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chamber
[cheym-ber]
noun
a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom.
She retired to her chamber.
a room in a palace or official residence.
the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.
Law.chambers,
a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court.
the private office of a judge.
(in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.
a legislative, judicial, or other like body.
the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature.
an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.
the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.
(in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.
a compartment or enclosed space; cavity.
a chamber of the heart.
(in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.
a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.
(in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.
adjective
of, relating to, or performing chamber music.
chamber players.
verb (used with object)
to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.
to provide with a chamber.
chamber
/ ˈʃɪə /
noun
a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly
a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc
archaica room in a private house, esp a bedroom
a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly
any of the houses of a legislature
an enclosed space; compartment; cavity
the smallest chamber in the caves
the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc
an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon
obsoletea place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury
short for chamber pot
the freezing room in an abattoir
(modifier) of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music
a chamber concert
verb
(tr) to put in or provide with a chamber
Other 51Թ Forms
- underchamber noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of chamber1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of chamber1
Example Sentences
“It was the worst experience I ever felt. I felt honestly like I was going to die. He literally racked a chamber in his AR-15.”
That proposal, which would involve shifting GOP voters from safely red districts into neighboring blue ones, is aimed at safeguarding Republicans’ thin majority in Congress, where they control the lower chamber, 220-212.
The chamber’s statement came as President Trump mobilized nearly 2,000 members of the National Guard to L.A. to quell protests against the federal government’s efforts aimed at deporting undocumented immigrants.
“In the paintings and drawings of this chamber of horrors, there is no telling what was in the sick brains of those who wielded the brush or the pencil,” the catalog explained.
A chamber music concert with works by Schumann and Brahms played by Korean musicians is the closing event Tuesday.
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