What's the difference between cabin and steerage?

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.

Steerage


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
  • (n.) The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.
  • (n.) The hinder part of a vessel; the stern.
  • (n.) Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.
  • (n.) Direction; regulation; management; guidance.
  • (n.) That by which a course is directed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet many of his images dwell on less glamorous urban realities: immigrants arriving in steerage at the docks and the poor huddled masses dwarfed by buildings.
  • (2) A closed culture, overendowed with powers and as-seen-on-TV weaponry, frequently insolent and seemingly answerable to no one, the uncomfortable role of the police is increasingly to batten down the hatches in steerage while the privileged centile, Westminster in their pockets, pull away in the lifeboats.
  • (3) And not the kind of commercial organisation which, like Microsoft once was, sends all its executives steerage wherever they travel.