chamber
n.
room (particularly a bedroom); office; meeting room; legislature; compartment
v.
place in a chamber; assign a room to
Chamber
Chamber
chamber
Noun
1. a natural or artificial enclosed space
(hypernym) enclosure
(hyponym) airlock, air lock
2. an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart)
(hypernym) cavity, bodily cavity, cavum
(hyponym) ventricle, heart ventricle
3. a room where a judge transacts business
(hypernym) room
(hyponym) divan, diwan
4. a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"
(hypernym) assembly
5. a room used primarily for sleeping
(synonym) bedroom, sleeping room, bedchamber
(hypernym) room
(hyponym) boudoir
(part-holonym) dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house
Verb
1. place in a chamber
(hypernym) house, put up, domiciliate
Chamber
(v. t.)
To shut up, as in a chamber.
(v. t.)
To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.
(v. i.)
To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
(v. i.)
To be lascivious.
(n.)
That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.
(n.)
Apartments in a lodging house.
(n.)
A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
(n.)
A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.
(n.)
A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
(n.)
A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
(n.)
A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
(n.)
A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.
(n.)
A chamber pot.
(n.)
A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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