What's the difference between drawer and sideboard?

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.

Sideboard


Definition:

  • (n.) A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I don't know about you, but when I was growing up, the festive sideboard always featured one of those long, oval boxes packed with slightly squashed dates held together with a plastic stem.
  • (2) On a sideboard, not yet opened, is a magnum of Grand Siècle champagne, sent by her label when Goulding's summer single, Burn – throbbing, clubby, ubiquitous – went to No 1 for three weeks in July.
  • (3) There are Warhols in the loo, Bacons in the kitchen, Giacomettis on the sideboard, Toback at the centre of the conversation, but as yet no Tyson.
  • (4) A useful strategy to counteract such absent-mindedness can be to develop a fixed method for performing such tasks: always place your keys in the same spot on the sideboard, always carry out the late-night errands in the same order (lock the back door, turn off the gas, turn off lights, etc).
  • (5) It is hard to imagine Margaret Thatcher pondering how much she was allowed for table lamps or Aneurin Bevan being called to account for his 'overspend' on sideboards.
  • (6) "I even put a sideboard in the window last week," Montgomery says.
  • (7) Last year, he also claimed £389 for crockery, £200 for two new bed headboards, £849 for a table and chairs, £59 for a desk, £499 for a sideboard and £85 for a shoe rack.
  • (8) It was very nice to get an Oscar but now it just rusts and tarnishes on the sideboard near the TV.
  • (9) So get them off the sideboard and into the kitchen.
  • (10) Two tiny model wind turbines sit among a nest of picture frames on the sideboard that showcase their 15 great-grandchildren.
  • (11) "With respect to Ade, if he has come out with that, Ade has not been around for the last couple of years and the boss has put silverware on the sideboard in that time.
  • (12) In the two front rooms, up a step from the kitchen level and so only a few inches deep in water, chairs are piled on sofas, tables on sideboards.
  • (13) And – la pièce de résistance – I have a lovely sideboard, bought after a long search on eBay, on which fruit, cheese and alcohol may patiently await diners' attention.
  • (14) The Capital One Cup may not be the grandest object on anyone’s sideboard, but it is where Mourinho started in England – against Liverpool – and in that 2004-05 season it went quite well with sitting on top of the Premier League.