Definition of chamber(s) in English English dictionary
- chamber
- In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy
Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila, having studied her Agrippa, used Bruce Lee's one-inch punch to break his nose.
- chamber
- A room, especially one used primarily for sleeping; bedroom, sleeping room
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
- chamber
- To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber
The rifle was originally chambered for 9MM, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
- chamber
- One of the legislative bodies in a government where multiple such bodies exist, or a single such body in comparison to others
The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
- chamber
- To enclose in a room
She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
- chamber
- To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition
The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
- chamber
- An enclosed space. For example, a test chamber is typically a closable case where devices under test are placed
- chamber
- In a firearm, this is the portion of the weapon that holds the ammunition round immediately prior to (and during initiation of) its discharge
Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
- chamber ensemble
- A musical ensemble of modest size, to play chamber music; can be more specifically named after its number (from duo to nonet) and/or type(s) (e.g. wood, brass, strings) of instruments
- chamber music
- A genre of classical music written for a small group of instruments
- chamber of commerce
- an association of businesses to promote their interests in a community
The US Chamber of Commerce represents Big Business nationally, but state and local chambers of commerce are for smaller businesses locally.
- chamber orchestra
- An orchestra of modest size, to play chamber music, yet larger then the various chamber ensembles named after their number of instruments (from duo to nonet)
- chamber orchestras
- plural form of chamber orchestra
- chamber organ
- a small pipe organ
- chamber pot
- A bowl kept in a bedroom to serve as a temporary toilet
- chamber pots
- plural form of chamber pot
- chamber-work
- The work of a chambermaid
- chamber-work
- Sex, fornication
Jacchinus instanceth in a patient of his, that married a young wife in a hot summer, “and so dried himself with chamber-work, that he became in short space, from melancholy, mad”: he cured him by moistening remedies.
- chamber
- {i} room (particularly a bedroom); office; meeting room; legislature; compartment
- chamber of commerce
- An organisation of a group of local businesses who get together to help each other with things like training and marketing
- chamber of commerce
- an association of businessmen to protect and promote business interests
- chamber of commerce
- An association of businessmen whose purpose is to promote commercial and industrial interests in the community
- chamber
- {n} a part of a house, gune or mine, a cavity
- chamber
- {v} to riot, revel, intrigue, keep close
- chamber of horrors
- A place of entertainment containing instruments or scenes of torture or execution (from the name given to a room in Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition)
- chamber
- place in a chamber
- chamber
- To be lascivious
- chamber
- Another word for House of Representatives of Senate Also refers to the actual room where legislative action takes place
- chamber
- a natural or artificial enclosed space
- chamber
- A chamber is a room designed and equipped for a particular purpose. For many, the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber. see also gas chamber. bubble chamber chamber music chamber of commerce cloud chamber Star Chamber hyperbaric chamber recompression chamber decompression chamber
- chamber
- That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp
- chamber
- {f} place in a chamber; assign a room to
- chamber
- A narrower portion of the bore, at its base Most typically found in howitzers, it allows a projectile to be fired using less powder than a gun of the same caliber
- chamber
- The meeting place for the membership of either the House or Senate A chamber is often referred to as "the floor "
- chamber
- as regards the U S government, either the House of Representatives or the Senate
- chamber
- Part of the gun in which the propellant charge is placed In a bag gun, that space between the obturator or breechblock and the forcing cone In fixed or semi-fixed ammunition, the space occupied by the cartridge case
- chamber
- A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades
- chamber
- The rear part of the barrel that is formed to accept the cartridge to be fired A revolver employs a multi-chambered rotating cylinder separated from the stationary barrel
- chamber
- The rear end of a gun barrel, into which the powder charge was rammed when loading Chambers of howitzers and mortars were usually smaller in diameter then the bore
- chamber
- The official room or location for meetings of a legislative body
- chamber
- A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder
- chamber
- A chamber pot
- chamber
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers
- chamber
- A retired room, esp
- chamber
- 1) An Echo Chamber (a room designed with very hard, non-parallel surfaces equipped with a speaker and microphone so that when dry signals from the console are fed to the speaker, the microphone will have a reverberation of these signals that can be mixed in with the dry signals at the console) 2) A program in a delay/reverb effects device that simulates the sound of an Echo Chamber
- chamber
- The place in which the senate or house of representatives meet Also a generic way to refer to a house of the legislature
