| 单词 | chamber |
| 释义 | chamber /chaym"beuhr/, n. 1. a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, esp. a bedroom: She retired to her chamber. 2. a room in a palace or official residence. 3. the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly. 4. chambers, Law. a. a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court. b. the private office of a judge. c. (in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, esp. in the Inns of Court. 5. a legislative, judicial, or other like body: the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature. 6. an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose. 7. the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office. 8. (in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it. 9. a compartment or enclosed space; cavity: a chamber of the heart. 10. (in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock. 11. a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon. 12. (in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge. 13. See chamber pot. adj. 14. of, pertaining to, or performing chamber music: chamber players. v.t. 15. to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber. 16. to provide with a chamber. [1175-1225; ME chambre < OF < L camera, var. of camara vaulted room, vault < Gk kamára] |
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