Cabinet vs. Pantry — What's the Difference?

An upright, cupboardlike repository with shelves, drawers, or compartments for the safekeeping or display of objects.

A pantry is a room where beverages, food, and sometimes dishes, household cleaning chemicals, linens, or provisions are stored. Food and beverage pantries serve in an ancillary capacity to the kitchen.

(Computers) The box that houses the main components of a computer, such as the central processing unit, disk drives, and expansion slots.

A small room or closet, usually off a kitchen, where food, tableware, linens, and similar items are stored.

Often Cabinet A body of persons appointed by a head of state or a prime minister to head the executive departments of the government and to act as official advisers.

A small room used for the preparation of cold foods.

(Archaic) A small or private room set aside for a specific activity.

See food pantry.

Rhode Island & Southeastern Massachusetts See milkshake.

A small room, closet, or cabinet usually located in or near the kitchen, dedicated to shelf-stable food storage and/or storing kitchenware, like a larder, but smaller.

Suitable for storage or display in a cabinet, as because of size or decorative quality.

(Hong Kong) A break room.

Of, relating to, or being a member of a governmental cabinet

An apartment or closet in which bread and other provisions are kept.

Used in the making of cabinets

A small storeroom for storing foods or wines

A storage closet either separate from, or built into, a wall.

A cupboard.

The upright assembly that houses a coin-operated arcade game, a cab.

(historical) A size of photograph, specifically one measuring 3⅞" by 5½".

A group of advisors to a government or business entity.

In parliamentary and some other systems of government, the group of ministers responsible for creating government policy and for overseeing the departments comprising the executive branch.

(Kentucky) A cabinet-level agency in the executive branch; that is, an agency headed by a member of the governor's cabinet.

(archaic) A small chamber or private room.

(often capitalized) A collection of art or ethnographic objects.

Milkshake.

(obsolete) A hut; a cottage; a small house.

An enclosure for mechanical or electrical equipment.

A hut; a cottage; a small house.

A small room, or retired apartment; a closet.

A private room in which consultations are held.

The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.

A set of drawers or a cupboard intended to contain articles of value. Hence:

Any building or room set apart for the safe keeping and exhibition of works of art, etc.; also, the collection itself.

Suitable for a cabinet; small.

To inclose

A cupboard-like repository or piece of furniture with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display

Persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers

A storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock

Housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television