An upright, cupboardlike repository with shelves, drawers, or compartments for the safekeeping or display of objects.
Computer Science The box that houses the main components of a computer, such as the central processing unit, disk drives, and expansion slots.
often Cabinet 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.
Archaic A small or private room set aside for a specific activity.
Rhode Island & Southeastern Massachusetts See milk shake. See Regional Note at milk shake.
adj.
Suitable for storage or display in a cabinet, as because of size or decorative quality.
Of, relating to, or being a member of a governmental cabinet: cabinet matters; a cabinet minister.
Used in the making of cabinets: teak and other heavy cabinet wood.
[French, partly from diminutive of Old North French cabine, gambling-room (perhaps alteration of Old French cabane, small house; see cabin) and partly from Italian gabinetto, closet, chest of drawers; akin to Old North French cabine. N., sense 5, possibly from the square wooden container in which the mixer was encased.] cab'i·net·ful n.
(kāb'ə-nĭt) 