chamber

cham·ber

C0231000 (chām′bər)n.1. A room in a house, especially a bedroom.2. A room where a person of authority, rank, or importance receives visitors.3. chambers The private office where the judge consults with parties and conducts business not required to be brought in open court.4. chambers Chiefly British A suite of rooms, especially one used by lawyers.5. A hall for the meetings of a legislative or other assembly.6. A legislative or judicial body.7. A board or council.8. A place where municipal or state funds are received and held; a treasury.9. a. An enclosed space or compartment: the chamber of a pump; a compression chamber.b. An enclosed space in the body of an organism; a cavity: the four chambers of the heart.10. a. A compartment in a firearm, as in the breech of a rifle or the cylinder of a revolver, that holds the cartridge in readiness for firing.b. An enclosed space in the bore of a gun that holds the charge.tr.v. cham·bered, cham·ber·ing, cham·bers 1. To put (a round) in the chamber of a firearm.2. To design or manufacture (a firearm) to hold a specific type of cartridge.3. To furnish with a chamber or chambers: tombs that were chambered.

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[Middle English chaumbre, from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera, chamber, from Latin, vault, from Greek kamarā.]

chamber

(ˈtʃeɪmbə) n1. a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc3. archaic or poetic a room in a private house, esp a bedroom4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a. a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assemblyb. any of the houses of a legislature5. an enclosed space; compartment; cavity: the smallest chamber in the caves. 6. (Nautical Terms) the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc7. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon8. (Historical Terms) obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury9. (Furniture) short for chamberpot10. (Agriculture) NZ the freezing room in an abattoir11. (Classical Music) (modifier) of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music: a chamber concert. vb (tr) to put in or provide with a chamber[C13: from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera room, Latin: vault, from Greek kamara]

cham•ber

(ˈtʃeɪm bər)

n. 1. a usu. private room in a house or apartment, esp. a bedroom. 2. a room in a palace or official residence. 3. a. a legislative, judicial, or other assembly, or a branch of such an assembly: the upper and lower chambers of a legislature. b. a room housing such an assembly. 4. chambers, a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court. 5. an enclosed space; cavity: a chamber of the heart. 6. a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun. adj. 7. of, pertaining to, or performing chamber music: chamber players. v.t. 8. to put or enclose in or as if in a chamber. 9. to provide with a chamber. [1175–1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek kamára]

chamber

Past participle: chambered
Gerund: chambering

Imperative
chamber
chamber

Present
I chamber
you chamber
he/she/it chambers
we chamber
you chamber
they chamber

Preterite
I chambered
you chambered
he/she/it chambered
we chambered
you chambered
they chambered

Present Continuous
I am chambering
you are chambering
he/she/it is chambering
we are chambering
you are chambering
they are chambering

Present Perfect
I have chambered
you have chambered
he/she/it has chambered
we have chambered
you have chambered
they have chambered

Past Continuous
I was chambering
you were chambering
he/she/it was chambering
we were chambering
you were chambering
they were chambering

Past Perfect
I had chambered
you had chambered
he/she/it had chambered
we had chambered
you had chambered
they had chambered

Future
I will chamber
you will chamber
he/she/it will chamber
we will chamber
you will chamber
they will chamber

Future Perfect
I will have chambered
you will have chambered
he/she/it will have chambered
we will have chambered
you will have chambered
they will have chambered

Future Continuous
I will be chambering
you will be chambering
he/she/it will be chambering
we will be chambering
you will be chambering
they will be chambering

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been chambering
you have been chambering
he/she/it has been chambering
we have been chambering
you have been chambering
they have been chambering

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been chambering
you will have been chambering
he/she/it will have been chambering
we will have been chambering
you will have been chambering
they will have been chambering

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been chambering
you had been chambering
he/she/it had been chambering
we had been chambering
you had been chambering
they had been chambering

Conditional
I would chamber
you would chamber
he/she/it would chamber
we would chamber
you would chamber
they would chamber

Past Conditional
I would have chambered
you would have chambered
he/she/it would have chambered
we would have chambered
you would have chambered
they would have chambered

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed spaceair lock, airlock - a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressureair-raid shelter, bomb shelter, bombproof - a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raidsburial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture - a chamber that is used as a gravecofferdam, pneumatic caisson, caisson - large watertight chamber used for construction under watercamera obscura - a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surfacecore - the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes placepiston chamber, cylinder - a chamber within which piston movesenclosure - a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purposefiring chamber, gun chamber - chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the chargefurnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.hyperbaric chamber - a large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere; used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoningparticle detector - a chamber in which particles can be made visiblecavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonator - a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic wavessteam chest - the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinderfireroom, stokehold, stokehole - (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or firedpacking box, stuffing box - a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a sealtokamak - a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottlevacuum chamber - a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed
	2.	chamber - an enclosed volume in the body; "the chambers of his heart were healthy"bodily cavity, cavum, cavity - (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the bodyheart ventricle, ventricle - a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteriesatrium - any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
	3.	chamber - a room where a judge transacts businessdiwan, divan - a Muslim council chamber or law courtroom - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"
	4.	chamber - a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"assembly - a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose
	5.	chamber - a room used primarily for sleeping bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping roombed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair"boudoir - a lady's bedroom or private sitting roomchild's room - a bedroom for a childdorm room, dormitory room, dormitory - a large sleeping room containing several bedsdwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home, abode, domicile - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless"guestroom - a bedroom that is kept for the use of guestshotel room - a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotelmaster bedroom - the principal bedroom in a house; usually occupied by the head of the householdmotel room - a sleeping room in a motelroom - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view"
Verb	1.	chamber - place in a chamberdomiciliate, house, put up - provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town"

chamber

noun1. hall, room We are going to be in the council chamber when he speaks.2. council, assembly, legislature, legislative body the main political chamber of the Slovenian parliament3. room, bedroom, apartment, enclosure, cubicle We shall dine together in my chamber.4. compartment, hollow, cavity The incinerator works by focusing the sun's rays onto a cylindrical glass chamber.

Translations

会议厅弹膛房间议院

chamber

(ˈtʃeimbə) noun1. a room. 房間 房间2. the place where an assembly (eg Parliament) meets. There were few members left in the chamber. 會議廳 会议厅3. such an assembly. the Upper and Lower Chambers. 議院 议院4. an enclosed space or cavity eg the part of a gun which holds the bullets. Many pistols have chambers for six bullets. 彈膛 弹膛ˈchambermaid noun a female servant or hotel worker in charge of bedrooms. 飯店客房女服務員 女服务员chamber music music for a small group of players, suitable for a room rather than a large hall. 室內樂 室内乐