Pronunciation Noun
chamber (plural chambers)
- A room or set of rooms, particularly:
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- 1845, Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven,
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
- Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
- As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
- 1845, Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven,
- A bedroom.
- The private office of a judge.
- The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- (UK) A single law office in a building housing several.
- (dated, usually, in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.
- ...a bachelor's life in chambers...
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- A chamberpot.
- (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
- (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
- (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
- (obsolete) Clipping of chamber pot#English|chamber pot: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.
- (chamber pot) See Thesaurus:chamber pot
- Russian: ко́мната
- Russian: ко́мната
- French: chambre, pièce
- German: Raum, Schlafzimmer, Zimmer, Kammer, (archaic) Gemach, (archaic) Schlafgemach
- Portuguese: câmara, quarto
- Russian: ко́мната
- Spanish: cámara
- Russian: ко́мната
- French: chambre
- German: (of the European Union) Plenarsaal, Kammer
- Italian: camera
- Portuguese: câmara
- Russian: пала́та
- Spanish: cámara
- Russian: патро́нник
chamber (chambers, present participle chambering; past and past participle chambered)
- To enclose in a room.
- She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- 1893, Publications of the Scottish History Society (volume 14, page 64)
- I chambered with Alexander Preston.
- 1893, Publications of the Scottish History Society (volume 14, page 64)
- To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
- To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
- In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
- Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
- (obsolete) To be lascivious.
- (to be lascivious) blissom, lust; see also Thesaurus:harlotize
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