1 N‑UNCOUNT [oft N n] Cabaret is live entertainment consisting of dancing, singing, or comedy acts that are performed in the evening in restaurants or nightclubs. □ Helen made a successful career in cabaret.
2 N‑COUNT A cabaret is a show that is performed in a restaurant or nightclub, and that consists of dancing, singing, or comedy acts. □ Peter and I also did a cabaret at the Corn Exchange.
cab|bage /kæ b I dʒ/ (cabbages ) N‑VAR A cabbage is a round vegetable with white, green, or purple leaves that is usually eaten cooked.
cab|bie /kæ bi/ (cabbies ) also cabby N‑COUNT A cabbie is a person who drives a taxi. [INFORMAL ]
ca|ber /ke I bə r / (cabers ) N‑COUNT A caber is a long, heavy, wooden pole. It is thrown into the air as a test of strength in the traditional Scottish sport called 'tossing the caber'.
cab|in /kæ b I n/ (cabins )
1 N‑COUNT A cabin is a small room in a ship or boat. □ He showed her to a small cabin.
2 N‑COUNT A cabin is one of the areas inside a plane. □ He sat quietly in the First Class cabin, looking tired.
3 N‑COUNT A cabin is a small wooden house, especially one in an area of forests or mountains. □ …a log cabin.
ca b|in crew (cabin crews ) N‑COUNT [with sing or pl verb] The cabin crew on an aircraft are the people whose job is to look after the passengers.
ca b|in cruis|er (cabin cruisers ) N‑COUNT A cabin cruiser is a motor boat which has a cabin for people to live or sleep in.
cabi|net ◆◆◇ /kæ b I n I t/ (cabinets )
1 N‑COUNT [usu n N ] A cabinet is a cupboard used for storing things such as medicine or alcoholic drinks or for displaying decorative things in. □ He looked at the display cabinet with its gleaming sets of glasses.
2 → see also filing cabinet
3 N‑COUNT [oft N n] The Cabinet is a group of the most senior ministers in a government, who meet regularly to discuss policies. □ The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting. □ …a former Cabinet Minister. COLLOCATIONS cabinet NOUN
1
noun + cabinet : bathroom, bedside, kitchen; display, drinks, medicine, trophy
adjective + cabinet : glass, glass-fronted, wooden
3
adjective + Cabinet : shadow
verb + Cabinet : announce, appoint, form, name; reshuffle
ca bi|net mak|er (cabinet makers ) also cabinetmaker N‑COUNT A cabinet maker is a person who makes high-quality wooden furniture.
ca|ble ◆◇◇ /ke I b ə l/ (cables , cabling , cabled )
1 N‑VAR A cable is a thick wire, or a group of wires inside a rubber or plastic covering, which is used to carry electricity or electronic signals. □ …overhead power cables. □ …strings of coloured lights with weatherproof cable.
2 N‑VAR A cable is a kind of very strong, thick rope, made of wires twisted together. □ …the heavy anchor cable. □ Steel cable will be used to replace worn ropes.
3 N‑UNCOUNT [oft N n] Cable is used to refer to television systems in which the signals are sent along underground wires rather than by radio waves. □ They ran commercials on cable systems across the country. □ The channel is only available on cable.
4 N‑COUNT A cable is the same as a telegram . □ She sent a cable to her mother.
5 VERB [usu passive] If a country, a city, or someone's home is cabled , cables and other equipment are put in place so that the people there can receive cable television. □ [be V -ed] In France, 27 major cities are soon to be cabled. □ [V -ed] In the U.K., 254,000 homes are cabled.
6 → see also cabling
ca |ble car (cable cars ) N‑COUNT A cable car is a vehicle for taking people up mountains or steep hills. It is pulled by a moving cable.
ca |ble te le|vi|sion N‑UNCOUNT Cable television is a television system in which signals are sent along wires rather than by radio waves.
ca|bling /ke I bl I ŋ/
1 N‑UNCOUNT Cabling is used to refer to electrical or electronic cables, or to the process of putting them in a place. □ …modern offices equipped with computer cabling.
2 → see also cable
cache /kæ ʃ/ (caches )
1 N‑COUNT A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden. □ A huge arms cache was discovered by police. □ [+ of ] …a cache of weapons and explosives.
2 N‑COUNT A cache or cache memory is an area of computer memory that is used for temporary storage of data and can be accessed more quickly than the main memory. [COMPUTING ] □ The least accessed data in cache memory is replaced by newly accessed data.
ca|chet /kæ ʃe I , [AM ] kæʃe I / N‑SING If someone or something has a certain cachet , they have a quality which makes people admire them or approve of them. [WRITTEN , APPROVAL ] □ A Mercedes carries a certain cachet.
cack-handed /kæ k hæ nd I d/ ADJ If you describe someone as cack-handed , you mean that they handle things in an awkward or clumsy way. [BRIT , INFORMAL , DISAPPROVAL ] □ …the cack-handed way they handled the incident.
cack|le /kæ k ə l/ (cackles , cackling , cackled ) VERB If someone cackles , they laugh in a loud unpleasant way, often at something bad that happens to someone else. □ [V ] The old lady cackled, pleased to have produced so dramatic a reaction. [Also V with quote, V at n] ● N‑COUNT Cackle is also a noun. □ He let out a brief cackle.