Cabin

  

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Cabin

Definition: Cabin

Cabin

Noun

1. Small room on a ship or boat where people sleep.

2. A small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area.

3. The enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried.

Verb

1. Confine to a small space, such as a cabin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cabin" was first used: 1346. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Cabin

DomainDefinition

Dream Interpretation

The cabin of a ship is rather unfortunate to be in in{sic} a dream. Some mischief is brewing for you. You will most likely be engaged in a law suit, in which you will lose from the unstability of your witness.
For log cabin, see house. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Food & Agriculture

A compartment in a ship set apart as a living and sleeping space for an officer, crew member or passenger. Source: European Union. (references)

Transportation

Enclosure for aircraft occupants, formerly in contradiction to open cockpit. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cabin

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CABIN

EnglishCampaign Against Building Industry NationalizationN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Cabin

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abode

Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.

Receptacle

Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cabin

English words defined with "cabin": Cabin boy, cabin cruiser, Cabined, Cabining, Companion hatch, Companion way, crude, cruiserdecompress, decrease, depressurise, depressurize, diminishenquiringlyfall, Fore cabingo tohide, hide out, holler, hollowinquiringlylessen, log cabinmarinapleasure boat, pleasure craft, Poop deck, pressure cabin, pressurise, pressurised, pressurize, pressurizedrepair to, resort to, roughstateroom. (references)
Specialty definitions using "cabin": AIRPLANE PILOT, COMMERCIAL, ASSEMBLER, DECK AND HULLBelly Pits or Holds, Button-holecabin pressure altimeter, closed respiratory gas system, commercial pilot, compartment marking, controlled-leakage systemdeck and hull assemblerejection capsule, explosive decompression, Extraterrestrial Environmentget-you-down suitINSTALLER, ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING, MECHANICAL, inward relief valveJOINER HELPERlamp house, Legreenegative pressure, negative pressure valveopen system, OUTFITTER, CABINPaul and Virginia, pressure drop, pressurizationseasonal/recreational-occasional use housing unit, Shakes, space suit, stay-up pressure suit, SUPERCHARGER-REPAIR SUPERVISORto depressurize, to off-load. (references)
Etymologies containing "cabin": Casa. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Cabin" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Vietnamese (cabin).

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Modern Usage: Cabin

DomainUsage

Screenplays

We have just lost cabin pressure (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

In the back of the cabin on the right side, Leo (Lethal Weapon 4; writing credit: Shane Black; Jonathan Lemkin)

It sounds like a gorilla eating a log cabin! (Mission Hill; writing credit: Aaron Ehasz; Andrew Kreisberg)

Will hiding in a cabin with stockpiled chocolate goods be any part of this plan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

We're in a cabin of one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

Lyrics

There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood (Johnny B. Goode; performing artist: Chuck Berry)

You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome (You're My Home; performing artist: Joe)

In a cabin on a hill in Butcher Holler (Coal Miner's Daughter; performing artist: Loretta Lynn)

Movie/TV Titles

Common Law Cabin (1967)

Crabbin' in the Cabin (1948)

Cabin in the Sky (1943)

Nutty Pine Cabin (1942)

The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cabin

DomainTitle

References

  • Cabin Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Cabin Industrial Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • The Haunted Cabin Mystery (The Boxcar Children Series, No 20) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Cabin

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Photo Album: Cabin

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Cabin on Knight Island. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

George Davidson observation cabin at San Luis Obispo, California Believe that Davidson is seated on left. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Old settler's cabin in Wide Bay - Shelikof Straits area. Credit: America's Coastlines.

NWS employee Sarah Roy faces an onslaught of cabin cruisers and an impending storm as she nears the end of a 25-mile trek down the Patuxent River. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"The cabin." This was the captain's quarters. The individual sitting is Zera Luther Tanner, first commanding officer of the ALBATROSS. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS" , by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate III. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Velma Cardwell works on a quilt at the Cabin Creek Quilters in Charleston, WVA. Credit: USDA.

Dallie Short a quilter with Cabin Creek Quilts in Charlestion, WVA., inspects a finished quilt. Credit: USDA.

