Closet
['klɒzɪt] or ['klɑzət]
Definition
(noun.) a small private room for study or prayer.
(verb.) confine to a small space, as for intensive work.
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Definition
(n.) A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
(n.) A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.
(v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.
(v. t.) To make into a closet for a secret interview.
Typist: Meg
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Cabinet, small room.
Typist: Virginia
Definition
n. a small private room: a recess off a room: a privy: the private chamber of a sovereign an apartment for private audience or council or for private or domestic devotions.—v.t. to shut up in or take into a closet: to conceal:—pr.p. clos′eting; pa.p. clos′eted.—n. Bed′-clos′et a small recess for a bed.
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Examples
- What was there in this simple and somewhat pretty sleeping-closet to startle the most timid? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Yes, Mother, and when I go home I mean to have a corner in the big closet to put my books and the copy of that picture which I've tried to make. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- They are closet-skeletons which we keep and shun. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I found it in the little black tea-pot, on the top shelf o' the bar closet. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And she ran upstairs to the plate-closet, and presently brought down teapot, cream-ewer, and sugar-basin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Tenant of a top set--bad character--shut himself up in his bedroom closet, and took a dose of arsenic. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- In hydraulics there are rams, water closets, pumps, and turbine water wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The shops here are mere coops, mere boxes, bath-rooms, closets--any thing you please to call them--on the first floor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Clothes are laid away in drawers and hung in closets not only for protection against dust, but also against the well-known power of light to weaken color. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- About 3,500 patents have been granted for water closets and bath appliances, and about 900 patents on sewerage alone, the most of which are directed to improved conditions of sanitation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The nineteenth century has seen a revolution in _baths_ and accompanying _closets_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I wish some of your northern servants could look at her closets of dresses,--silks and muslins, and one real linen cambric, she has hanging there. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- With him she remained closeted a long time--half the morning. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He and Tiffey were closeted together for some few moments, and then Tiffey looked out at the door and beckoned me in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- When I arrived I went to Sherman's headquarters, and we were at once closeted together. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Closeted there, silent and solitary, what could she do but think? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mrs. Maylie and her son were often closeted together for a long time; and more than once Rose appeared with traces of tears upon her face. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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