| 单词 | chamber |
| 释义 | chamber (once / 112 pages) 1nv 2n A chamber is an enclosed space, often where a specific event usually takes place — such as a sleeping chamber or a torture chamber. The history of the word chamber is an interesting one. The Latin word for room was camera. The original word for camera was camera obscura, or "dark chamber," since it was a big black box. Now, the word chamber can refer to any enclosed space — such as the chamber of a gun or the four chambers of your heart. WORD FAMILYchamber: antechamber, chambered, chambering+/antechamber: antechambers USAGE EXAMPLESThe gas tax effort failed, earning the ire of the state chamber. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) The budget hearings will be held in the House chamber at the state Capitol. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) But don’t convene a town hall meeting or get your dandruff up in the echo chamber over them. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1 1n a natural or artificial enclosed space Exp|Hypo|Hyper Holy Sepulcher the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection Mausoleum at Halicarnasusa white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king; destroyed in 1402 Taj Mahalbeautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife air lock, airlock a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure air-raid shelter, bomb shelter, bombproofa chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulturea chamber that is used as a grave caisson, cofferdam, pneumatic caissonlarge watertight chamber used for construction under water camera obscuraa darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface corethe chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place cylinder, piston chambera chamber within which piston moves firing chamber, gun chamberchamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge furnacean enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. hyperbaric chambera large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere; used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning particle detectora chamber in which particles can be made visible cavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonatora hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves steam chestthe chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder fireroom, stokehold, stokehole(nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired packing box, stuffing boxa small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal tokamaka doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle vacuum chambera chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed athanora furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature; used by alchemists blast furnacea furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air brake cylinder, hydraulic brake cylinder, master cylindera cylinder that contains brake fluid that is compressed by a piston bubble chamberan instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles Wilson cloud chamber, cloud chamberapparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor; each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track cremation chamber, crematorium, crematorya furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes crypta cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church) cupolaa vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting electric furnaceany furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current fireboxa furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned forgefurnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping gas furnacea furnace that burns gas incineratora furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse) kilna furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks mausoleuma large burial chamber, usually above ground oil burner, oil furnacea furnace that burns oil open-hearth furnacea furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it monument, repositorya burial vault (usually for some famous person) reverberatory furnacea furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace body, soundboxa resonating chamber in a musical instrument (as the body of a violin) soundboard, sounding board(music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument spark chamber, spark counteran instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles tank furnacefurnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained burial vault, vaulta burial chamber (usually underground) enclosure a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose 2n a room where a judge transacts business Hypo|Hyper divan, diwan a Muslim council chamber or law court room an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling 3n a room used primarily for sleeping Syn|Hypo|Hyper bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room boudoir a lady's bedroom or private sitting room child's rooma bedroom for a child dorm room, dormitory, dormitory rooma large sleeping room containing several beds guestrooma bedroom that is kept for the use of guests hotel rooma bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel master bedroomthe principal bedroom in a house; usually occupied by the head of the household motel rooma sleeping room in a motel adjoining rooma hotel room that shares a wall with another hotel room connecting rooma hotel room that shares a wall with an adjoining room and is connected by a private door baby's room, nurserya child's room for a baby room an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling 4n an enclosed volume in the body the chambers of his heart were healthy Hypo|Hyper heart ventricle, ventricle a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries atriumany chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart) left ventriclethe chamber on the left side of the heart that receives arterial blood from the left atrium and pumps it into the aorta right ventriclethe chamber on the right side of the heart that receives venous blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the pulmonary trunk atrium cordis, atrium of the heartthe upper chamber of each half of the heart bodily cavity, cavity, cavum (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body 5v place in a chamber 2Hyper domiciliate, house, put up provide housing for n a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly the upper chamber is the senate Hyper assembly a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose |
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