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Look up: Cabinet

  1. Cabinet
    A box or curtained enclosure in which a physical medium is secured and from which various phenomena may manifest (e.g., lights, objects moving, instruments played). Certain stage magicians can simulate this procedure with great effect.
    Found on http://www.psychics.co.uk/define/

  2. Cabinet
    A way of running local authorities based on the Westminster model of cabinet government. Up to 10 councillors are chosen to take on the day to day running of a local authority - they are either appointed by a directly elected mayor or elected by their fellow local politicians. All but the smallest councils have a cabinet.
    Found on http://society.guardian.co.uk/glossary/p

  3. Cabinet
    A box or curtained enclosure in which a physical medium is secured and from which various phenomena may manifest (e.g., lights, objects moving, instruments played). Certain stage magicians can simulate this procedure with great effect.
    Found on http://www.psychicscience.org/paraglos.x

  4. Cabinet
    The group of senior ministers at the head of the government.
    Found on http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/polit

  5. cabinet
    [adj] - relating to or used in making cabinets 2. [adj] - relating to or being a member of a governmental cabinet 3. [n] - persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers 4. [n] - a storage compartment for clothes and v...
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  6. cabinet
    In politics, the group of ministers holding a country's highest executive positions who decide government policy. In Britain the cabinet system originated under the Stuarts in the 17th century....
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  7. Cabinet
    a group of people appointed by a Prime Minister to hold the most important posts in government (in Britain they are MPs and appointed Ministers)
    Found on http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/greatwar

  8. cabinet
    An upright, cupboardlike repository made of metal, wood or plastic for wall or floor mounting, frequently equipped with a frame, shelves and/or drawers. Used to house apparatus or equipment; 2.A protective housing for electrical or electronic equipment. Category: Automation (includes telecommunic...
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  9. Cabinet
    Cabinets are made up of the most senior people in the Welsh Assembly. They are selected by the First Minister to be responsible for areas like, Health, Education, Environment etc.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20929

  10. cabinet
    A piece of furniture incorporating both drawer and cupboard space designed for the storage or display of small objects, especially precious ones. The word 'cabinet' - to the end of the 16thC exclusively and to a lesser extent to the early 16thC - referred to a small room in which precious articles and works of art were displayed. Towards the end of …
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/visitor-contrib

  11. Cabinet
    Cab'i·net (kăb'ĭ*nĕt) noun [ French, dim. of cabine or cabane . See Cabin , noun ] 1. A hut; a cottage; a small house. [ Obsolete] « Hearken a while from thy green cabin...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/2

  12. Cabinet
    Cab'i·net adjective Suitable for a cabinet; small. « He [ Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. For. Quar. Rev. »
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/2

  13. Cabinet
    Cab'i·net intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Cabineted ; present participle & verbal noun Cabineting .] To inclose [ R.] Hewyt.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/2

  14. cabinet
    noun a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  15. cabinet
    noun persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  16. cabinet
    storage locker noun a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  17. cabinet
    noun housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  18. Cabinet
    • (n.) A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence: • (n.) A private room in which consultations are held. • (n.) Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself. • (n.) The advi...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  19. cabinet
    (from the article `book collecting`) There are at least as many types of book collectors as there are kinds of books. Traditional approaches tended to fall within three genres: the ... A collection such as these was normally known as a cabinet in 16th-century England and France, while in German-speaking Europe the equivalents Kammer ......
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/2

  20. cabinet
    in political systems, a body of advisers to a chief of state who also serve as the heads of government departments. The cabinet has become an ... [11 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/2

  21. cabinet
    in furniture design, originally a small room for displaying precious objects and later a piece of furniture composed of a network of small drawers ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/2

  22. CABINET
    A large area which holds one or more racks, often leased by companies for purposes of co-location.
    Found on http://www.glossarycentral.com/website_h

  23. cabinet
    cabinet, group of advisers to the head of the state who themselves are usually the heads of the administrative government departments. The nature of the cabinet differs widely in various countries. In Great Britain, where the cabinet system originated, it was at first a committee of the privy counci...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0

  24. cabinet
    In politics, the group of ministers holding a country's highest executive positions who decide government policy. In Britain the cabinet system originated under the Stuarts in the 17th century. Under William III it became customary for the king to select his ministers from the party with a parliamentary majority (having the most members of Parl...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  25. Cabinet
    Napoleon Bonaparte's personal entourage.
    Found on http://www.napoleonguide.com/glossary.ht



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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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