Cabin in Yukon Flats NWR. Credit: Lisa Holzapfel.

Old log cabin. Credit: Unknown.

Boys Fishing at Sid Olmid Cabin, Moser Bay. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Cabin
 

"Cabin" by Brian Dimarucot
Commentary: "Really bored inside the plane =)."
"Old Fashion" by Kristoffer Rekstad
Commentary: "Picture captured in a cabin far up in the norwegian mountains. ."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Use in Literature: Cabin

TitleAuthorQuote

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

) He told us he met an old man there in a mountain cabin.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

The reader may remember what I related when my crew conspired against me and confined me to my cabin.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cabin

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

A summer cabin closed up all winter is probably full of molds and should be aired out and cleaned before a mold-sensitive person stays there. (references)

Business

ATR’s new generation ATR42-500 and ATR 72-500 versions are the latest addition to the family, incorporating a redesigned cabin interior and a series of upgrades. (references)

Economic History

Morocco

The engines are from Allison Rolls Royce out of Cincinnati and the cabin design is manufactured by C&D, a California firm. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cabin

"Cabin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.81% of the time. "Cabin" is used about 1,073 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.81%1,0717,015
Noun (proper)0.09%1339,140
Noun (common)0.09%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,073N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Cabin

CountryName
Japan

Cabin Co., Ltd.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Cabin

Expressions using "cabin": allowable cabin load big Cabin cabin air temperature indicator cabin altitude and differential pressure indicator cabin altitude warning cabin attendants cabin boy cabin car cabin class cabin Creek cabin crew cabin cruiser cabin floor cabin John cabin liner cabin luggage cabin pressure altitude cabin pressure controller cabin rate of climb indicator cabin rear bulkhead cabin scooter cabin sidewall cabin trunk deck cabin Fore cabin log cabin lookout cabin passenger cabin pressure cabin pressurized cabin sealed cabin single cabin. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "cabin": cabin-boy, cabin-fever, cabin-house, cabin-lights, cabin-like, cabin-style, cabin-top, cabin-trunk, cabin-trunks, cabin-window trim panels.

Ending with "cabin": log-cabin.

Containing "cabin": forward-cabin passenger seating.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cabin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cabin

4,431

colorado cabin

264

mountain cabin

3,472

log cabin plan

232

cabin rental

3,048

cabin fever

230

log cabin

2,647

maggie valley cabin

212

tennessee cabin

1,765

north carolina cabin

205

smoky mountain cabin

1,499

smoky mountain cabin rental

203

gatlinburg cabin

1,226

cabin rental maine

201

pigeon forge cabin rental

978

cabin tent

186

pigeon forge cabin

858

cabin in gatlinburg

175

cabin plan

845

log cabin democrat

166

log cabin kit

619

cabin for rent

166

yosemite cabin

568

smokey mountain cabin rental

153

gatlinburg cabin rental

470

cabin ohio

152

log cabin home

410

cabin rental north carolina

145

cabin kit

354

big bear cabin rental

143

uncle toms cabin

313

log cabin rental

143

smokey mountain cabin

299

michigan cabin

137

lake tahoe cabin

277

vacation cabin

135

tennessee cabin rental

269

lake tahoe cabin rental

133

big bear cabin

267

arkansas cabin

132
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cabin

Language Translations for "cabin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shtëpizë verimi, kasolle (bothy, cot, hut, sconce, shack, shanty, shelter), kabini, kabinë (booth, cab, capsule, car, cockpit, kiosk). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏كوخ (camp, chalet, cot, cottage, crib, hut, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), ‏قمره, ‏قمرة (roomette), ‏حجرة في السفينة, ‏حجرة في الطائرة, ‏حجرة خصوصية. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

хижа (box, hovel, hut, rest house, shanty), колиба (bothy, cot, crib, hovel, hut, kennel, shack, shanty, wickiup), каюта (berth), кабина (booth, box, cab, cage, gondola). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

cabina. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(the hold of a ship or airplane), (barn, granary, hold, storehouse), 小屋 (lodge), 客舱 (Cabins). (various references)

