What's the difference between closet and dresser?

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.

Dresser


Definition:

  • (n.) One who dresses; one who put in order or makes ready for use; one who on clothes or ornaments.
  • (n.) A kind of pick for shaping large coal.
  • (n.) An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
  • (v. t.) A table or bench on which meat and other things are dressed, or prepared for use.
  • (v. t.) A cupboard or set of shelves to receive dishes and cooking utensils.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But once installed the couple must decide how to live their daily lives: surrounded by butlers, dressers, cooks and cleaners, or more akin to the simpler life they have so far enjoyed.
  • (2) No butlers, dressers and footmen (if the Queen wants them she can pay for them herself).
  • (3) I then worked for a brief while as a shop assistant, a dresser at the BBC and the Royal Opera House, and a receptionist at a family planning clinic.
  • (4) A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted on 807 fur dyers, fur dressers (tanners), and fur service workers who were pensioned between 1952 and 1977 by the Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union of New York City.
  • (5) And when you see Portman naked and leaning in profile on a dresser, she's posed deliberately, artfully, bony elbows protecting her modesty.
  • (6) SMRs for the dressers and dyers were also low, but not as low as for the manufacturers.
  • (7) In 1996, a young Samantha Sheffield started working at Smythson as a window dresser.
  • (8) And back to work.” The BBC also confirmed The Dresser, a one-off drama directed by Sir Richard Eyre for BBC2 starring Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen, and the return of Top of the Lake for a second series; casting details were not announced but the BBC said the story will be set in Sydney, Australia.
  • (9) In fact, Hall was a very eccentric dresser, who would go nowhere without a wide-brimmed fedora (who knew?
  • (10) However, because of the relatively small number of expected and observed deaths in the cohort and especially among the heavily exposed dressers and dyers, the confidence intervals around SMR estimates were wide and excess risks cannot be ruled out.
  • (11) It feels amazing that I'm actually going to show my work this time and not just be the dresser.
  • (12) When my boyfriend and I Chuckle-Brothered a heavy dresser over the threshold just under a year ago, I was filled with a sense of hope.
  • (13) When attention was restricted to the French Canadians in the cohort, the observed deaths were close to the expected; there was a noteworthy excess of colorectal cancer (four observed, 0.8 expected) for dressers and dyers.
  • (14) A delegate would have to possess the courage of a cross-dresser in Texas to oppose anything in this atmosphere.
  • (15) He was a genuine cross-dresser, an 18th-century transvestite.
  • (16) Denise Dresser (@DeniseDresserG) Peña Nieto invita.a Trump para: August 31, 2016 Translation: Peña Nieto invited Trump because: For Higa [a Mexican construction company] to build the wall To speak about hairstyles To tell him the good things To present his thesis At press time, getting Higa to build the wall had 49% of the more than 8,000 Twitter votes.
  • (17) Callahan's paper on paternalism and involuntary psychiatric commitment of adults, with comments by Rebecca Dresser, appeared in the August 1984 issue of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Vol.
  • (18) Fortunately, at least for the Downton set-dresser, there is of course an app for that.
  • (19) Support was not found for the prediction that the sex change group would have the worst present and past adjustment followed by the homosexual cross-dressers with the poorest past adjustment.
  • (20) There was a big difference between those classes which we didn’t know before.” 2014 : Flamboyant dressers in modern-day Kinshasa.