What's the difference between cabin and shack?

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.

Shack


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To feed in stubble, or upon waste corn.
  • (v. t.) To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
  • (v. t.) To wander as a vagabond or a tramp.
  • (n.) The grain left after harvest or gleaning; also, nuts which have fallen to the ground.
  • (n.) Liberty of winter pasturage.
  • (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
  • (2) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
  • (3) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
  • (4) OK, so it wouldn't beat London's MeatLiquor in a fight, but it'd certainly knock seven shades out of Shake Shack and Five Guys with both hands tied behind its back.
  • (5) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
  • (6) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
  • (7) Back then, as is now the case, Germany was governed by a “grand coalition”: the two biggest parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, had shacked up.
  • (8) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
  • (9) Dozens more were injured, robbed and driven from their shacks at Bitter Creek.
  • (10) An old worker, laid off on the eve of retirement, reluctantly opens a love shack for illicit couples.
  • (11) He had a seaside shack with one bedroom containing a solid silver four-poster bed.
  • (12) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
  • (13) Momepele currently lives in a shack in the eNsimbini settlement in Chesterville, near Durban.
  • (14) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.
  • (15) We walked past field after field of strawberries, and clusters of wooden shacks.
  • (16) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
  • (17) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
  • (18) Three Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (PLCs) were used to capture and transfer the charting by phone into the hospital information system (HIS).
  • (19) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
  • (20) Their children and grandchildren still live in these shacks, held together with salvaged tin and timber.