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cham·ber
(chām′bər)n.
1. A room in a house, especially a bedroom.
2. A room where a person of authority, rank, or importance receives visitors.
3. chambers The private office where the judge consults with parties and conducts business not required to be brought in open court.
4. chambers Chiefly British A suite of rooms, especially one used by lawyers.
5. A hall for the meetings of a legislative or other assembly.
6. A legislative or judicial body.
7. A board or council.
8. A place where municipal or state funds are received and held; a treasury.
9.
a. An enclosed space or compartment: the chamber of a pump; a compression chamber.
b. An enclosed space in the body of an organism; a cavity: the four chambers of the heart.
10.
a. A compartment in a firearm, as in the breech of a rifle or the cylinder of a revolver, that holds the cartridge in readiness for firing.
b. An enclosed space in the bore of a gun that holds the charge.
tr.v. cham·bered, cham·ber·ing, cham·bers
1. To put (a round) in the chamber of a firearm.
2. To design or manufacture (a firearm) to hold a specific type of cartridge.
3. To furnish with a chamber or chambers: tombs that were chambered.
[Middle English chaumbre, from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera, chamber, from Latin, vault, from Greek kamarā.]
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chamber
(ˈtʃeɪmbə)n
1. a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc
3. archaic or poetic a room in a private house, esp a bedroom
4. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy)
a. a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly
b. any of the houses of a legislature
5. an enclosed space; compartment; cavity: the smallest chamber in the caves.
6. (Nautical Terms) the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc
7. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon
8. (Historical Terms) obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury
9. (Furniture) short for chamberpot
10. (Agriculture) NZ the freezing room in an abattoir
11. (Classical Music) (modifier) of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music: a chamber concert.
vb
(tr) to put in or provide with a chamber
[C13: from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera room, Latin: vault, from Greek kamara]
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cham•ber
(ˈtʃeɪm bər)n.
1. a usu. private room in a house or apartment, esp. a bedroom.
2. a room in a palace or official residence.
3.
a. a legislative, judicial, or other assembly, or a branch of such an assembly: the upper and lower chambers of a legislature.
b. a room housing such an assembly.
4. chambers, a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court.
5. an enclosed space; cavity: a chamber of the heart.
6. a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun.
adj. 7. of, pertaining to, or performing chamber music: chamber players.
v.t. 8. to put or enclose in or as if in a chamber.
9. to provide with a chamber.
[1175–1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek kamára]
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chamber
Past participle: chambered
Gerund: chambering
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| Noun | 1. | chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space air-raid shelter, bomb shelter, bombproof - a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids camera obscura - a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface core - the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place piston chamber, cylinder - a chamber within which piston moves enclosure - a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose firing chamber, gun chamber - chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge furnace - an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. hyperbaric chamber - a large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere; used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning particle detector - a chamber in which particles can be made visible cavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonator - a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves steam chest - the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder fireroom, stokehold, stokehole - (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired packing box, stuffing box - a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal tokamak - a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle vacuum chamber - a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed |
| 2. | chamber - an enclosed volume in the body; "the chambers of his heart were healthy" heart ventricle, ventricle - a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries atrium - any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart) | |
| 3. | chamber - a room where a judge transacts business room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" | |
| 4. | chamber - a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate" assembly - a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose | |
| 5. |  chamber - a room used primarily for sleeping bed - a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep; "he sat on the edge of the bed"; "the room had only a bed and chair" boudoir - a lady's bedroom or private sitting room child's room - a bedroom for a child dwelling, dwelling house, habitation, home, abode, domicile - housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" guestroom - a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests hotel room - a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel master bedroom - the principal bedroom in a house; usually occupied by the head of the household motel room - a sleeping room in a motel room - an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" | |
| Verb | 1. | chamber - place in a chamber domiciliate, house, put up - provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town" |
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chamber
noun
2. council, assembly, legislature, legislative body the main political chamber of the Slovenian parliament
4. compartment, hollow, cavity The incinerator works by focusing the sun's rays onto a cylindrical glass chamber.
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Translations
أحَدُ مَجْلِسَي البَرْلَمانحُجْرَةُ الخَرْطوشَة في سِلاحٍ ناريغُرْفَهمَجْلِس
komoramístnostsněmovnazásobník
kammersal
ĉambro
kamarikammiolipasmakuuhuone
hálószobakamarakamra
herbergiòingdeildòingsalurskothólf
cameracubiculum
kambarinėkamerinė muzikalizdasrūmaisalė
aptvereistabazāle
miestnosťsnemovňa
chamber
[ˈtʃeɪmbəʳ]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
chamber
[ˈtʃeɪmbər]Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
chamber
n
(old: = room) → Gemach nt (old), → Raum m; (= bedroom) → Schlafgemach nt (old); chamber of horrors → Horrorkabinett nt
(Anat) → (Herz)kammer f
(of revolver) → Kammer f
chamber
:chambermaid
n → Zimmermädchen nt, → Kammerzofe f (old)
chamber music
n → Kammermusik f
chamber orchestra
n → Kammerorchester nt
chamber pot
n → Nachttopf m
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
chamber
[ˈtʃeɪmbəʳ] n (of parliament) → camera; (old) (room) → stanza chambers npl (of judge, lawyer) → studioCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
chamber
(ˈtʃeimbə) noun1. a room.
2. the place where an assembly (eg Parliament) meets. There were few members left in the chamber.
3. such an assembly. the Upper and Lower Chambers.
4. an enclosed space or cavity eg the part of a gun which holds the bullets. Many pistols have chambers for six bullets.
ˈchambermaid noun a female servant or hotel worker in charge of bedrooms.
chamber music music for a small group of players, suitable for a room rather than a large hall.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
cham·ber
n. cámara, cavidad;
anterior ___ → ___ anterior, situada entre la córnea y el iris;
aqueous ___ → ___ acuosa;
___ -s of the eye → ___ -s oculares;
___ -s of the heart → cavidades del corazón: aurículas y ventrículos del corazón;
hyperbaric ___ → ___ hiperbárica.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
chamber
n cámara; decompression — cámara de descompresión; hyperbaric — cámara hiperbárica; valved holding — (for metered-dose inhaler) cámara espaciadora con válvulaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.