   

Czech

  

chatrè (hovel, hut, shack, shanty), chata (hut, loghouse, shack, summer cottage), srub (log cabin, log hut), kajuta, kabina (cab, cage, car, round house), bouda (booth, hoax, hut, hutch, stall). (various references)

   

Danish

  

kahyt, hytte (hut, shack). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hut (cottage, hut, shack), stulp (hut, shack), kajuit, cabine. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kajuto, kabano (hut, shack). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

smátta (cottage, hut, shack), kahútt, hola (cave, cavern, cavity, den, hut, shack). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

کلبه (Cabana, Cottage, Hovel, Hull, Hut, Lodge, Shack, Shanty), کابین (Cabana), اطاق کوچک . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hytti (stateroom). (various references)

   

French

  

cabine (cab), hutte, cabane (log cabin). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

klinte (hut, shack), kajút, hutte (hut, shack). (various references)

   

German

  

Kabine (booth, car, changing room, cubicle, stateroom), Kajüte (stateroom), Hütte (barn, booth, cot, cottage, hovel, hut, iron and steel works, Lodge, poop, shack, shanty, shed, stand, tabernacle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καμπίνα (berth). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

kabini. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

תא הנהג (cab), תא (box, cell, chamber, compartment, cubicle, room), ביתן (hut, kiosk, pavilion, shack, ward). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utastér, faház (chalet, timber house, wooden house), fülke (box, chamber, chase, closet, compartment, niche, subdivision, traverse). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

káeta. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

pondok (cot, cottage, hostel, hovel, hut, lodge), kabin, dangau (loom up). (various references)

   

Irish

  

cábán. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cabina (bathing hut, booth, cab, cage), capanna (booth, cabana, cot, hut, hutch, shack). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

船室 (stateroom), 小屋  (animal pen, hut, shed), 小屋 (hut, pen, shed), キャビネ判 (cabbage, cabinet size, camel, camisole, capital gain, capital letter, capital loss, capitalism, captain, CAPTAIN System, caption, capture, caramel, caravan, caraway, carburetor, career, career government employee, career woman, carrier, carry, character, Character and Pattern Telephone Access Information System, character display, character in a manga or anime, light mountain-climbing shoes), ケトン酸 (Kenya, ketonic acid). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

せんしつ (stateroom), こや (hut, pen, shed), キャビン , ケビン . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

오두막 (Cabins, hut). (various references)

   

Manx

  

shamyr lhuingey, carbyd (bier, bus, coach, hearse, stretcher, vehicle), cabbane (cab, cage in lift, deck house, flight deck, house, saloon, tabernacle), bwaane (booth, cottage, cuddy on barge, hovel, hut, kiosk, outhouse, shack, shanty, shed, shelter, stall, stand), bwaag (booth, bower, cobble, round stone; shed, small shop, tent), ard-choyrle (High Council, praesidium). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

kahytt, hytte (cottage, hut, lodge, shack). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abincay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

chata (hut, shack), kajuta, kabina. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

camarote (baignoire, box), cabana (bothy, cabana, cot, cottage, crib, hangar, hovel, hut, hutch, lodge, shack, shanty, shebang, shed), cabine (berth, booth), choupana (barrack, bothy, cot, crib, hole, hovel, hut, lodge, shack, shanty, shed). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

casã simplã, cabinå, cabinã (berth, booth, compartment, cuddy, hutch, state room), cabanå (hut, shack), bordei (booth, cottage, hovel, hut, kennel), baracã (barrack, booth, hut, penthouse, shanty, shed), închide într-un loc strâmt. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

