different between locker vs cabin

English

Etymology

From lock (lock +? -er) from Old English loc (“fastening, enclosure”), from Proto-Germanic *luk?. Cognate with German Loch, Dutch luik, and Dutch loket.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k?(r)

Noun

locker (plural lockers)

1. A type of storage compartment with a lock, usually used to store clothing, equipment, or books.

   The student placed her books in her locker when she arrived at school.

2. (rare) One who locks something.

   The locker of the trapped chest must be careful, so as not to spring the trap.

3. (automotive) A locking differential.
4. (historical) A customs officer who guards a warehouse.
   • 1845, Reports of cases argued and determined in the courts of Exchequer & Exchequer Chamber (volume 12)

     The actual delivery of the goods is then effected by any person bearing an order from the importer, called a merchant's order, and addressed to the warehouse-keeper, upon the presentment of which the warehouseman delivers the goods, having previously obtained the signature of the locker to it as a proof that the duties have been paid […]

Synonyms

• (storage compartment): footlocker

Derived terms

• locker room

Translations

See also

• chest
• trunk

Anagrams

• relock, rockel

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English locker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.k?r/
• Hyphenation: loc?ker
• Rhymes: -?k?r

Noun

locker m (plural lockers, diminutive lockertje n)

1. A locker (lockable storage compartment).

   Synonym: kluis

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

locker (comparative lockerer, superlative am lockersten)

1. loose
2. relaxed

Declension

Synonyms

• (relaxed): entspannt

Antonyms

• (relaxed): verkrampft

Adverb

locker

1. loosely
2. relaxedly, casually
3. (with an estimate) easily (expressing confidence in the value)

Verb

locker

1. inflection of lockern:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Further reading

• “locker” in Duden online
• “locker” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “locker”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English locker.

Noun

locker m (plural lockeres)

1. locker

English

Etymology

From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kæb?n/
• Rhymes: -æb?n

Noun

cabin (plural cabins)

1. (US) A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
   • 1994, Michael Grumley, "Life Drawing" in Violet Quill

     And that was how long we stayed in the cabin, pressed together, pulling the future out of each other, sweating and groaning and making sure each of us remembered.

2. (informal) A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
3. A private room on a ship.
4. The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
5. The passenger area of an airplane.
6. (travel, aviation) The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
7. (rail transport, informal) A signal box.
8. A small room; an enclosed place.
9. (India) A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.

Synonyms

• cell
• chamber
• hut
• pod
• shack
• shed

Antonyms

• hall
• palace
• villa

Derived terms

• cabin boy
• cabin cruiser
• log cabin
• signal cabin

Descendants

• ? French: cabine (see there for further descendants)
• ? Japanese: ???? (kyabin)
• ? Korean: ?? (kaebin)

Translations

Verb

cabin (third-person singular simple present cabins, present participle cabining, simple past and past participle cabined)

1. (transitive) To place in a cabin or other small space.
2. (by extension) To limit the scope of.
   • 2019, Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting, Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck, page 16, note 11:

     There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).

3. (intransitive, obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.

See also

• cabana

Further reading

• cabin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cabin in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• cabin at OneLook Dictionary Search