Wood File Cabinet

–noun

1.	the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.

2.	the trunks or main stems of trees as suitable for architectural and other purposes; timber or lumber.

3.

firewood.

4.	the cask, barrel, or keg, as distinguished from the bottle: aged in the wood.

5.	wood block (def. 1).

6.	Music. a. a woodwind instrument. b. the section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwinds.

7.	Often, woods. (used with a singular or plural verb) a large and thick collection of growing trees; a grove or forest: They picnicked in the woods.

8.	Golf. a club with a wooden head, as a driver, brassie, spoon, or baffy for hitting long shots. Compare iron (def. 5).

–adjective

9.	made of wood; wooden.

10.	used to store, work, or carry wood: a wood chisel.

11.	dwelling or growing in woods: wood bird.

–verb (used with object)

12.	to cover or plant with trees.

13.	to supply with wood; get supplies of wood for.

–verb (used without object)

14.	to take in or get supplies of wood (often fol. by up): to wood up before the approach of winter.

—Idioms

15.	have the wood on, Australian Slang. to have an advantage over or have information that can be used against.

16.	knock on wood, (used when knocking on something wooden to assure continued good luck): The car's still in good shape, knock on wood. Also, especially British, touch wood.

17.	out of the woods, a. out of a dangerous, perplexing, or difficult situation; secure; safe. b. no longer in precarious health or critical condition; out of danger and recovering.

–noun

1.	a folder, cabinet, or other container in which papers, letters, etc., are arranged in convenient order for storage or reference.

2.	a collection of papers, records, etc., arranged in convenient order: to make a file for a new account.

3.	Computers. a collection of related data or program records stored on some input/output or auxiliary storage medium: This program's main purpose is to update the customer master file.

4.	a line of persons or things arranged one behind another (distinguished from rank ).

5.	Military. a. a person in front of or behind another in a military formation. b. one step on a promotion list.

6.	one of the vertical lines of squares on a chessboard.

7.	a list or roll.

8.	a string or wire on which papers are strung for preservation and reference.

–verb (used with object)

9.	to place in a file.

10.	to arrange (papers, records, etc.) in convenient order for storage or reference.

11.	Journalism. a. to arrange (copy) in the proper order for transmittal by wire. b. to transmit (copy), as by wire or telephone: He filed copy from Madrid all through the war.

–verb (used without object)

12.	to march in a file or line, one after another, as soldiers: The parade filed past endlessly.

13.	to make application: to file for a civil-service job.

—Idiom

14.	on file, arranged in order for convenient reference; in a file: The names are on file in the office.

–noun

1.	a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.

2.	a wall cupboard used for storage, as of kitchen utensils or toilet articles: a kitchen cabinet; a medicine cabinet.

3.	a piece of furniture containing a radio or television set, usually standing on the floor and often having a record player or a place for phonograph records.

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4.	(often initial capital letter) a council advising a president, sovereign, etc., esp. the group of ministers or executives responsible for the government of a nation.

5.	(often initial capital letter) (in the U.S.) an advisory body to the president, consisting of the heads of the 13 executive departments of the federal government.

6.	a small case with compartments for valuables or other small objects.

7.	a small chamber or booth for special use, esp. a shower stall.

8.	a private room.

9.	a room set aside for the exhibition of small works of art or objets d'art.

10.	Also called cabinet wine. a dry white wine produced in Germany from fully matured grapes without the addition of extra sugar.

11.	New England (chiefly Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts). a milk shake made with ice cream.

12.	Archaic. a small room.

13.	Obsolete. a small cabin.

–adjective

14.	pertaining to a political cabinet: a cabinet meeting.

15.	private; confidential; secret.

16.	pertaining to a private room.

17.	of suitable value, beauty, or size for a private room, small display case, etc.: a cabinet edition of Milton.

18.	of, pertaining to, or used by a cabinetmaker or in cabinetmaking.

19.

Drafting. designating a method of projection (cabinet projection) in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing (cabinet drawing) having all vertical and horizontal lines drawn to exact scale, with oblique lines reduced to about half scale so as to offset the appearance of distortion. Compare axonometric, isometric (def. 5), oblique (def. 13).