- chamber
- in breech-loading guns
- chamber
- a room where a judge transacts business
- chamber
- The place where the Senate and House of Representatives meet
- chamber
- the meeting room of a house of Parliament
- chamber
- To shut up, as in a chamber
- chamber
- A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court
- chamber
- The Assembly or Senate chamber where Floor Sessions are held
- chamber
- an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart)
- chamber
- A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber
- chamber
- A meeting place for either the House or Senate (as opposed to a committee room)
- chamber
- The meeting place for the membership of either the House or the Senate
- chamber
- an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers
- chamber
- Apartments in a lodging house
- chamber
- A chamber is a large room, especially one that is used for formal meetings. We are going to make sure we are in the council chamber every time he speaks
- chamber
- a natural or artificial enclosed space a room where a judge transacts business an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart) a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"
- chamber
- when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp
- chamber
- a room used primarily for sleeping
- chamber
- (see holding chamber) This is a component of the AeroMask* Equine System that holds the aerosol cloud in suspension while the horse inhales It serves to separate the large, non-respirable particles from the small particles which are inhaled
- chamber
- Either the House of Representatives or the Senate
- chamber
- (also called holding chamber) This is a component of the AeroKat* Feline Aerosol Chamber that holds the aerosol cloud in suspension while the feline inhales It serves to separate the large, non-respirable particles from the small particles which are inhaled
- chamber
- The place where a house of parliament sits In Queensland there is only one active chamber, the Legislative Assembly The Legislative Council was abolished in 1922
- chamber
- The bodies, the Senate and the House of Representatives that comprise Congress and [2] the ornate meeting rooms in the Capitol building where the Senate and the House conducts its business
- chamber
- Also known as the "floor," it is the room in which the Senate or the House of Representatives meets
- chamber
- You can refer to a country's parliament or to one section of it as a chamber. More than 80 parties are contesting seats in the two-chamber parliament Signor Amato's government has only a 16-seat majority in the Chamber of Deputies. = house
- chamber
- To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun
- chamber
- A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye
- chamber
- A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce
- chamber
- A legislative, judicial or deliberative assembly
- chamber
- The meeting place for the membership of either house of the legislature where official business by the entire membership is conducted
- chamber
- A place where the legislative body meets to conduct business In the U S we have two chambers, one each for the House and Senate respectively
- chamber
- a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"
- chamber
- the meeting room of a house of Parliament a law-making body
- chamber concert
- concert of chamber music (music suited for performance in a room or small auditorium and having about two to ten solo instruments)
- chamber music
- Chamber music is classical music written for a small number of instruments. Compositions traditionally intended for performance in a private room or small concert hall and written for an instrumental ensemble, such as a trio or quartet, with one player for each part. classical music written for a small group of instruments. Music composed for small instrumental ensembles and performed without a conductor. Traditionally intended for performance in a room or reception hall, often solely for the performers' own pleasure, chamber music is now often heard in concert halls. It began with the 16th-century instrumental consort, and long continued to be associated with aristocratic households. The duo sonata (usually for violin and continuo) and trio sonata appeared in early 17th-century Italy. The string quartet arose in the 1750s and remains the best-known chamber genre and ensemble. The serenade, nocturne, and divertimento were Classical genres for varying instrumental forces, often intended to accompany meals and other activities. Standard ensembles include the string trio (violin, viola, cello), string quintet (two violins, two violas, cello), and piano trio (piano, violin, cello). The chamber orchestra, usually with fewer than 25 musicians, is often used for 18th-century music and usually requires a conductor. See also sonata
- chamber music
- music designed for two to ten musicians and intended to be played in a small theater
- chamber music
- serious music performed by a small group of musicians
- chamber of commerce
- organization that organizes businesses in town
- chamber of commerce
- A chamber of commerce is an organization of businessmen that promotes local commercial interests. An association of businesspersons and merchants for the promotion of commercial interests in the community. chambers of commerce a group of business people in a particular town or area, working together to improve trade. or commercial association Any of various voluntary organizations of business firms, public officials, professional people, and public-spirited citizens whose primary interest is in publicizing, promoting, and developing commercial and industrial opportunities in their local area, and usually also community schools, streets, housing, and public works. The International Chamber of Commerce (founded 1920) acts as the voice of the business community in the international field and runs a court of arbitration for settling commercial disputes. National chambers of commerce exist in most industrialized, free-enterprise countries. The first to use the name was founded in Paris in 1601; the first U.S. chamber of commerce was that of the state of New York, founded in 1768
