closet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim Any private space, (particularly) bowers in the open air.

   “A slepe hym toke / In hys closet.”

3. isim Any 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. isim A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves.

   “Closet for a lady to make her redy in, chamberette.”

5. isim A private room used for prayer or other devotions.

   “When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.”

6. isim A place of (usually, fanciful) contemplation and theorizing.

   “[A]broad and at home, at their Tables or in their Closets […]”

7. isim The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.
8. isim A 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.”

9. isim One used to store valuables.

   “But heere's a Parchment... I found it in his Closset, 'tis his Will.”

10. isim One used to store curiosities.

    “Mr. Tradescant and his wife told me they had been long considering upon whom to bestow their closet of curiosities when they died.”

11. isim A secret or hiding place, (particularly) the hiding place in English idioms such as in the closet and skeleton in the closet.

    “The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager.”

12. isim Clipping of closet case.
13. isim One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes.
14. isim Clipping of closet of ease, (later, UK) clipping of water closet: a room containing a toilet.
15. isim An 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.”

16. isim A sewer.
17. isim A state or condition of secrecy, privacy, or obscurity.
18. isim The state of having one's sexual orientation a secret.

    “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.)”

19. isim A compendium of knowledge, possibly from closet as a room?
20. sıfat Private.
21. sıfat Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).

    “He's a closet case.”

22. sıfat Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
23. fiil 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.”

24. fiil To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.

    “He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.”

25. fiil 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;”