cabincab‧in /ˈkæbɪn/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
a log cabin2a small room on a ship in which you live or sleep3an area inside a plane where the passengers sit or where the pilot works: the First Class cabin
WORD ORIGINcabin
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French cabane, from Old Provençal cabana ‘small wooden building’, from Medieval Latin capannaEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a log cabin
- Above: The elaborately decorated cabin of a narrow boat.
- Cost: $ 1, 795 and $ 1, 995 depending on cabin selection.
- Her owner's full width cabin, plus four equal guest cabins give her a unique and pleasing layout.
- I made storm shields for the big cabin windows and skylights.
- Royalties earned from the publications have purchased land upon which students have reconstructed cabins and preserved cultural artifacts.
- Some are planning getaways to private cabins.
- Suddenly, one of the young men picked up a bag and walked into the pilot's cabin!
- The piles of sawdust from all my work in back of the cabin seemed too good to waste.
WORD SETS
aerial, adjectiveaero-, prefixaerobatics, nounaerodrome, nounaeronautics, nounairborne, adjectiveaircraft, nounaircrew, nounairfare, nounairfield, nounairline, nounairliner, nounair pocket, nounairport, nounairship, nounairsick, adjectiveairspace, nounairspeed, nounairstrip, nounair terminal, nounair traffic controller, nounairway, nounairworthy, adjectivealtimeter, nounapron, nounautomatic pilot, nounautopilot, nounaviation, nounaviator, nounballast, nounballoon, nounballooning, nounbank, verbbarrage balloon, nounbiplane, nounblack box, nounblimp, nounboarding card, nounboarding pass, nounbulkhead, nounbusiness class, nounbuzz, verbcabin, nouncaptain, nouncarousel, nounceiling, nouncharter flight, nouncheck-in, nounchock, nounchopper, nounchute, nounclub class, nouncontrail, nouncontrol tower, nounco-pilot, nouncowling, nouncraft, nouncrash landing, noundeparture lounge, noundepartures board, noundirigible, noundisembark, verbdive, verbeconomy class, nouneject, verbejector seat, nounfin, nounflap, nounflier, nounflight, nounflight attendant, nounflight deck, nounflight path, nounflight recorder, nounflight simulator, nounfly, verbflyby, nounflyer, nounflying, nounflypast, nounfree fall, nounfuselage, noungate, nounglider, noungliding, noungondola, nounground, verbground control, nounground crew, nounground staff, nounhangar, nounhang-glider, nounhang-gliding, nounhelicopter, nounhelicopter pad, nounheliport, nounhijacking, nounholding pattern, nounhot-air balloon, nounhydroplane, nouninbound, adjectivein-flight, adjectiveinstrument panel, nounjet, nounjet engine, nounjet-propelled, adjectivejet propulsion, nounjoystick, nounjumbo jet, nounjump jet, nounland, verblanding gear, nounlanding strip, nounlayover, nounlift, nounlight aircraft, nounlounge, nounlow-flying, adjectivemicrolight, nounmonoplane, nounnavigation, nounno-fly zone, nounnose, nounnosedive, nounnosedive, verboverfly, verbparachute, nounparachute, verbparachutist, nounpilot, nounpilot, verbpitch, nounpitch, verbplane, nounplot, verbpod, nounpressurized, adjectiveprop, nounpropeller, nounradio beacon, nounrefuel, verbripcord, nounroll, verbroll, nounrotor, nounrudder, nounrunway, nounseaplane, nounseat belt, nounshort-haul, adjectiveski plane, nounskycap, nounsonic boom, nounspoiler, nounsteward, nounstewardess, nounstrut, nounswept-back, adjectiveswoop, verbtail, nountailspin, nountake-off, nountaxi, verbterminal, nountest pilot, nounthrust, nountouchdown, nountransit lounge, nountransport plane, nounturbojet, nounturboprop, nountwin-engined, adjectiveundercarriage, nounupgrade, verbvapour trail, nounwheel, verbwindsock, nounwind tunnel, nounwing, nounwingspan, nounwingtip, nounzeppelin, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a log cabinCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a log cabin (=the people who work inside an airplane, especially the flight attendants)· I was impressed by the polite and efficient cabin crew.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Because of this phenomenon, the little cabin on the top of Mount Whitney is both rising and falling.· I had few nights off, and Janir and I were still living in our cramped little cabin in the woods.· Phil Physioc, his brother, father and sons built a little stone summer cabin upon it by hand.· Presumably he meant the Little cabin.· Somehow we kept picking up other friends, and when we arrived home we bulged our little cabin.