- chamber of commerce
- An organization of business people designed to advance the interests of its members There are three levels: national, state and local
- chamber of commerce
- group of business owners which promotes commercial interests
- chamber of deputies
- lower house of parliament (in the Italian government)
- chamber orchestra
- small orchestra; usually plays classical music
- chamber orchestra
- A chamber orchestra is a small orchestra which plays classical music. a small group of musicians who play classical music together
- chamber orchestra
- {i} group of 2 to 10 musicians which play chamber music
- chamber pot
- A chamber pot is a round container shaped like a very large cup. Chamber pots used to be kept in bedrooms so that people could urinate in them instead of having to leave their room during the night. A portable vessel used in a bedroom as a toilet. a round container for urine, used in a bedroom and kept under the bed in the past
- chamber pot
- portable toilet placed next to a bed, receptacle use to urinate or defecate in the bedroom
- chamber theater
- small theater intended for intimate performances
- chamber tomb
- A Neolithic tomb consisting of a chamber built out of large upright stones with one or more capstones, buried in an earthen mound
- chamber tomb
- room where people are buried
- air chamber
- a chamber, in a hydraulic system, in which air (or some other gas) is compressed to regulate the flow of a fluid
- black chamber
- A government or royal court's cryptanalyst department
- blue chamber
- A forbidden room
My mother dared not break the lock, as my father had prohibited any one from entering this, his blue chamber; and what was worse, he had the key.
- bubble chamber
- A vessel filled with a superheated transparent liquid (most often liquid hydrogen) used to detect electrically charged particles moving through it
- burial chamber
- A chamber, often below ground level, used to bury the remains of the dead
- combustion chamber
- An enclosed space, within a heat engine, in which the fuel is mixed and reacted with air or other oxidizing agent in a controlled manner
- echo chamber
- A room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose
- echo chamber
- An insular communication space that is of no interest to outsiders or refuses their input
But it would resound in the conservative media's echo chamber.
- echo chamber
- In music production, a sound effect that may be applied to live or recorded sounds through a sound editing process, which creates the impression that the sounds originated in an enclosed space which was conducive to echoes
- gas chamber
- a sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas
- hyperbaric chamber
- A vessel containing air at an elevated pressure, especially one used to administer oxygen to a patient
- hyperbaric oxygen chamber
- a pressurized vessel used to administer oxygen at elevated pressure
- magma chamber
- A large underground pool of molten rock lying under the surface of the earth's crust
- plenum chamber
- A pressurised housing
- resonating chamber
- a similar chamber that allows resonance of electromagnetic waves
- resonating chamber
- a chamber whose dimensions allow sound to echo and build up
- star chamber
- a legal or administrative body with strict, arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings
- yeoman of the chamber
- a servant in a royal household who had access to the bedchamber
- yeomen of the chamber
- plural form of yeoman of the chamber
- environmental chamber
- An enclosure used to test the effects of specified environmental conditions on biological items, industrial products, materials, and electronic devices and components
- presence-chamber
- {n} a room to receive company
- widow's chamber
- {n} certain effects of a deceased person falling to his widow in London
- Public Chamber
- (İdari Yönetim) The Public Chamber is a state institution with 126 members created in 2005 in Russia to analyze draft legislation and monitor the activities of the parliament, government and other government bodies of Russia and its Federal Subjects. It has a role similar to an oversight committee and has consultative powers. A convocation of the chamber is in power for a two-year term
- burial chamber
- A chamber that is used as a grave(synonym) sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture
- float chamber
- The cavity in a carburettor containing a device which floats on the surface of the fuel and seals off the flow as the level rises
- heart chamber
- (Tıp, İlaç) Heart chamber is a general term used to refer to any of the four of the mammalian heart
- pulp chamber
- (Diş) The natural cavity in the central portion of the tooth crown that is occupied by the dental pulp
- Air chamber
- A vertical, air filled pipe that prevents water hammer by absorbing pressure when water is shut off at a faucet or valve
- Air chamber
- An air-filled device that prevents water hammer by absorbing pressure when the water flow is shut off at a fixture
- Air chamber
- Capped piece of pipe, close to a plumbing fixture, which is partially filled with air Also called air cushions they are designed to absorb shock from abrupt water stoppage, which creates a noise known as water hammer
- air chamber
- A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine
- air chamber
- A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant
