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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. [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
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I chamber | you chamber | he/she/it chambers | we chamber | you chamber | they chamber |
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I chambered | you chambered | he/she/it chambered | we chambered | you chambered | they chambered |
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I am chambering | you are chambering | he/she/it is chambering | we are chambering | you are chambering | they are chambering |
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I have chambered | you have chambered | he/she/it has chambered | we have chambered | you have chambered | they have chambered |
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I was chambering | you were chambering | he/she/it was chambering | we were chambering | you were chambering | they were chambering |
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I had chambered | you had chambered | he/she/it had chambered | we had chambered | you had chambered | they had chambered |
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I will chamber | you will chamber | he/she/it will chamber | we will chamber | you will chamber | they will chamber |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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I would chamber | you would chamber | he/she/it would chamber | we would chamber | you would chamber | they would chamber |
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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 | ThesaurusNoun | 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" |
chambernoun1. 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.Translationschamber (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chamber
blue chamberA room that all but the owner are forbidden entry into. The term takes its name from the French fable of "Blue Beard," who stores the bodies of his murdered former wives in a locked chamber in his castle. My wife has something of a blue chamber in the house; it's always locked, and she'll never tell me what's inside.See also: blue, chamberchamber of commerceA humorous name for the bathroom. I'll be right back, I just have to stop in the chamber of commerce before the movie starts.See also: chamber, ofchamber of commerce n. toilet; restroom. Q: Where’s Bob? A: Oh, Bob’s in the chamber of commerce. See also: chamber, ofstar chamberAn unfair, secret judicial proceeding. This term comes from a criminal court developed in England in the 1400s in which the King’s Council acted as judges in certain procedures. They met in the Star Chamber of the royal palace at Westminster, believed to have been named for the gilded stars decorating its ceiling, and were notorious for their harsh decisions and punishments. This court was abolished in 1621, but its name later was transferred to similar proceedings. In the late l990s, when Kenneth Starr was serving as independent counsel in the investigation of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, some pundits played on the term, alluding to “Mr. Starr’s chamber.” See also: chamber, starChamber
chamber1. a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc. 2. a. a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly b. any of the houses of a legislature 3. the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc. 4. Obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc., was stored; treasury ChamberA room used for private living, conversation, consultation or deliberation, in contrast to more public and formal activities.Chamber (or breast), in mining, a relatively short mine working with a large cross section. The dimensions and the characteristics of location, construction, and operation of chambers are determined by their purpose. The term “chamber” includes workings used for the place-ment of equipment and special shaft or mine services (an under-ground electric power substation, pumphouse, catch basin, electric locomotive depot, control room, medical station, orwaiting room), excavations for the mining of minerals by theunderground method, and special-purpose underground structures (underground engine rooms of hydroelectric power plants; subway concourses).
Chamber (1) The name of representative bodies or constituent parts thereof. For example, in the USSR the Supreme Soviet of the USSR consists of two equal chambers, the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities. (2) The name of certain state or public organizations and establishments—for example, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Book Chamber. chamber[′chām·bər] (civil engineering) The space in a canal lock between the upper and lower gates. (graphic arts) A sleeve or channel of a transparent film jacket. (mining engineering) The working place of a miner. A body of ore with definite boundaries apparently filling a preexisting cavern. (ordnance) The part of the gun in which the charge is placed: in a revolver, the hole in the cylinder; in a cannon, the space between the obturator or breechblock and the forcing cone. chamber1. A room used for private living, conversation, consultation, or deliberation, in contrast to more public and formal activities. Also see bedroom, boudoir, cabinet, closet, den, parlor, solar, study. 2. A room for such use which has acquired public importance, e.g., the senate chamber, an audience chamber. 3. (Brit., pl.) A suite of rooms for private dwelling. 4. (pl.) A suite of rooms for deliberation and consultation (juristic). 5. A space equipped or designed for a special function, mechanical or technological, e.g., a torture chamber, a combustion chamber. See Chamberchamber
