单词 | chamber |
释义 | Word Frequency chamber(ˈtʃeɪmbə) noun 1. a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly 2. a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc 3. archaic or poetic a room in a private house, esp a bedroom 4. a. a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly b. any of the houses of a legislature 5. an enclosed space; compartment; cavity the smallest chamber in the caves 6. the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc 7. an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon 8. obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury 9. short for chamberpot 10. New Zealand the freezing room in an abattoir 11. (modifier) of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music a chamber concert verb 12. (transitive) to put in or provide with a chamber Word origin C13: from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera room, Latin: vault, from Greek kamara |
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