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Cabin
A small room; an enclosed place. It is also used to address the smaller thing or place.
U.S: A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built
from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional
builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
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Shack
A shack is a type of small, often primitive shelter or dwelling. Like huts, shacks are constructed by hand using available materials; however, whereas huts are usually rural and made of natural materials (mud, rocks, sticks, etc.) shacks are generally composed of scavenged man-made materials like abandoned construction debris, repurposed consumer waste and other useful discarded objects that can be quickly acquired at little or no cost and fashioned into a small dwelling.
In areas of high population density and high poverty, shacks are often the most prevalent form of housing; it is possible that up to a billion people worldwide live in shacks. Fire is a significant hazard in tight-knit shack settlements. Settlements composed mostly or entirely of shacks are known as slums or shanty towns.
In Australian English shack can also refer to a small holiday house with limited conveniences, for instance it may not have running water or electricity.
In oilfield drilling (Canada) a shack can also be the word for a wellsite trailer. Structures that were once notorious among oilfield workers for being cramped, uncomfortable and generally unpleasant to be in are now no longer good enough for companies that are serious about employee retention.
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Cabin (noun)
A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
“Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.”
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Cabin (noun)
A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
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Cabin (noun)
A compartment on land, usually composed of logs.
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Cabin (noun)
A private room on a ship.
“the captain’s cabin:”
“Passengers shall remain in their cabins.”
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Cabin (noun)
The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
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Cabin (noun)
The passenger area of an airplane.
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Cabin (noun)
The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
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Cabin (noun)
A signal box.
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Cabin (noun)
A small room; an enclosed place.
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Cabin (noun)
A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
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Cabin (verb)
To place in a cabin.
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Cabin (verb)
To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
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Shack (noun)
A crude, roughly built hut or cabin.
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Shack (noun)
Any unpleasant, poorly constructed or poorly furnished building.
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Shack (noun)
Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
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Shack (noun)
Nuts which have fallen to the ground.
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Shack (noun)
Freedom to pasturage in order to feed upon shack.
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Shack (noun)
A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.
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Shack (verb)
To live (in or with); to shack up.
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Shack (verb)
To shed or fall, as corn or grain at harvest.
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Shack (verb)
To feed in stubble, or upon waste.
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Shack (verb)
To wander as a vagabond or tramp.
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Cabin (noun)
a private room or compartment on a ship
“she lay in her cabin on a steamer”
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Cabin (noun)
the area for passengers in an aircraft
“animals are not allowed in the cabin of the aircraft”
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Cabin (noun)
a small wooden shelter or house in a wild or remote area
“the cabin lay three miles into the reserve”
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Cabin (noun)
a cubicle or individual work space within a larger office.
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Cabin (verb)
confine within narrow bounds
“once loosed, the idea of equality is not easily cabined”
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Shack (noun)
a roughly built hut or cabin.
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Shack (verb)
move in or live with someone as a lover
“they won’t believe I’ve shacked up with someone so good-looking”