chamber

Plural: chambers

Noun

• a natural or artificial enclosed space
• an enclosed volume in the body
  • "the chambers of his heart were healthy"
• a room where a judge transacts business
• a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
  • "the upper chamber is the senate"
• a room used primarily for sleeping
• A room or set of rooms
• The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
• A room or set of rooms
• A bedroom.
• A room or set of rooms
• The private office of a judge.
• A room or set of rooms
• The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
• A room or set of rooms
• A single law office in a building housing several.
• A room or set of rooms
• Rooms in a lodging house.
• Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”).
• The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
• Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
• An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
• The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
• One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: chambered, chambering, chambers

• To place or enclose in a chamber; to load a cartridge.
• place in a chamber
• To enclose in a room.
• To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
• To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
• To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
• 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.
• To be lascivious.

Examples

• A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
• Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
• Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
• He needed to CHAMBER a seven-letter word to win, but his rack was uncooperative.
• She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
• The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
• The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
• The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.

Synonyms

bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room, blissom, chamber pot, harlotize, lust

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