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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cupboard
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
airing cupboard
linen cupboard
the cupboard doorBritish English, the closet door AmE:
▪ Both the cupboard doors were locked.
the key to a door/house/cupboard (=the key that opens a door/house/cupboard)
▪ Has anyone seen the key to the garage door?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fitted
▪ Then he opened one of the doors of the fitted cupboards.
▪ Bedroom 10' 5 × 8' 5 Window to rear, fitted cupboard.
▪ Now, the kitchen is charming yet functional, with fitted heavy duty cupboards, red-tiled worksurfaces and a window seat.
large
▪ There was hardly room to move for large chairs and cupboards.
▪ They fill several large cupboards around the house.
▪ To his right, stood a large walk-in cupboard marked as chemical storage, its door slightly ajar.
▪ All this is stored and cared for in the six large unheated cupboards in the linen room.
small
▪ Tom unpacked the haversack and wandered round the room putting the groceries away on shelves and into small cupboards.
▪ A small hanging cupboard with one shelf costs £53 painted, £33.55 unpainted.
▪ There are two chairs and a small cupboard in the South West corner of the room.
▪ Or try installing a length of the famous Shaker pegged wall-rail for hanging small cupboards, shelves, mirrors and even chairs.
■ NOUN
airing
▪ Even a well-lagged cylinder will still give off enough heat to air clothes if your cylinder is in an airing cupboard.
▪ A discussion I overheard concerned the merits of an airing cupboard as winter quarters for fly-traps.
▪ Neither the airing cupboard nor the garden shed in winter are satisfactory.
▪ In winter, put them in the airing cupboard.
▪ Separate airing cupboard with foam dipped hot water cylinder, immersion heater and timer for boiler.
▪ Built-in airing cupboard incorporating lagged hot water tank and immersion heater.
▪ Unfortunately there was no airing cupboard.
▪ Placing the books or presses in an airing cupboard will speed up the pressing process slightly without damaging the flowers.
broom
▪ I mean, that bit in the broom cupboard - oh, you didn't see it, did you?
▪ It's the same place Boris Becker got his mistress pregnant in the broom cupboard.
▪ The only open door led to a broom cupboard.
▪ Add to that a groom in a broom cupboard with the bridesmaid and a case of mistaken identities.
▪ Get cleaning bucket and powder and disinfectant from the broom cupboard.
door
▪ Above: Made-to-measure hot water cylinder fits neatly under sink, hidden by cupboard doors.
▪ Blindly, I opened a cupboard door, but all I found were tin plates.
▪ He eased the cupboard doors closed to get past them and nudged the bedroom door open with his toe-cap.
▪ No drawers gaped open, no cupboard doors swung free.
▪ He didn't open the cupboard door till he heard Ivan's voice calling when he came in.
▪ I slowly closed the cupboard door and then settled down in my bed.
▪ He tore open the cupboard door and peered at the tiny porthole of glass on the front of the central heating boiler.
food
▪ Also the food cupboard is on the wall which is very damp.
▪ I knew, Lee thought, as she stacked tins and packets in the food cupboard, I knew.
▪ Assignments 1 Look in your food cupboard or fridge and select three products.
▪ Alternatively, look in the food cupboard for a suitable plastic container.
▪ Clear out your food cupboard and throw away everything that will not travel well, such as leaky, crushable or carbonated goods.
fume
▪ Not only does it increase building fabric losses, but it also increases losses through fume cupboards and open windows.
▪ This addition complements Labspace's existing business in the manufacture of lab furniture, fume cupboards and associated equipment.
▪ Caution! heat and fumes and evolved, so best carried out in fume cupboard.
▪ The extraction of expensively heated warm air from the laboratory through fume cupboards is another area of concern.
hall
▪ At the hall cupboard she stopped, taking a deep steadying breath to calm the currents suddenly eddying through her body.
▪ They were in the hall cupboard.
▪ It was years later that she confessed to cheating and hiding in the hall cupboard.
kitchen
▪ The sun-and-moon chart hangs on the kitchen cupboard, where we can consult it.
▪ So it was with my reading lessons; so it was with the newfound plenty jammed into the kitchen cupboards.
▪ Another residents discovered rats had got into a kitchen cupboard and eaten packets of food.
▪ I can find my way up in the dark, or fetch a candle from the kitchen cupboard for myself.
▪ She put everything away in the kitchen cupboards, then went out to lock the car.
▪ She dusted behind the books, dusted the books, scoured the cooker and did out the kitchen cupboards.
▪ Five minutes later and after exploration in all the kitchen cupboards, Robyn had found matches, and some old newspapers.
▪ Then the boat seemed to bump against some solid object, making the contents of the kitchen cupboards rattle.
store
▪ Using leftovers and store cupboard items, you will have made a meal that many people pay several pounds for in restaurants.
▪ Here's how to create delicious last-minute meals entirely from standbys in the store cupboard.
▪ In the store cupboard, he found a can of beef stew and dumped it in a saucepan to heat.
▪ Research revealed that people were prepared to buy raisins, but only as an ingredient for the store cupboard.
▪ She would have to go downstairs to find and fetch a new one from the store cupboard in the kitchen.
wall
▪ Sink and drainer with cupboards and drawers beneath. Wall cupboards.
▪ Can be hung under a wall cupboard or built in.
▪ Horizontal location was not too critical in the absence of wall cupboards.
▪ Single drainer stainless steel sink unit with drawer and cupboard under. Wall cupboards.
■ VERB
hide
▪ Above: Made-to-measure hot water cylinder fits neatly under sink, hidden by cupboard doors.
▪ Four others survived by hiding behind a cupboard, ducking under a bed and dangling out a window.
▪ Ginny had hidden in the big cupboard in the dining room.
▪ Lock the door and hide in the cupboard.
keep
▪ So I use the ordinary detergents that I keep in the cupboard for hand-washing and this works very well for me.
▪ All chemicals and cleansing products must be kept in locked cupboards, and access to these carefully controlled.
▪ In the meantime, Jean is keeping the blanket cupboard well stocked for the winter.
▪ Frequent washing weakened the fibres, so items taken in strict rotation made it necessary to keep a well-stocked cupboard.
open
▪ She stepped over him, going through to the kitchen and opening the booze cupboard.
▪ Forget sophisticated economic models, just open up your cupboard.
▪ Twenty-three Aileen Farquar opened her clothes cupboard and pulled a chair up.
▪ Blindly, I opened a cupboard door, but all I found were tin plates.
▪ But after I opened the cupboard, I began to think.
▪ He didn't open the cupboard door till he heard Ivan's voice calling when he came in.
▪ I opened a cupboard and about fifty pairs of Signe's shoes fell over me.
▪ Ellis opened the cupboard and took out a small black plastic suitcase.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There's a lot of cupboard space in this kitchen.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Above it, on the wall itself, were great tea-chest-sized oak cupboards.
▪ Donorlabeled cupboards filled with shallow drawers of shells line one side of the upstairs office area.
▪ Inspectors told of finding a sickening harvest of leaves, grease and dead insects in cupboards and drawers.
▪ Older gardening books may recommend a cool cupboard indoors for plunging.
▪ Or you could line the walls with bookshelves from waist-level, with cupboards underneath to provide storage and serving space.
▪ So the Wicked Witch took the Golden Cap from her cupboard and placed it upon her head.
▪ There was, in her cupboard, a Golden Cap, with a circle of diamonds and rubies running round it.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cupboard

