What's the difference between cabin and chalet?

Cabin


Definition:

  • (n.) A cottage or small house; a hut.
  • (n.) A small room; an inclosed place.
  • (n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers.
  • (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.
  • (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cabin altitudes ranged from sea level to 8,915 feet (2717 m).
  • (2) The fungus was demonstrated in the lesions and was isolated from the diseased parts as well as from the air, floor and walls of the breeding cabin.
  • (3) Long breathing hoses should not be used in smaller aircraft since small cabin volume will result in rapid decompression rates and high mask pressure.
  • (4) I want to pay tribute to our cabin crew members who have been determined to achieve a negotiated settlement.
  • (5) He had been trapped in his cabin by a second explosion as he went to retrieve his precious cameras.
  • (6) Sasaki, like other machinery operators, spends his shift inside crane and digger cabins, the only way they can clear dangerously radioactive debris.
  • (7) Aircraft cabin conditions are discussed, including relative humidity, atmospheric oxygen, and ozone concentration.
  • (8) Visit Narvik (as above) is great for finding budget accommodation ranging from eco-hotels, such as turf-roofed Fjellkysten eco-lodge (doubles from £94 room only, ), to traditional Sami camps such as Pippira Siida (cabin for two from £33, ).
  • (9) Esther Boulandier, guide, Bilbao Facebook Twitter Pinterest A mountain cabin in the Picos de Europa national park.
  • (10) These observations support the initiation of programs to train cabin personnel in the skills of basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation and in the use of automatic external defibrillators.
  • (11) He added that recent pay and productivity agreements between Iberia and its pilot and cabin crew unions were key to reducing the airline's costs further.
  • (12) Earlier in April, Air France, which recently resumed flights to Tehran after an eight-year hiatus, said its female cabin crew can refuse flights to Iran after protests by a number of the crew members over the compulsory hijab.
  • (13) A review of previous research and hardware development, performed mostly in parabolic flight both in the Soviet Union and the U.S., reveals an interest in surgical chambers to prevent cabin atmosphere contamination.
  • (14) BA has offered to reinstate staff travel perks but without the seniority clauses that give long-serving cabin crew priority over junior colleagues.
  • (15) A German journalist, who witnessed the attack during Bastille Day celebrations in the French coastal city, said he saw a motorcyclist dismount and try to enter the cabin but fall and end up under the wheels.
  • (16) The cabin crew were charming, but I ended up about as far away from the appropriate toilet as I could be.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Route planners have been canny in their research, judging by the reaction from Mike Herrieven who has run Mere village stores in a wooden cabin at Hoo Green for 20 years, but doesn't expect to last another five.
  • (18) A strike ballot of more than 12,000 cabin crew ends on 22 February and a walkout could begin in March.
  • (19) To the dark immensity of material Nature's indifference we can oppose only the brief light, like a lamp in a cabin, of our consciousness; the invigorating benison of Walden is to make us feel that the contest is equal, and fair.
  • (20) Talks between the Unite trade union and British Airways have produced new proposals that could end a long-running industrial dispute involving the airline's cabin crew workforce.

Chalet


Definition:

  • (n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
  • (n.) A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
  • (2) "We tried to get in contact with her at the chalet and we couldn't – she'd left," said her mother Helen, who was at the Rosa Khutor slopes with her father Pete.
  • (3) As a child growing up in the 1960s she loved comics and books including Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School stories , but a career as a writer was not on her radar because she never came across black writers or characters.
  • (4) It also has catered chalets in Italy, such as Chalet Heidi in Arabba , in the Dolomites, catered for the week 3 February for £629pp.
  • (5) But of us four girls since, Pippa died of cancer, Gilly was killed in a plane crash (on the way to my chalet in Switzerland) and Penny – the brightest of us all, the head girl at Rodean – has Alzheimer’s.
  • (6) "I'm not an educated person with any proper schooling," Fury said last year outside the Swiss-style chalet that had been his home in Essen for eight long weeks.
  • (7) He spent two months in a Swiss jail, followed by several months under house arrest at his chalet in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad, before authorities said they would not be extraditing him.
  • (8) Brigitte's in summer, and the mazot's interior The one I stayed in last March, Brigitte's Mazot, is very cute and just for two; it's down an icy path through the garden behind the main Chalet Les Mazots, not a mazot itself, but a gorgeous 1930s chalet with eight bedrooms (sleeping 14), individually rented by other guests.
  • (9) Here are some examples: in Chamonix , Chamois Blanc 7 is a cute little apartment, with modern decor and lots of pine panelling, sleeping four from €600 in February and March, or €500 in April; while in the Tarentaise, 20 minutes from lovely Sainte-Foy , which has nice runs, great hiking into the backcountry and is within a short drive of La Rosière and Les Arcs, La Tillette is a super-stylish modern chalet sleeping eight, with massive windows and white interiors, L'Occitane toiletries and off-piste skiing to the door.
  • (10) The chalet is just off the main street and has a sauna.
  • (11) Accommodation ranges from tents in a covered long house, small bamboo huts, a raised platform named “the honeymoon suite” and the relative luxury of riverside chalets.
  • (12) • £2,499pp (£625pp) for a family of four (two adults, two children aged two to 10), staying at Chalet Verwall on 23 December.
  • (13) He was said to have used his time under Swiss house arrest at his luxurious Gstaad mountain chalet to work intensely on the film.
  • (14) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
  • (15) We spent several nights at a friendly little chalet-style hotel called Rilindja, hiking around the local villages and eating fresh river trout.
  • (16) Hoenle's cabin, Twentysix , is set in a small crescent of huts designed by one Vic Hallam, who launched the buildings as Anderby Chalets in 1959.
  • (17) For something more affordable, a double chalet at Mango Drift costs from £20 (+265 999 746122, mangodrift.com ) 13 Traverse the 'island in the sky': Mount Mulanje, Malawi Mount Mulanje, Malawi.
  • (18) Low Cost Holidays has seven nights for £485pp self-catering, including flights with easyJet, at the Yagoda & Malina Chalets , among pine trees.
  • (19) The simple chalet where I am staying the night was home at various times to house guests including Elizabeth David and the writer Sybille Bedford, and to James Baldwin (Richard's "petit-ami"), his soulmate and sometime romance; a perfect little trio of portraits of the author of The Fire Next Time , asleep and contemplating the world over coffee, are grouped on one wall.
  • (20) Chalet La Falaise in Les Carroz , which has 144 pistes in Le Grand Massif , sleeps 10 in four bedrooms, and costs £1,600 for the whole self-catering property for the weeks starting 2 and 9 March.