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closet

/kloz-it/US // ˈklɒz ɪt //UK // (ˈklɒzɪt) //

壁橱,橱柜,衣橱,衣柜

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small room, enclosed recess, or cabinet for storing clothing, food, utensils, etc.
    • : a small private room, especially one used for prayer, meditation, etc.
    • : a state or condition of secrecy or carefully guarded privacy: Some conservatives remain in the closet except on election day. Gay liberation has encouraged many gay people to come out of the closet.
    • : water closet.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : private; secluded.
    • : suited for use or enjoyment in privacy: closet reflections; closet prayer.
    • : engaged in private study or speculation; speculative; unpractical: a closet thinker with no practical experience.
    • : being or functioning as such in private; secret: a closet anarchist.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to shut up in a private room for a conference, interview, etc.: The secretary of state was closeted with the senator for three hours in a tense session.

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Examples

  • She opened closet doors, snapped light switches, hunted for stains on the carpet.

  • The officers returned fire, fatally shooting the man in the closet who was later identified as Green.

  • So Wessel-Kroeschell, who has served in the statehouse since 2005, began her challenge to the speaker by looking inside her closet for the perfect pair of denim.

  • If he leaves for college, Gross may bring one of his Capitals jerseys, so he’s reminded of his mom each time he opens his closet in his dorm room.

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  • And Duke was a closet Nazi getting exposed by an avalanche of reporting.

  • One night in 2004, my college boyfriend called me from inside a closet in a north Toronto housing project.

  • But once Kanye came along, Kim had to literally clean out her closet.

  • When I was in the closet in my twenties, I considered suicide almost every day.

  • It should be possible to make an interesting film in a closet with the door shut.

  • I plainly heard a noise upon the cover of my closet like that of a cable, and the grating of it as it passed through the ring.

  • He implored Agnes to save him, and this she did by secreting him in a hidden closet behind the huge chimney.

  • But one chance he had, before supper was laid, of a word alone with his mother, in her own closet.

  • Every chest of drawers, and wardrobe, and closet in the house was ransacked, to find bed-quilts and blankets for the army.

  • The Spaniard's boat was lashed so that no mortal could get her clear, and the little craft was used as a sort of lumber-closet.