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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.
- chambers, Law.
- 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
- archaic.a 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
- obsolete.a 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 Word Forms
- ܲd·b noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of chamber1
Word History and Origins
Origin of chamber1
Example Sentences
Despite the growing chaos outside, MPs remained in the chamber and the voting began.
Many in the tour group wore rubber boots as they stood on moist concrete in a chamber faintly lit by filtered sunlight, peering into the dark tunnel.
The company has also lit the press briefing room at Camp David, several committee rooms for both chambers of Congress and the main chamber of the U.S.
Another recording, from a nearby security camera apparently without sound, appeared to show Lauren chambering a round and raising the gun, followed by police bullets kicking up dirt near her feet a moment after.
This is creating a 3D map that shows how the hydrothermal system is connected to the volcano's magma chamber where an eruption is generated.
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