chamber [chām´ber] an enclosed space.Chambers of the eye. From Dorland's, 2000.anterior chamber the part of the aqueous humor-containing space of the eyeball between the cornea and iris.counting chamber the part of a hemacytometer consisting of a microscopic slide with a depression whose base is marked in grids, and into which a measured volume of a sample of blood or bacterial culture is placed and covered with a cover glass. The number of cells and formed blood elements in the squares is counted under a microscope and used as a representative sample for calculating the unit volume.drip chamber the expanded portion of intravenous tubing into which fluid falls, where the rate of flow can be monitored if necessary. See also intravenous infusion.hyperbaric chamber an enclosed space in which gas (oxygen) can be raised to greater than atmospheric pressure; see also hyperbaric oxygenation.ionization chamber an enclosure containing two or more electrodes between which an electric current may be passed when the enclosed gas is ionized by radiation; used for determining the intensity of x-rays and other rays.posterior chamber that part of the aqueous humor–containing space of the eyeball between the iris and the lens.vitreous chamber the vitreous humor–containing space in the eyeball, bounded anteriorly by the lens and ciliary body and posteriorly by the posterior wall of the eyeball.cham·ber (chām'ber), [TA] A compartment or enclosed space. See also: camera. [L. camera] chamber (chām′bər)n.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.cham·ber (chām'bĕr) [TA] 1. A compartment or enclosed space. 2. Divisions of a hemocytometer. See also: camera[L. camera]chamber In anatomy, a small cavity. anterior chamber (AC) Space within the eye filled with aqueous humour and bounded anteriorly by the cornea and posteriorly by the iris and the part of the anterior surface of the lens which appears through the pupil. Its average axial length is 3.2 mm. See angle of the anterior chamber; aqueous flare; gonioscope; Shaffer and Schwartz van Herick method; Smith's method; optics of the eye; shadow test. chamber's of the eye The anterior, posterior and vitreous chambers of the eye. posterior chamber Space within the eye filled with aqueous humour and bounded by the posterior surface of the iris, the ciliary processes, the zonule and the anterior surface of the lens. vitreous chamber Space within the eye filled with vitreous humour and bounded by the retina, ciliary body, canal of Petit and the postlenticular space of Berger.Chamber
CHAMBER. A room in a house. 2. It was formerly hold that no freehold estate could be had in a chamber, but it was afterwards ruled otherwise. When a chamber belongs to one person, and the rest of the house with the land is owned by another the two estates are considered as two separate but adjoining dwelling house's. Co. Litt. 48, b; Bro. Ab. Demand, 20; 4 Mass. 575; 6 N. H. Rep. 555; 9 Pick. R. 297; vide 3 Leon. 210; 3 Watts. R. 243. 3. By chamber is also understood the place where an assembly is held; and, by the use of a figure, the assembly itself is called a chamber. See CHMBR See CHMBRchamber
Synonyms for chambernoun hallSynonymsnoun councilSynonyms- council
- assembly
- legislature
- legislative body
noun roomSynonyms- room
- bedroom
- apartment
- enclosure
- cubicle
noun compartmentSynonymsSynonyms for chambernoun a natural or artificial enclosed spaceRelated Words- air lock
- airlock
- air-raid shelter
- bomb shelter
- bombproof
- burial chamber
- sepulcher
- sepulchre
- sepulture
- cofferdam
- pneumatic caisson
- caisson
- camera obscura
- core
- piston chamber
- cylinder
- enclosure
- firing chamber
- gun chamber
- furnace
- hyperbaric chamber
- particle detector
- cavity resonator
- resonating chamber
- resonator
- steam chest
- fireroom
- stokehold
- stokehole
- packing box
- stuffing box
- tokamak
- vacuum chamber
noun an enclosed volume in the bodyRelated Words- bodily cavity
- cavum
- cavity
- heart ventricle
- ventricle
- atrium
noun a room where a judge transacts businessRelated Wordsnoun a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assemblyRelated Wordsnoun a room used primarily for sleepingSynonyms- bedchamber
- bedroom
- sleeping accommodation
- sleeping room
Related Words- bed
- boudoir
- child's room
- dorm room
- dormitory room
- dormitory
- dwelling
- dwelling house
- habitation
- home
- abode
- domicile
- guestroom
- hotel room
- master bedroom
- motel room
- room
verb place in a chamberRelated Words |