Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalRP:
    • IPA: /ˈklɒ.zɪt/
  • UttalUS:
    • IPA: [ˈklɒ.zɪt]
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈklɑzɪt/
ÖversättningKontext
Substantiv
1.dolapamerikansk engelska, möbler

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (chiefly US) A piece of furniture or a cabinet in which clothes or household supplies may be stored.
  2. A small private chamber.
  3. A toilet; a water closet.
  4. (figuratively) The imagined closet in idioms such as in the closet or skeleton in the closet, a place to keep things hidden.

Adjektiv

  1. Secret.

Verb

  1. (transitive) To shut away for private discussion.
  2. (transitive) To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
  3. (transitive) To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

Exempel

  • a chair-lumbered closet, just twelve feet by nine
  • When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.
  • The 'closet' can be a scary place for a gay teenager.
  • 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.
  • The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
  • He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
  • He had been closeted with De Quadra.
  • Bedlam's closeted and handcuffed charge.
  • She closeted herself inside her office, and wouldn’t speak to anybody.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipcloseted
Imperfektcloseted
Presensparticipcloseting
Pluralclosets
Tredje person singular indicativ presensclosets

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