chamber
IPA: tʃˈeɪmbɝ
noun
- A room or set of rooms
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- A bedroom.
- The private office of a judge.
- The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- (UK) A single law office in a building housing several.
- (dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.
- (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
- A surname.
- (obsolete) Ellipsis of chamber pot: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers. [A container used for urination and defecation, particularly those used in early modern towns before the advent of the flush toilet.]
verb
- To enclose in a room.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- (martial arts) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
- (obsolete) To be lascivious.
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Examples of "chamber" in Sentences
- He invented the decompression chamber.
- The chamber is remote from the regions.
- Smoke is carried into the comestible chamber.
- Stemmtore lock the chamber to the underwater.
- Burners are provided in the wall of the chamber.
- A passage interconnects the port and the chamber.
- In a back room he discovers a soundproof torture chamber.
- In a back room, he discovers a soundproof torture chamber.
- The bypass is from an inlet chamber to the space beyond the thermostat.
- An antechamber and a storage chamber completed the set of interior rooms.
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