CHAMBER
\t͡ʃˈe͡ɪmbə], \tʃˈeɪmbə], \tʃ_ˈeɪ_m_b_ə]\
Definitions of CHAMBER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a room used primarily for sleeping
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a natural or artificial enclosed space
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a room where a judge transacts business
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an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart)
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a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"
By Princeton University
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a room used primarily for sleeping
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a natural or artificial enclosed space
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a room where a judge transacts business
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an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart)
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a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
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Apartments in a lodging house.
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A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
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A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
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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.
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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.
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A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
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A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
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To be lascivious.
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To shut up, as in a chamber.
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To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
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Apartments in a lodging house.
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A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
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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.
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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.
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A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
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A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
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To be lascivious.
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To shut up, as in a chamber.
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To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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An apartment; especially, a bedroom; a private room; a political or commercial body; a cavity; that part of a gun, etc., which contains the charge.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An apartment: the place where an assembly meets: an assembly or body of men met for some purpose, as a chamber of commerce: a hall of justice: the back end of the bore of a gun.
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CHAMBERED.
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CHAMBERING, in B., lewd behavior.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A term used in speaking of the eye, in which there are two chambers, Cam'erae oc'uli :-an anterior and a posterior; (F.) Chambre anterieure et posterieure. The anterior is the space between the cornea and the anterior part of the iris: - the posterior, the space between the iris and anterior surface of the crystalline. They are filled with the aqueous humour, and communicate by the opening in the pupil.
By Robley Dunglison
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n. [Latin,] A retired room, especially an upper room, used for lodging, privacy, or study;—a compartment or hollow closed space;—a place where an assembly meets, and the assembly itself.
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An apartment in house, generally used for those appropriated to lodging; any retired room; any cavity or hollow; a court of justice; the hollow part of a gun where the charge is lodged; the cavity where the powder is lodged in a mine.
By Thomas Sheridan