· By the way, the main cabin with the double bunk is Fen's.· The bird stayed on the main cabin roof, watching us nervously.· Ingeniously designed, the main cabin contained a stove, a curtained bed and cupboards whose painted doors let down into tables.· He seemed to regard the roof of the main cabin as his own territory, and not a place for humans.· Six adults live aboard in reasonable comfort when the main cabin berth is used as a double.· This is the main cabin door which also serves as an emergency exit.· The main cabin was in darkness and silence.· Fortunately, Trondur was working on the lee side of the main cabin, so he was sheltered from the onslaught.
· Two small cabins replaced these for the remainder of the finishing works.· But some inside cabins are small.· Even now, in the small hours of the morning, the air in her small cabin was still warm and oppressive.· Since Fen's departure, Robbie had continued to use the smaller cabin.
· After the stale fug in the tiny cabin, she gulped down the clean sea air, the car window wide open.· Most of them had a few tiny cabins, each less than 200 square feet.· The tiny cabin offered no opportunity for retreat.· Janir and I were still living in the Jahnkes' tiny cabin, so we spent most, of the day outdoors.· No light and little ventilation penetrate our tiny cabin.
NOUN· On board ship he invariably tried to hoodwink other people, even a cabin boy, into paying for his sherry.· Man is so constructed that such isolation is too immense to conceive and the young cabin boy loses his rational faculties.· While making Slave Ship in 1937, he had to slap cabin boy Mickey Rooney around.· PipThe Negro cabin boy who loses his mind when abandoned temporarily in the sea.
· This goes on to the computer so that the cabin crew will know to reassure you and help you through the flight.· The airline will run 13 former Dan Air short-haul routes from Gatwick, using 450 of its existing flight and cabin crew.· One member of the cabin crew was killed.
· The police could not know whether they were looking for a skiff, a punt, or a cabin cruiser.· Patrol officer Bob Edwards says heavy wash from cabin cruisers can kill young ducklings and harm other wildlife.· Nearby, the charred remains of a cabin cruiser.· Shallow-draught cabin cruisers were moored upstream of the bridge.· It gave the cabin cruiser set a thrill to see us in action.· Read in studio Five people have been saved from drowning after their cabin cruiser capsized.· Five rescued as cabin cruiser capsizes.
· Somehow, over the running water, she finally heard the loud knocking on the cabin door.· A few words from the loudspeaker and everyone rose and rushed to the cabin doors.· In flight the aeroplane is quiet and the cabin doors seal well.· This is the main cabin door which also serves as an emergency exit.· Grabbing a robe and a towel, she was heading for the shower when some one tapped quietly at the cabin door.· Since that date some 1.5 million hotel rooms and cruise ships cabin doors have been fitted with Keycard access control systems.· She knocked on Nelson's cabin door.· Within a few minutes the atmosphere in the bay was normal, and Ace was jetting towards the shuttle's cabin door.
· Like a lot of people excited over these prospects, I have recently contracted a terrible case of cabin fever.
· A 34 gallon fuel tank was placed below the cabin floor.· The cabin floor rippled underneath me with each wave, and it was impossible to lie rigid.· I opened two bottles that I retrieved from the sticky mess on the cabin floor.· On the frontier, where he welcomed the hospitality of the poor, Woolman often slept on cabin floors.· The fire ignited seat covers, burned through the cabin floor and spread throughout the entire cabin.· Had the ripple and upward heave of the cabin floor increased?
