Closets - 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.

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

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…

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

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.

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.

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 …

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…