carrel
/ˈkar(ə)l
/noun
1A small cubicle with a desk for the use of a reader or student in a library.The courtroom in Arusha looks like a high-school library, with practical carpeting and schoolhouse desks divided by carrels....
- In this design 150 workstations, most with computer terminals, replaced stacks containing books and carrels within the Building 8 library designed by Edmond and Corrigan.
- An open central court provided natural lighting and quiet space with carrels for each graduate student and postdoctoral visitor.
1.1 historical A small enclosure or study in a cloister.
Origin
Late 16th century: apparently related to carol in the old sense 'ring'.
Rhymes
- uninstructed
- uninsulated
- uninsurable
- uninsured
- unintellectual
- unintelligence
- unintelligent
- unintelligently
- unintelligibility
- unintelligible
- unintelligibleness
- unintelligibly
- unintended
- unintentional
- unintentionally
- uninterested
- uninterestedly
- uninterestedness
- uninteresting
- uninterestingly
- uninterestingness
- uninterpretable
- uninterrupted
- uninterruptedly
- uninterruptedness