjective

Having a hump or humps (= large, round raised areas or parts)

Usage examples:

The narrow track wound its way through a humpy desert landscape., the humpy piles of rock and soil …

noun

A small, simple, single-storey house or shelter.

Usage examples:

A beach hut

verb

Provide with huts.

Usage examples:

It will be advisable to hut the troops, for their protection during the cold season

noun

A small, simple house or shelter

Usage examples:

A thatched hut

adjective

Abbreviation for missing in action: used for saying that a member of the armed forces has not returned from fighting in a war but is not known for certain to be dead

Usage examples:

High numbers of military were still listed as mia., this is done routinely to identify the remains …

adjective

Abbreviation for missing in action: used for saying that a member of the armed forces has not returned from fighting in a war but is not known for certain to be dead

Usage examples:

High numbers of military were still listed as mia., this is done routinely to identify the remains …

adjective

Abbreviation for missing in action: used for saying that someone or something has disappeared and you do not know where they are

Usage examples:

Adam just went mia on nina and stopped answering her calls., brady told bob that his jersey was mia.

noun

Space that can be occupied or where something can be done.

Usage examples:

There's only room for a single bed in there

verb

Share a room, house, or flat, especially a rented one at a college or similar institution.

Usage examples:

I was rooming with my cousin

noun

An area within a building that has its own walls, floor, ceiling, and door

Usage examples:

The house has a laundry room., is there any room for me in the car?, fig. she writes better, but th…

noun

A railway locomotive maintenance shed built around a turntable.

Usage examples:

The complex included a roundhouse built in 1924, and a massive back shop, constructed in 1905, alon…

noun

A roughly built hut or cabin.

Usage examples:

In tents, shacks, log cabins and frame dwellings, pioneers gathered together for protection.

verb

Move in or live with someone as a lover.

Usage examples:

They won't believe i've shacked up with someone so good-looking

noun

A simple, small building

Usage examples:

The family lived in a one-room shack.

noun

A small, crudely built shack.

Usage examples:

They were replaced by shanties and shacks built of nothing more than clapboard or wattle and daub w…

noun

A song with alternating solo and chorus, of a kind originally sung by sailors while performing physical labour together.

Usage examples:

At copley, he also exhibited a continuous 80 slide projection, coupled with an audiotape, showing a…

noun

A small, badly built house, usually made from pieces of wood, metal, or cardboard, in which poor people live

Usage examples:

He lived in a little shanty in the desert, miles from anything else.

noun

A matter, operation, or set of circumstances.

Usage examples:

The mafia boss who's running the whole shebang

noun

The whole of something, including everything that is connected with it

Usage examples:

The wedding's next week, but my parents are taking care of the whole shebang.

noun

A simple roofed structure used for garden storage, to shelter animals, or as a workshop.

Usage examples:

A bicycle shed

verb

Park (a vehicle) in a depot.

Usage examples:

The buses were temporarily shedded in that depot

verb

(of a tree or other plant) allow (leaves or fruit) to fall to the ground.

Usage examples:

Both varieties shed leaves in winter

noun

A roughly constructed hut used while pasturing animals.

Usage examples:

There they lived in settlements of temporary huts called in ireland booleys (irish ‘buaile’, ‘cattl…

noun

A large room in a palace or public building, for use on formal occasions.

Usage examples:

The salzburg mozart soloists appear regularly in the staterooms of the mirabell palace.

noun

A large room, for example in a castle or palace, used for formal or important occasions

Usage examples:

The staterooms at windsor castle, the prize is an inside stateroom on a 7-night cruise.

verb

Move or cause to move into a sloping position.

Usage examples:

The floor tilted slightly

noun

A sloping position or movement.

Usage examples:

The tilt of her head

verb

Lean over; tip

noun

A maori hut or house.

Usage examples:

By mid september there were than 2,000 people in the settlement, 250 good houses had been built, an…