closet

[Clos·et]

To make into a closet for a secret interview.

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A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

Noun
a small private room for study or prayer

Noun
a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

Noun
a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

Noun
a toilet in England

Verb
confine to a small space, as for intensive work

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n.
A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

n.
A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.

v. t.
To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

v. t.
To make into a closet for a secret interview.


Closet

Clos"et , n. [OF. closet little inclosure, dim. of clos. See Close an inclosure.] 1. A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
A chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine.
When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.
2. A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc. Dryden. Closet sin, sin commited in privacy. Bp. Hall.

Closet

Clos"et, v. t. [imp. & p. pr. & vb. n. Closeting.] 1. To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal. [R.]
Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.
2. To make into a closet for a secret interview.
He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
He had been closeted with De Quadra.

A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.

To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

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Usage Examples

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, 'Maybe I want to be an actor'. And she said, 'Maybe not that'.

If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.

God is definitely out of the closet.

I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

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Other Usage Examples

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

I like my money right where I can see it... hanging in my closet.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

Because of what's going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don't need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.

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