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CHAMBER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A room used primarily for sleeping
Synonyms:
bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):
room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)
Meronyms (parts of "chamber"):
bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chamber"):
boudoir (a lady's bedroom or private sitting room)
child's room (a bedroom for a child)
dorm room; dormitory; dormitory room (a large sleeping room containing several beds)
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)
Holonyms ("chamber" is a part of...):
abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A natural or artificial enclosed space
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):
enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chamber"):
vacuum chamber (a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed)
tokamak (a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle)
packing box; stuffing box (a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal)
fireroom; stokehold; stokehole ((nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired)
steam chest (the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder)
cavity resonator; resonating chamber; resonator (a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves)
particle detector (a chamber in which particles can be made visible)
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)
furnace (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)
firing chamber; gun chamber (chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge)
cylinder; piston chamber (a chamber within which piston moves)
core (the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place)
camera obscura (a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface)
caisson; cofferdam; pneumatic caisson (large watertight chamber used for construction under water)
burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)
air-raid shelter; bomb shelter; bombproof (a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids)
air lock; airlock (a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure)
Derivation:
chamber (place in a chamber)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A room where a judge transacts business
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):
room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chamber"):
divan; diwan (a Muslim council chamber or law court)
Derivation:
chamber (place in a chamber)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An enclosed volume in the body
Example:
the chambers of his heart were healthy
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):
bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chamber"):
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))
Sense 5
Meaning:
A deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
Example:
the upper chamber is the senate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):
assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Place in a chamber
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "chamber" is one way to...):
domiciliate; house; put up (provide housing for)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)
chamber (a room where a judge transacts business)
Context examples:
Yet previous studies of chemotaxis — the way bacteria move toward a higher concentration of food or away from concentrations of poisons — usually have been done in unobstructed chambers.
(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)
Several individual experiments, such as fumigating forests with elevated levels of carbon dioxide and growing plants in gas-filled chambers, have provided critical data but no definitive answer globally.
(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
They showed those lichens can also survive and even grow in Mars simulation chambers.
(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)
The mice were then placed in a chamber several hours a day for three weeks where they viewed high-contrast images—essentially changing patterns of black lines.
(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)
The X-ray examination of the blood vessels or chambers of the heart.
(Angiography, NCI Thesaurus)
The part of the eye anterior to the lens, including but not limited to the anterior chamber, cornea and related structures.
(Anterior Eye Segment, NCI Thesaurus)
Based on the same set of crystals from Borgarhraun, the researchers found that magma can rise from a chamber 20 kilometres deep to the surface in as little as four days.
(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)
That means the magma chamber of an undersea volcano is not buried as deeply.
(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)
Using a cloud condensation nuclei chamber, an instrument that can reproduce the atmospheric conditions that form clouds, they were able to demonstrate that pollen can in fact grow and act as cloud droplets.
(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
In primary open angle glaucoma, the most common type of glaucoma, fluid drains too slowly from a space in the front of the eye called the anterior chamber.
(Glaucoma-related genes revealed, NIH)
