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chamber Definition

cham·ber (c̸hām′bər)

noun

    1. a room in a house, esp. a bedroom
    2. a reception room in an official residence
  2. Brit. a suite of rooms used by one person
  3. a judge's office located near the courtroom
  4. an assembly hall
  5. a legislative or judicial body or division the Chamber of Deputies
  6. a council or board a chamber of commerce
  7. an enclosed space in the body of a plant or animal
  8. any enclosed space; compartment; specif., the part of a gun that holds the charge, or any of the compartments for cartridges in the cylinder of a revolver

Etymology: ME chambre < OFrchambre, cambre < LL camera, a chamber, room (in L, a vault): see camera

transitive verb

  1. to provide a chamber or chambers for
  2. to put (a cartridge, etc.) into a chamber

adjective

of, for, or performing chamber music

chamber Related Forms

cham′·bered adjective

chamber Synonyms

chamber

n.

  1. A room

    bedroom, antechamber, office, hall; see hall 1, room 2.

  2. A small compartment

    box, cell, chest; see case 7, container.

  3. An organized group

    council, legislative house, assembly, body; see committee, government 2, legislature.

chamber Usage Examples

Object

  • cairn: These Bronze Age chambered cairns are each surrounded by a stone circle in a wooded field.
  • tomb: This would not be out of place in a much older Neolithic chambered tomb.

Converse of object

  • torture: Warwick Castle is a fine medieval castle entered through dungeons, armory and torture chamber.
  • elect: I'm sure the obvious question here is why not a fully elected second chamber?

Adjective modifier

  • anechoic: In the first, the sample is exposed to a sound field in an anechoic chamber.
  • hyperbaric: Is it acceptable, for instance, that the nearest hyperbaric chamber is 300 miles away?
  • anterior: The nucleus may remain behind the iris or it may not be possible to mobilize it at all into the anterior chamber.

Modifies a noun

  • orchestra: It was the dream of a group of West Devon music lovers to create a professional chamber orchestra.
  • ensemble: Indeed I have played my cello with chamber ensembles in a number of concerts.
  • choir: In the summer of 1998 he wrote a piece for Michael Brewer's chamber choir Laudibus.

Noun used with modifier

  • combustion: Heating System Most vans have space heaters in which the combustion chamber is sealed off from the living area.
  • burial: The picture shows the small burial chamber under a grassy mound.
  • recompression: Training may also include a dry dive to 50m in a recompression chamber.
  • magma: Instead, the seismic imaging of magma chambers in ridge areas appears to be questionable.
  • decompression: Decompression Chambers The main decompression chamber is at the hospital in Havana.
  • ringing: The tower, with its slightly cozy ringing chamber, was added by Pearson in around 1870.

Possessives

barrister: Barristers ' Chambers in the UK - F to J maintained by Delia Venables This page was last updated on June 15th.

Preposition: of

  • commerce: Local chambers of commerce or tourism bureaus may also include historic photos on their websites.
  • commercealthough: Percent of the with elevated service chamber of commercealthough that's how they.

Preposition: with

aven: Back at the bottom of the aven a large chamber with a further aven can be entered.