A small space with a door you can shut — things inside are out of sight until someone opens it. That closed door does all the work: shut yourself in it and you are having a private talk; keep part of your life behind it and it is unseen by others; open it and what was private becomes public.
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料25 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
closetnoun/ˈklɒzɪt/
- 1
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies.
- A Closet full of shelves... it... should therefore be called a Cupboard rather than a Closet.
- She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.
- 2
obsoleteAny private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.
- A slepe hym toke / In hys closet.
- 3
archaicAny private or inner room, (particularly)
- VVhen come to the place vvhere vve all vvere to dine, / (A chair-lumber'd Cloſet, juſt tvvelve feet by nine) / My friend bid me vvelcome, but ſtruck me quite dumb / VVith tidings that Johnson and Burke coud not come: […]
- 4
archaicobsoleteAny private or inner room, (particularly):
- Closet for a lady to make her redy in, chamberette.
- 5
archaicAny private or inner room, (particularly):
- When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.
- 6
archaicAny private or inner room, (particularly):
- [A]broad and at home, at their Tables or in their Closets […]
- 7
archaicAny private or inner room, (particularly):
- 8
obsoleteA pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.
- Chaplayneȝ to þe chapeles chosen þe gate... / Þe lorde loutes þerto, & þe lady als, / In-to a comly closet coyntly ho entreȝ.
- Closet, chapelle.
另外 9 個記錄的用法
- 9
obsoleteA private cabinet, (particularly):
- But heere's a Parchment... I found it in his Closset, 'tis his Will.
- 10
archaicA private cabinet, (particularly):
- Mr. Tradescant and his wife told me they had been long considering upon whom to bestow their closet of curiosities when they died.
- The late House of Commons have... seiz'd Closets and Writings without Information.
- 11
A private cabinet, (particularly):
- Went the sonne of god oute of the pryuy closet of the maydens wombe.
- The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
- 12
A private cabinet, (particularly):
- 13
governmentheraldryhobbiesAn ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.
- A Closset is the halfe of the Barre, and tenne of them maie be borne in one fielde.
- 14
obsoleteA sewer.
- 15
A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- 16
A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
- 6 o'clock TV news specials concerning a famous Hollywood movie star who has been diagnosed with [AIDS]. It had to happen sooner or later. (In fact it probably has happened sooner, but the tenor of the times and the closets of the people were no doubt more secure.)
- 17
archaicA compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?
closetadj/ˈklɒzɪt/
- 1
obsoletePrivate.
- 2
Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
- He's a closet case.
- I wonder if there is another in the world that could produce, among perfectly normal people, this strangest quirk in the agenda of liquordom, the closet drinker.
- 3
Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
closetverb/ˈklɒzɪt/
- 1
To shut away for private discussion.
- The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
- 2
To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
- He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
- He had been closeted with De Quadra.
- 3
To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
- See what contempt is fallen on human kind; […] See Bedlam's closeted and handcuff'd charge / Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large;
- […] she had to look twice over her shoulder when the Gay Northeasters and the City Belles strolled down Seventh Avenue, they were so handsome. But this envy-streaked pleasure Alice closeted, and never let the girl see how she admired those ready-for-bed-in-the-street clothes.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- closet case
- closet of ease
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