Closet - English meaning

noun

A cupboard with shelves or drawers for storing or displaying articles.

Usage examples:

A cocktail cabinet

noun

A storage compartment for clothes and valuables

noun

A piece of furniture with shelves or drawers that is used for storing useful things or showing decorative things

Usage examples:

A medicine cabinet, in the us, the secretary of defense is a member of the president’s cabinet.

adjective

Kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.

Usage examples:

She deserved better than these clandestine meetings

adjective

Planned or done in secret

Usage examples:

A clandestine meeting, the virus clandestinely burrowed its way into computers across the globe.

noun

A covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side.

Usage examples:

The shadowed cloisters of the convent

verb

Seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery.

Usage examples:

The monastery was where the brothers would cloister themselves to meditate

adjective

Kept secret; hidden.

Usage examples:

A concealed weapon

verb

Not allow to be seen; hide.

Usage examples:

A line of sand dunes concealed the distant sea

adjective

Kept hidden or where it cannot easily be seen

Usage examples:

The robbery had been recorded on a concealed security camera., he was carrying a concealed weapon.,…

verb

Keep or restrict someone or something within certain limits of (space, scope, or time).

Usage examples:

He does not confine his message to high politics

noun

The borders or boundaries of a place, especially with regard to their restricting freedom of movement.

Usage examples:

Within the confines of the hall escape was difficult

verb

To keep someone or something within limits

Usage examples:

The animals were confined in a large pen., harris does not confine her stage work to broadway., can…

adjective

Not openly acknowledged or displayed.

Usage examples:

Covert operations against the dictatorship

noun

A thicket in which game can hide.

Usage examples:

I couldn't help but admire the beautifully laid out game crops and newly-planted coverts.

adjective

Hidden or secret

Usage examples:

Covert military operations

noun

A small partitioned-off area of a room, for example one containing a shower or toilet, or a desk in an office.

Usage examples:

Each cubicle is equipped with a pc and printer, and there are two fax machines in the east alcove

noun

A small room, often only large enough for one person, within a larger room or area

Usage examples:

A work cubicle

noun

A small office space that is made by putting up low walls in a larger room

Usage examples:

Rather than preside from an office, she sits in a cubicle among her employees., they work in cubicl…

noun

A recess or piece of furniture with a door and typically shelves, used for storage.

Usage examples:

A broom cupboard

noun

A small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

noun

A piece of furniture or a small part of a room with a door behind which there is space for storing things, usually on shelves

Usage examples:

Kitchen cupboards

adjective

Attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.

Usage examples:

They spent a furtive day together

adjective

Done or acting secretly and quietly to avoid being noticed

Usage examples:

They exchanged furtive gestures and words of encouragement., she glanced furtively at the papers on…

adjective

Past participle of hide1.

verb

Put or keep out of sight.

Usage examples:

He hid the money in the house

adjective

Used to describe costs that are not normally included in the original price of something, or are not normally considered when judging something

Usage examples:

Hidden charges/costs/extras, hidden fees/penalties, there are the hidden costs of climate change th…

verb

Protect (something) by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat or the intrusion of sound.

Usage examples:

Insulate and draught-proof your home

verb

To use a material to cover or go around the surface of something in order to prevent heat, electricity, etc., from escaping or entering

Usage examples:

We’ve saved a lot on our heating bills by insulating the attic., as a member of a rich and powerful…

verb

To protect someone or something from something that might harm them or it

Usage examples:

Insulate sb/sth against/from sth firms producing basic necessities are better insulated from the ef…

verb

Cause (a person or place) to be or remain alone or apart from others.

Usage examples:

A country which is isolated from the rest of the world

noun

A person or thing that has been or become isolated.

Usage examples:

Social isolates often become careless of their own welfare

verb

Place or set apart

noun

A small lockable cupboard or compartment, typically as one of a number placed together for public use, e.g. in schools or railway stations.

Usage examples:

We went to our lockers, conveniently close together, to get what we needed and whatnot.

noun

A cabinet, often tall and made of metal, in which someone can lock his or her possessions and leave them for a period of time

noun

One of a set of tall metal cupboards that are fastened to a wall and can be locked, in which employees, students, etc. can leave their possessions

Usage examples:

Nine employees had been laid off and were cleaning out their lockers.

adjective

Belonging to or for the use of one particular person or group of people only.

Usage examples:

All bedrooms have private facilities

noun

The lowest rank in the army, below lance corporal or private first class.

Usage examples:

He enlisted in the army in 1980 and was first assigned as a young private as a supply clerk in germ…

verb

Keep (someone) away from other people.

Usage examples:

I secluded myself up here for a life of study and meditation

verb

To keep someone or something away from other people or things

Usage examples:

Typically, the bride would seclude herself in another room.

adjective

Not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others.

Usage examples:

How did you guess i'd got a secret plan?

noun

Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.

Usage examples:

A state secret

noun

A piece of information that is not generally known or is not known by someone else and should not be told to others

Usage examples:

We don’t keep secrets from each other., don’t tell anyone – it’s a secret., what’s the secret of yo…

verb

Isolate or hide away.

Usage examples:

She is sequestered in deepest dorset

noun

Another term for sequestrate.

Usage examples:

Their property was sequestered by parliament

verb

To keep the people on a jury (= group deciding a legal case) separate from everyone else, even from their families, while deciding a case

Usage examples:

The judge refused to have the jury sequestered.

phrasal verb

Keep someone or something inside a place so as not to be seen or contacted by other people.

Usage examples:

Annabelle was shut away in the library for most of the day with a pile of books

phrasal verb

To put a person in a place that they are not allowed or able to leave

Usage examples:

He was ten years old when he was shut away for stealing an apple., the diamonds are shut away in a …

adjective

Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.

Usage examples:

Low wages were supplemented by surreptitious payments from tradesmen

adjective

Done secretly, without anyone seeing or knowing

Usage examples:

A surreptitious glance

adverb

Beneath the surface of the ground.

Usage examples:

Miners working underground

adjective

Situated beneath the surface of the ground.

Usage examples:

An underground car park

noun

An underground railway, especially the one in london.

Usage examples:

Travel chaos on the underground

adjective

Not revealed or made known publicly.

Usage examples:

The precise terms of the agreement remained undisclosed

adjective

Not announced; kept private

Usage examples:

The rembrandt painting was sold at auction for an undisclosed amount.

adjective

Undisclosed information has not been made publicly available

Usage examples:

An undisclosed amount/fee/sum the law firm settled with the family for an undisclosed amount., the …

adjective

Not revealed; secret.

Usage examples:

Some feelings can run so deep that they are better left unrevealed

adjective

Not revealed (= made known or shown)

Usage examples:

Some details are unrevealed., an unrevealed number of staff have been disciplined.

noun

A large, tall cupboard or recess in which clothes may be hung or stored.

Usage examples:

This is a single room with built-in pine units incorporating wardrobes, shelving, cupboards, a desk…