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单词 chambered
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chamberedadj.

Brit. /ˈtʃeɪmbəd/, U.S. /ˈtʃeɪmbərd/
Forms: see chamber n. and -ed suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: chamber n., -ed suffix2; chamber v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: Partly < chamber n. + -ed suffix2, and partly (in later use) < chamber v. + -ed suffix1. In sense 2 apparently after post-classical Latin cameratus arched, vaulted (from 12th cent. in British sources); compare cambered adj. at camber v. Derivatives, and see camber v. and discussion at that entry.
1.
a. Having a chamber or chambers (in various senses). Originally and frequently with modifying word specifying the number of chambers, as single-chambered, three-chambered, etc.air-, four-, Gomer-, many-, two-chambered, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > having compartments or chambers
chambereda1382
cellulara1728
multilocular1754
cellated1832
pigeonholed1848
compartmented1851
multi-camerate1878
multiloculate1890
multiloculated1899
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > [adjective] > others
stocked1497
breeched1575
chambered1611
tower-proof1673
triggerless18..
hair-triggered1806
vizyless1828
high-velocity1854
sighted1859
calibred1887
recoilless1888
sham-damn1895
silenced1909
silencered1935
multicalibre1983
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. vi. 17 Soupyng placeȝ & þre chaumbred: þou schalt make in it.
1483 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 16 A thre chambred hous made of vawte stones.
c1550 in Archaeologia 107 195/1 Ordenaunce and munycyons... Chambred Fawcons.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Agucchia To finde the thicknes of chambred peeces of the breach.
1692 W. Bromley Remarks Grande Tour France & Italy 43 The Mortar-pieces, which I observed to be all Chambered.
c1764 J. Smeaton Reports (1812) I. 212 They are seldom rebored so long as a new leathered piston can be got in at the mouth so as to fill the chambered part.
1796 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars with Barbary Powers (1939) I. 130 Remarks..relative to the New Brig, for the Deyof Algiers... 2 good Chambered pumps, pump well Snug—Pump geer.
1836 W. Buckland Geol. & Mineral. I. xv. 332 Families of fossil chambered shells, that possessed siphunculi.
1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 118 Although not a chambered gun, it will be seen..to be an attempt to obtain uniformity of thickness in every part of the arc.
1892 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation (ed. 4) II. 291 Simple or one-chambered hearts.
1922 Gas Manuf., Distribution & Use (Brit. Commerc. Gas Assoc.) ii. 90/1 He then tried an arrangement consisting of a chambered drum revolving horizontally in water.
1960 C. Williamson Amer. Suffrage iv. 68 Legislative power had been vested in a single-chambered legislature, the Witan.
1991 Munic. Rev. & AMA News Jan.–Feb. 241/4 MGB Waste Systems Ltd are supplying the 4,000 households with two 240 litre MEKAM dual chambered bins free of charge.
2001 N.Y. Times 14 Oct. a18/2 Goats, with their four-chambered stomachs and seemingly limitless appetite for thorny brush, become fixtures in the landscape.
b. Archaeology. Of a tomb: containing one or more burial chambers. Cf. chamber n. 10c.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [adjective]
mausolean1785
chambered1840
mausoleal1883
transepted1939
1840 E. C. Gray Tour to Sepulchres of Etruria ix. 444 The most perfectly preserved..of any of the many chambered sephulcres we visited.
1869 Archaeologia 42 233 The surprising similarity between the winter huts of the Esquimaux and the chambered tumuli of Sweden and Denmark.
1907 T. R. Holmes Anc. Brit. i. iii. 106 Intimately related to certain chambered long barrows and the famous horned cairns, which exist only in Caithness.
1952 V. G. Childe & W. D. Simpson Anc. Monuments Scotl. 15 Chambered cairns were used for burials over several generations.
1999 R. Deakin Waterlog (2000) ii. 9 I set off past the Great Pool, a shallow fresh-water tarn outside the modest Hell Bay Hotel.., climbed Gweal Hill and found a ruined Bronze-age chambered tomb.
2. Bent like a bow, arched; = cambered adj. at camber v. Derivatives. Obsolete.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > slightly upwards in the middle
chambered1480
cambered1627
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 353 Þey [sc. the Irish] dryueþ hir hors wiþ a chambre ȝerde in þe ouer ende [L. virgam in superiori parte cameratam].]
1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. xxvii They driue their horses with a chambred yerd in the ouer ende In stede of bittes.
1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale ix. 67 Well plantes the gapps with chambred iron slinges.
3. Enclosed, confined, or taking place in a chamber. Cf. chamber v. 1b. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [adjective] > types of saddle
chamberedc1540
upper-flapped1850
McClellan1864
centre-fire1904
poley1930
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > [adjective] > enclosed > in or as in other specific enclosure or receptacle
chamberedc1540
housed1569
bagged1572
celled1586
arboured1606
closeteda1649
vesselled1660
cabineted1680
encysted1705
caverned1734
mounded1807
castled1821
casketed1822
styed1829
tree-embowered1866
tunnelled1901
c1540 Image Ipocrysy i, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 419 Your closse chambred drabbes.
1604 T. Dekker Newes from Graues-end sig. F2v So many Incests, violent Rapes, Chambered adulteries, vncleane passions, Wanton habits, riotous fashions.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iv. ii. 218 If they were once out of their Game, chamber'd, or kept idle.
a1849 T. L. Beddoes Pygmalion in Poems (1851) 156 The chambered ladies silenced the half-song.

Compounds

chambered nautilus n. Zoology = nautilus n. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Tetrabranchiata > family Nautilidae > species nautilus
nautilus1601
chambered nautilus1777
1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 286 The Pearly Chambered Nautilus, or Sailor.]
1777 E. Jacob Plantæ Favershamienses 143 The chambered Nautilus, is a common Fossil of these Cliffs.
1892 Science 30 Dec. 369/2 The first horizontal cases contain shells of the Paper Nautilus; then several species of the Chambered Nautilus.
2004 Amer. Biol. Teacher 66 384/3 Footage of the Chambered Nautilus is shown, exhibiting how they come to surface at night to feed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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