cabin

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it. US
    — Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.
  2. A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people. informal
  3. A private room on a ship.
    — the captain’s cabin
  4. The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
    — Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
  5. The passenger area of an airplane.
  6. The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
  7. A signal box. informal
  8. A small room; an enclosed place.
    — So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
  9. A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional. India
    — There’s Kaul’s boss, the overweight owner of a pharmaceutical firm who spends his days wolfing down junk food in the privacy of his cabin.
动词 v.
  1. To place in a cabin or other small space. transitive
  2. To limit the scope of. broadly
    — There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).
  3. To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge. intransitive,obsolete
    — I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.

词形变化

cabins plural cabins present,singular,third-person cabining participle,present cabined participle,past cabined past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.
词源 2
From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.
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