What's the difference between closet and drawer?

Closet


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make into a closet for a secret interview.
  • (n.) A small room or apartment for retirement; a room for privacy.
  • (n.) A small apartment, or recess in the side of a room, for household utensils, clothing, etc.
  • (v. t.) To shut up in, or as in, a closet; to conceal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The association of ankylosing spondylarthritis with the B locus and more specifically with the B 27 antigen, is the closet known for any illness.
  • (2) It's a perfect time for gender to come out of the revolution's closet.
  • (3) Early in the film, a journalist comes to interview him about his defunct literary career; he berates her for caring (intellectually, Jep is a closet puritan).
  • (4) When possible the removal of the foreign body was carried out in the quadrant closet to where the foreign body was located and through a site 4-5 mm from the limbus.
  • (5) Blair appears to have few supporters left, as a steady stream of critics old and new emerges from the political closet to point out the negative legacies of his interventionist policies.
  • (6) Women’s protests against this have featured dancing, singing, miniskirts and placards proclaiming: “My body, my money, my closet, my rules.” Despite the repressive government, which has been responsible for homophobic as well as misogynistic new laws, grassroots resistance is growing .
  • (7) His initial instinct – that the party was full of “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists” – had much to be said for it, but did nothing to stop Ukip’s march.
  • (8) One teacher, who was hiding in a closet in the math lab, heard Thorne yell, "Put the gun down!"
  • (9) Romney has hardly sought to endear himself with Europeans, holding the EU up as a failed model and implicitly accusing Obama of being a closet "European" – big government, social welfare, and "entitlement" culture.
  • (10) It was originally three bedrooms, but after we makeshifted it – changing the closets into rooms and stuff like that – we ended up with about seven "bedrooms".
  • (11) I have a closet full of my mother's letters in plastic boxes; one for each year of our correspondence.
  • (12) It is a sorry reminder that physical evidence must be closeted with care and punctiliously marked for later courtroom uses.
  • (13) "I say to those Tory MPs who share our views and our aspirations: 'Why don't you stop sulking in secret in the corridors of Westminster and come out of the closet?
  • (14) Now, following Dick Pound’s revelations about systemic doping in Russia , Pavey has found her voice, and she warns that solving athletics’ problems will require money, persistence and a willingness to rattle skeletons in even the mustiest of closets.
  • (15) With growing intensity, Zac began to paint Khan as a closet extremist.
  • (16) No one hears about the recovery of the dead bodies … it’s like the dirty, dark secret that’s kept hidden in the closet,” Norris said.
  • (17) (It is for comments like these that he is suspected by German rightwingers of being a closet socialist.
  • (18) And somebody picked it up and said I said gay actors should get back in the closet.
  • (19) Essentially, Conchita was in the closet and wasn't allowed to go out."
  • (20) I'll be walking through an airport, say, and my plane will be four hours late, and a woman cleaner will say: 'Here, take these magazines I've collected', or: 'When I'm tired, I sleep in the closet over there.

Drawer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, draws
  • (n.) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.
  • (n.) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.
  • (n.) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
  • (n.) That which is drawn
  • (n.) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.
  • (n.) An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Who hasn’t moved house and chucked a load of old stuff just because they can’t face ramming it back into the Ikea chest of drawers?
  • (2) To evaluate this injury the following methods of taking X-ray pictures are indispensable, namely, stress inversion, stress anterior drawer, and stress adduction radiography.
  • (3) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
  • (4) Rather like Arthur Atkinson, then, she surely needs her Chester Drawers.
  • (5) He hasn't nicked stuff from you, been sick in your sock drawer, sworn at your mother or made a pass at your girlfriend.
  • (6) At follow-up some laxity was detected by the anterior drawer test and Lachman test (20 degrees).
  • (7) Recently, more attention has been paid to the value of the anterior drawer test of the ankle.
  • (8) Furnished flats came with wartime utility furniture, cheap government-designed beds and wardrobes and chests of drawers that no one else wanted.
  • (9) In IMC of the hamstrings, the posterior drawer force was given at the every flexion angle.
  • (10) Surely a term that can be used to mean the 7% top drawer (minus the aristos) and at the same time the 60% or so who work in white-collar jobs and professions is no longer fit for purpose.
  • (11) It was shown that accurate diagnosis could be made by Lachman test rather than by conventional anterior drawer test in dealing with fresh injury, but with old ones, Lachman test didn't show the advantages.
  • (12) Anterior tibial displacement was objectively evaluated at both followups by means of the anterior drawer test, with 20 degrees to 30 degrees and 90 degrees of knee flexion, in a testing device.
  • (13) In addition, a drawer sign was present in the stifle of 14 animals 31 days after surgery.
  • (14) These drawers then were checked again to determine the number and type of checking errors committed by technicians and pharmacists.
  • (15) The anteromedial band is the primary check against anterior drawer.
  • (16) When it comes to laying in stores for the baby's arrival, we're no longer obliged to rely on the advice of our own parents, which tends to fall into one of two unhelpful camps: "We put you to sleep in a bottom drawer and it never did you any harm"; or "what do you mean, you haven't bought a baby hairbrush?"
  • (17) The Lachman, anterior drawer, posterior drawer, and pivot-shift tests were negative in all knees.
  • (18) For a farmer in touch with nature or a drawer sketching a tree, "there's a dignity and a purpose to life, which you don't get from working in a call centre or being on television."
  • (19) Both powerlifters and weightlifters were significantly tighter than controls on the quadriceps active drawer at 90 degrees of knee flexion.
  • (20) Eighty-four patients who underwent ACL reconstruction with fresh-frozen allogeneic tendon were reviewed and evaluated with subjective and functional rating scales, physical examinations, instrumented anterior drawer tests, isokinetic testing, and arthroscopy.