· The reality of a painted postcard of a log cabin and box of arrowheads disappeared.· How a self-made man should always say he was born in something like a log cabin, preferably with no running water.· The path led to a log cabin with a chalet-style sloping roof in the middle of a clearing.· Sometimes I am in the log cabin, looking at it; other times I am wandering through it.· Genuine pre-fab log cabins hitched up to the mains.· They settled in Prairieville in Barry County, cleared land, and put up a log cabin and later a proper house.· He lived alone in a log cabin beside the lake, his only company a portable radio and television.· We stopped at the Association of Pioneer Women of California log cabin, and their garish statue.
· A wave caught the mast, lifting it high and then slamming it down on the cabin roof.· The bird stayed on the main cabin roof, watching us nervously.· Joe spread the soggy salvaged food on the cabin roofs to dry out as best it could.· He moved forward reluctantly but instead of entering the forecabin, lay down on the cabin roof still dressed in his oilskins.· So the entire crew sat on the main cabin roof armed with heavy needles and thread.· Clambering up on to the cabin roof, I walked forward to adjust the rope.· A small land bird had taken refuge on the cabin roof during the gale.
· Then he was on to the cabin top and releasing the main halyard.· The mainsail was still swinging back and forth, sweeping the cabin top, so it was lowered and tied down.· Their slope and angle up to the cabin top was sufficient to drive the catamaran north.· They rebounded off the woven mat of cabin tops, spraying out horizontally.· Sprawled on his back on the deck, he lay exhausted under a waterfall of waves breaking over the cabin top.· The mast and stays thrashed the cabin top.· Very small children were sometimes sat on the cabin top and tied to the chimney to keep them safe.· When sailing upwind only three people should be aft of the cabin top.
VERB· Unlike most narrowboats, Oak was built with a cabin forward of the engine in an attempt to provide more living space.· As far as they are concerned, I had thoughtfully provided them convenient lodging when I built the cabin.· Kaczynski built the cabin, about 10 by 12 feet, and all its furnishings.· Like his brother, he built a two-room cabin.· The old homestead where I built my cabin is visible over there to the north.
· He came below, ducking his head as he entered the cabin.· On entering his cabin, I saw that he had arranged a paraffin lamp somewhat precariously upon the side table.
· As she left the cabin she took one of the oilskin jackets out the hanging locker.· Now we took it for granted that seawater came swirling up around our feet whenever we left the cabin or cockpit baskets.· Save for the nuts and honey which Tom had given her she had eaten nothing since leaving the cabin of Simon the Trapper.· I knew that i had to find the right door if I wanted to leave the cabin.· As I leave the cabin clearing, I soon meet up with a troupe of over ten chickadees.
· We arrived at some logging camp; there was a lot of snow, and we were living in a log cabin.· Robert is a trapper and Helen is his wife and they live in the log cabin.· There was Libby, a middle-class city girl who lives in a log cabin in the sub-arctic woods.
· Without her even being aware of it he had somehow moved into the cabin, leaving her standing at the open door.· Ellie had told me, two weeks after renting her apartment, that soon she would move out of the cabin.· Some of the owners spent thousands to move their cabins.· To move outside the cabin meant putting on oilskins, wet outside and with wet linings.· This does not require that you move to a cabin in Montana and give up city living.
· I stay in the cabin sipping hot coffee while the Rasta slouches over to open the door.· The bird stayed on the main cabin roof, watching us nervously.· If my grandmother had only stayed in her cabin.
· She was shivering uncontrollably as she walked to her cabin.· On opening day we hunted within walking distance of the cabin.· He walked round the cabin, checking the ground for tracks.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1a small house, especially one built of wood in an area of forest or mountains: - I wanted two second-class tickets to Coimbra.
a log cabin2a small room on a ship in which you live or sleep3an area inside a plane where the passengers sit or where the pilot works: the First Class cabin