CHAMBER Definition & Meaning

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chamber

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noun

a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom:
She retired to her chamber.
a room in a palace or official residence.
the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.
chambers, Law.
1. a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court.
2. the private office of a judge.
3. (in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.
a legislative, judicial, or other like body:
the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature.
an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.
the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.
(in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.
a compartment or enclosed space; cavity:
a chamber of the heart.
(in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.
a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.
(in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.
chamber pot.

adjective

of, relating to, or performing chamber music:
chamber players.

verb (used with object)

to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.
to provide with a chamber.

chamber

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noun

a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly
a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc
archaic.
a room in a private house, esp a bedroom
1. a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly
2. any of the houses of a legislature
an enclosed space; compartment; cavity
the smallest chamber in the caves
the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc
an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon
obsolete.
a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury
short for chamber pot
the freezing room in an abattoir
modifier of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music
a chamber concert

verb

tr to put in or provide with a chamber

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of chamber¹

1175–1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek �첹��á��

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of chamber¹

C13: from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera room, Latin: vault, from Greek kamara

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But the ban has now been lifted after the RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine carried out tests in an altitude chamber and the teacakes did not explode.

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In the past, its MPs and allies would walk out of the chamber when a vote was scheduled.

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Stuart Anderson, the chamber's Director of Public Affairs and International Relations, said Northern Ireland was in a unique position and it was a "complex piece in terms of exports".

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According to The Hill, "more than 350 million people liked the speech on TikTok live, as the senator approached 25 hours of holding the floor in the Senate chamber."

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The win helped the GOP hold on to their slim majority in the lower chamber.

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