хижина;кабина, хижина (crib, humpy, hut, shack, wickiup), каюта (stateroom), кабина (booth, cockpit), закрытая кабина, будка (barn, booth, cab, cope, shed, stand, tollbooth, tollhouse), блокпост (post, signal box, signal-box), прицепная кабина, домик (lodge). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kabina (booth, car, deck cabin). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

camarote (berth, stateroom), cabina (barn, bathing box, booth, cab, cubicle, locker, shed, sleeping compartment, stand), cabana (hut, shack), cabaña (balk, baulk, cabana, cottage, hootch, hovel, hut). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

kibanda (hut, shack). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

koja (crib, hut), kajuta, hytt (hut, shack). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เด็กรับใช้บนเรือ (cabin boy), ผู้โดยสารเรือชั้นกลาง (cabin class). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kulübe (booth, box, Cote, cottage, crib, hovel, hut, hutch, kiosk, kiosque, Lodge, shack, shanty, shed). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

kaяuta (stateroom). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кабіна літака (nacelle), барліг (couch, den, lair), будиночок (pillbox), будка (booth, box, kiosk), лігво (couch, covert, den, lair, lie), жити в тісноті, печера (antre, cave, cavern, grotto), кабіна (booth, cage, car), утримувати в тісному приміщенні, каюта (berth), котедж (cabana, cottage), тулитися (nest, nestle), халупа (barrack, bothy, hovel, shack, shebang), хатина (barrack, crib, hut, shanty), салон (salon, saloon), жити в хатині. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

cabin, túp lều. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

caban (booth), bwthyn (cottage, hut). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cabin

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

canaba, casa. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

capanna. (various references)

Spanish900-Modern

barraca. (various references)

French1500-Modern

cahute. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Cabin

Derivations

Words beginning with "cabin": cabined, cabinet, cabinetmaker, cabinetmakers, cabinetmaking, cabinetmakings, cabinetries, cabinetry, cabinets, cabinetwork, cabinetworks, cabining, cabins. (additional references)

Words containing "cabin": noncabinet, noncabinets, subcabinet, supercabinet, supercabinets. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Cabin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abin, Babin, bacin, caain, cabai, caban, cabat, cabbin, Cabbing, Cabeo, cabey, cabie, Cabiin, cabini, cabint, cabiny, cabit, Cablink, cabo, Caboc, cafine, cagion, cain, caiun, cajin, cakin, Cambien, cambion, Camijn, camin, canban, canbin, canin, Caobang, capin, Carbi, Carin, casin, catin, caubeen, cavinu, Cazin, cbi, Ccbi, Cefin, cein, Chabang, Chabi, cibie, cibum, coalbin, cobi, cobian, cubin, cubip, Culbin, kaban, Kabin, Kabun, kacin, Kubin, labin, mabin, Mcbaine, sabbin, sabji, sarbin, scabini, shabini. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Cabin"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "cabin" (pronounced ka"bun)
4-a" b u ngraben.
3-b u nbobbin, bourbon, carbon, corban, fluorocarbon, Gibbon, hemoglobin, hydrocarbon, interurban, jacobin, Leben, psilocybin, ribbon, Robin, suburban, turban, urban.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Cabin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-i-n"

-1 letter: bani, cain.

-2 letters: ain, ani, ban, bin, cab, can, nab, nib.

-3 letters: ab, ai, an, ba, bi, in, na.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-i-n"
 

+1 letter: bonaci, cabins.

 

+2 letters: albinic, baching, backing, bonacis, botanic, bracing, cabbing, cabined, cabinet, cabling, carabin, carbine, coalbin, corbina, finback, jacobin, minicab.

 

+3 letters: abducing, abidance, abscisin, ambiance, ambience, anabatic, anabolic, backings, backspin, bacterin, baculine, banausic, barbican, baryonic, batching, beaching, billycan, binnacle, bioclean, blackfin, blacking, boniface, botanica, bracings, braconid, brainiac, branchia, brisance, bronchia, cabinets, cabining, cannabic, cannabin, cannabis, cannibal, carabine, carabins, carbines, carbinol, carbonic, cinnabar, coalbins, coinable, corbinas, crabbing, finbacks, incubate, jacobins, minicabs, nonbasic, publican, rabbinic, scabbing, vibrance, vibrancy, wingback.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Images: Digital Art
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Usage Frequency
11. Names: Company Usage
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Abbreviations
17. Acronyms
18. Derivations
19. Rhymes
20. Anagrams
21. Bibliography


  

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