Cabinet
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Cabinet may refer to
  • Cabinet (room)
    Cabinet (room)
    A cabinet was one of a number of terms for a private room in the domestic architecture and that of palaces of early modern Europe, a room serving as a study or retreat, usually for a man. The cabinet would be furnished with books and works of art, and sited adjacent to his bedchamber, the...

    , a private room serving as a retreat, furnished with books and works of art, usually adjacent to a bedchamber.
  • Cabinet (furniture)
    Cabinet (furniture)
    A cabinet is usually a box-shaped piece of furniture with doors or drawers for storing miscellaneous items. Some cabinets stand alone while others are built into a wall or are attached to it like a medicine cabinet. Cabinets are typically made of wood or, now increasingly, of synthetic...

  • Cabinet (government)
    Cabinet (government)
    A Cabinet is a body of high ranking government officials, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council, or an Executive Committee.- Overview :...

    , a council of high-ranking members of government
    • Cabinet (European Commission)
      Cabinet (European Commission)
      In the European Commission, a cabinet is the personal office of a European Commissioner. The role of a cabinet is to give political guidance to its Commissioner, while technical preparation is handled by the DGs .-Composition:The Commissioner's cabinets are seen as the real concentration of power...

      , a personal office of advisors and administrators for a European Commissioner
    • One of many national governments, see list of national governments
  • Cabinet Inlet
    Cabinet Inlet
    Cabinet Inlet is an ice-filled inlet, long in a northwest–southeast direction, and some wide at its entrance between Cape Alexander and Cape Robinson, along the east coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and photographed from the air by the Ronne...

     in Antarctica
  • The Cabinet a professional wrestling faction
  • Casing for a loudspeaker
    Loudspeaker
    A loudspeaker is an electroacoustic transducer that produces sound in response to an electrical audio signal input. Non-electrical loudspeakers were developed as accessories to telephone systems, but electronic amplification by vacuum tube made loudspeakers more generally useful...

  • The cabinet variety of slotted screwdriver
    Screwdriver
    A screwdriver is a tool for driving screws and often rotating other machine elements with the mating drive system. The screwdriver is made up of a head or tip, which engages with a screw, a mechanism to apply torque by rotating the tip, and some way to position and support the screwdriver...

     blade

Commercial brands

  • Cabinet (file format)
    Cabinet (file format)
    In computing, CAB is the Microsoft Windows native compressed archive format. It supports compression and digital signing, and is used in a variety of Microsoft installation engines: Setup API, Device Installer, AdvPack and Windows Installer.Though Cabinet was originally called Diamond, its .CAB...

  • Cabinet (magazine)
  • Cabinet (album)
    Cabinet (album)
    Cabinet is the debut album of the Swedish technical death metal band Spawn of Possession.-Track listing:-Credits:* Jonas Bryssling - Guitar* Jonas Karlsson - Guitar* Niklas Dewerud - Bass* Dennis Röndum - Drums, vocals...

    , debut album of the Swedish technical death metal band Spawn of Possession

Compound terms

  • Coffee cabinet
    Coffee cabinet
    A coffee cabinet is an ice cream-based beverage found almost exclusively in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. A coffee cabinet consists of coffee ice cream combined with coffee syrup and milk...

    : local term for a milkshake in Rhode Island
  • Cabinet of curiosities
    Cabinet of curiosities
    A cabinet of curiosities was an encyclopedic collection in Renaissance Europe of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined. They were also known by various names such as Cabinet of Wonder, and in German Kunstkammer or Wunderkammer...

    , early form of private museum
  • Cabinet painting
    Cabinet painting
    A cabinet painting is a small painting, typically no larger than about two feet in either dimension, but often much smaller. The term is especially used of paintings that show full-length figures at a small scale, as opposed to say a head painted nearly life-size, and that are painted very...

    , small paintings (for a cabinet room)
  • Filing cabinet
    Filing cabinet
    A filing cabinet is a piece of office furniture usually used to store paper documents in file folders. In the most simple sense, it is an enclosure for drawers in which items are stored. The two most common forms of filing cabinets are blocky files and diagonal files...

  • Cabinet, a casing for computing equipment, see 19-inch rack
    19-inch rack
    A 19-inch rack is a standardized frame or enclosure for mounting multiple equipment modules. Each module has a front panel that is wide, including edges or ears that protrude on each side which allow the module to be fastened to the rack frame with screws.-Overview and history:Equipment designed...

  • Video game arcade cabinet, a type of furniture which houses arcade games
  • Cabinet card
    Cabinet card
    The Cabinet card was the style of photograph which was universally adopted for photographic portraiture in 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph that was generally mounted on cards measuring 4¼ by 6½ inches.-History:...

     or cabinet photograph
  • A Cabinet selection
    Cabinet selection
    Cabinet selection is a term for cigars purchased in a large, square, plain cigar box that is called a cabinet box, a slide-lid box or SLB, or simply a cabinet). It usually has a wooden slide-lid, although occasionally hinged lids are seen...

    , type of box in which cigars are sometimes sold
  • Cabinet projection, a form of graphical projection
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