Cupboard \Cup"board\, v. t. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard. [R.]
--Shak.

Cupboard

Cupboard \Cup"board\ (k[u^]b"b[~e]rd), n. [Cup + board.]

  1. A board or shelf for cups and dishes. [Obs.]
    --Bacon.

  2. A small closet in a room, with shelves to receive cups, dishes, food, etc.; hence, any small closet.

    Cupboard love, interested love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. ``A cupboard love is seldom true.''
    --Poor Robin. [Colloq.]

    To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] ``My stomach cries cupboard.''
    --W. Irving.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cupboard

late 14c., "a board or table to place cups and like objects," from cup (n.) + board (n.1). As a type of closed cabinet for food, etc., from early 16c.

Wiktionary
cupboard

n. An enclosed storage space with a door, usually having shelves, used to store crockery, food, etc. vb. To collect, as into a cupboard; to hoard.

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WordNet
cupboard

n. a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space [syn: closet]

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Wikipedia
Cupboard

A cupboard is a type of storage cabinet, often made of wood, used indoors to store household objects such as food, crockery, textiles and liquor, and protect them from dust and dirt.

The term cupboard was originally used to describe an open-shelved side table for displaying plates, cups and saucers. These open cupboards typically had between one and three display tiers, and at the time, a drawer or multiple drawers fitted to them. The word cupboard gradually came to mean a closed piece of furniture.

The word cupboard is also frequently used in British English to denote what North Americans would call a closet.

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Usage examples of "cupboard".

In the little space with parquet flooring between the stairs, the window and the glazed front door there stood a tall cupboard of mahogany, with some old pewter on it, and in front of the cupboard on the floor there were two plants, an azalea and an araucaria, in large pots which stood on low stands.

And on the other side, the church side, that is, along this stone wall, were the aumbries, big cupboards where the manuscripts were kept.

I struck a light and got up, and I opened the cupboard, grabbed the bandbox and threw it out of the window, as far as I could.

Sanjak of Novi Bazar, the Muersteg Agreement, the Komitadje bands, the Vilayet of Adrianople, all those familiar outlandish names and things and places, that we have known so long as part and parcel of the Balkan Question, will have passed away into the cupboard of yesterdays, as completely as the Hansa League and the wars of the Guises.

I hid Marcoline in a large cupboard, and then putting on my dressing-gown I went to the marchioness to inform her that Selenis had fixed the next day for the hour of regeneration, and that we must be careful to finish before the hour of the moon began, as otherwise the operation would be annulled or at least greatly enfeebled.

By dinner-time she could have told you how many shelves there were in every cupboard, and knew the Bijou by heart in a way that Christopher never knew it.

There was an opened quart of a very fine whisky in the cupboard, and Bingo looked at it speculatively.

Here there was more change than the outside indicated, and Ward saw with regret that fully half of the fine scroll-and-urn overmantels and shell-carved cupboard linings were gone, whilst most of the fine wainscotting and bolection moulding was marked, hacked, and gouged, or covered up altogether with cheap wall-paper.

From the cupboard under the bunk, he drew out a cardboard box marked Boracic Lint and turned back the brown paper lying on top.

Mud pies decorated with caragana pods, the broken crockery and rusty spoons they had collected, the wooden boxes wedged between the tree trunks for cupboards.

Leaving it to drain in the colander, she went to the cupboard and took down a salad bowl.

Not until 1893, when a researcher and naturalist named Elliott Coues rediscovered their all but forgotten manuscripts mouldering in a cupboard at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and produced an annotated edition of their journals, were they at last accorded recognition as naturalists, cartographers and ethnologists.

Her thoughts drifted from Croft to the valuable book that was temporarily housed in her kitchen cupboard.

To the corresponding cupboard, on the other side of the fire, which had lost a corner by the descent of the roof, Mr Cupples now dragged his slippers, feeling in his waistcoat pocket, as he went, for the key.

The moment he was out of the room, Mr Cupples got out of bed, and crawled to the cupboard.