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CABIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cabin" is a kind of...):
compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabin"):
pressure cabin (cabin consisting of the pressurized section of an aircraft or spacecraft)
Holonyms ("cabin" is a part of...):
aircraft (a vehicle that can fly)
ballistic capsule; space vehicle; spacecraft (a craft capable of traveling in outer space; technically, a satellite around the sun)
Derivation:
cabin (confine to a small space, such as a cabin)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cabin" is a kind of...):
compartment (a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area)
Meronyms (parts of "cabin"):
overhead ((nautical) the top surface of an enclosed space on a ship)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabin"):
stateroom (a guest cabin)
Holonyms ("cabin" is a part of...):
liner; ocean liner (a large commercial ship (especially one that carries passengers on a regular schedule))
Derivation:
cabin (confine to a small space, such as a cabin)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cabin" is a kind of...):
house (a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cabin"):
log cabin (a cabin built with logs)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Confine to a small space, such as a cabin
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cabin" is one way to...):
confine (prevent from leaving or from being removed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
cabin (the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried)
cabin (small room on a ship or boat where people sleep)
Context examples:
I remembered the life-preservers stored in the cabin, but was met at the door and swept backward by a wild rush of men and women.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I must not forget that we went on board the yacht, where they all three descended into the cabin, and were busy with some papers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The truth was, that she had run into her little cabin, pulled off her dress, blackened her face and hands, put on the fur-skin cloak, and was Cat-skin again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Water-swept and aslant, it was preferable to the noisome, rat-haunted dungeons which served as cabins.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was all heavenly, but I was glad to see the Irish coast, and found it very lovely, so green and sunny, with brown cabins here and there, ruins on some of the hills, and gentlemen's countryseats in the valleys, with deer feeding in the parks.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Then we rushed on into the captain’s cabin, but as we pushed open the door there was an explosion from within, and there he lay with his brains smeared over the chart of the Atlantic which was pinned upon the table, while the chaplain stood with a smoking pistol in his hand at his elbow.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was very glad that she had given William what she did at parting, very glad, indeed, that it had been in her power, without material inconvenience, just at that time to give him something rather considerable; that is, for her, with her limited means, for now it would all be useful in helping to fit up his cabin.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
"I couldn't go back alone into that cabin the way it is, and cook a meal."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
He had built himself a wooden outhouse—he always called it the ‘cabin’—a few hundred yards from his house, and it was here that he slept every night.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If they none of them go, well then, we hold the cabin, and God defend the right.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