- anechoic chamber
- A room with little sound reverberation; a room constructed to be acoustically absorptive
- anechoic chamber
- An acoustic space without echo or reverberation Often used for the acoustic testing of microphones and loudspeakers
- anechoic chamber
- a chamber having very little reverberation
- anterior chamber
- The space between the iris and the cornea
- anterior chamber
- The space in front of the iris and behind the cornea
- anterior chamber
- the front section of the eye's interior where aqueous humor flows in and out of providing nourishment to the eye and surrounding tissues
- anterior chamber
- The part of the inside of the eye that is in front of the iris (the colored tissue in the eye)
- anterior chamber
- the part of the eye filled with a clear fluid between the iris and cornea
- anterior chamber
- part of the eye located in front of the iris This is where a IOL is placed if done after the initial cataract surgery or if a posterior chamber implant cannot be performed
- boron chamber
- an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons
- bubble chamber
- an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles
- cloud chamber
- apparatus that detects 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
- cloud chamber
- A detector filled with a gas close to its condensation point, where the ionizing particles' trajectories materialize in the form of tracks made of droplets
- cloud chamber
- A gas-filled device in which the path of charged subatomic particles can be detected by the formation of chains of droplets on ions generated by their passage. It is also used to infer the presence of neutral particles and to study certain nuclear reactions. Radiation detector developed by C.T.R. Wilson. Its detecting medium is a supersaturated vapour (see saturation) that condenses around ions produced by the passage of energetic charged particles, such as alpha particles, beta particles, or protons. In a Wilson cloud chamber, supersaturation is caused by the cooling induced by a sudden expansion of the saturated vapour by the motion of a piston or an elastic membrane. In a diffusion chamber, the saturated vapour is cooled to supersaturation as it diffuses into a region kept cold by a coolant such as solid carbon dioxide or liquid helium
- cloud chamber
- A chamber in which charged subatomic particles appear as trails of liquid droplets
- cloud chamber
- A glass-domed chamber filled with moist vapor When certain types of atomic particles pass through the chamber they leave a cloud-like track much like the vapor trail of a jet plane This permits scientists to "see" these particles and study their motion
- cloud chamber
- A device which is used to determine which elementary particles are being generated in a nuclear reaction What happens is that the elementary particles go zipping through a saturated water fog, and the ionized water molecules provide nucleation centers for the condensation of water From following these tracks, the identities of the particles can be determined
- combustion chamber
- (Otomotiv) The part of the cylinder within an engine block where the fuel/air mixture is compressed by the piston and ignited by a spark from the spark plug
- combustion chamber
- An enclosure in which combustion, especially of a fuel or propellant, is initiated and controlled. the enclosed space, for example in an engine, in which combustion happens
- combustion chamber
- chamber within an engine in which ignition of fuel takes place
- combustion chamber
- The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited
- council chamber
- boardroom: a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company)
- dark chamber
- small cell into which the sun shines only through a small opening
- death chamber
- room in which people are executed
- echo chamber
- A room or enclosure with acoustically reflective walls used in broadcasting and recording to produce echoes or similar sound effects
- firing chamber
- chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge
- fume-chamber
- compartment which absorbs smells fumes or smoke, chimney
- gas chamber
- sealed room where deadly gases are released (suffocating and killing the persons or creatures inside the room)
- gas chamber
- instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals
- 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
- lower chamber
- lower house of Parliament, one of the two houses of Parliament
- plenum chamber
- A chamber, located between the throttle body and the runners of an intake manifold, used to distribute the intake charge evenly and to enhance engine breathing
- plenum chamber
- A space or ducting through which air is passed in the process of cooling, heating, humidifying, or de-humidifying
- plenum chamber
- See: Chamber, plenum
- posterior chamber
- The space between the back of the iris and the front face of the vitreous; filled with aqueous fluid
- posterior chamber
- the back part of the eye's interior
- posterior chamber
- A space filled with clear fluid (called aqueous humor) behind the iris and in front of the lens
- posterior chamber
- the back section of the eye's interior
- posterior chamber
- Filled with aqueous fluid, the space between the back of the iris and the front face of the vitreous
- posterior chamber
- The space between the back of the iris and the front face of the vitreous It is filled with aqueous fluid
- posterior chamber
- In referring to the eye, that space between the back which is filled with aqueous fluid between the iris and front face of the vitreous
- presence chamber
- room in which a monarch or other great person receives guests, assemblies, etc
- pulp chamber
- (Dentistry) inner part of the tooth that includes nerve cells and blood vessels
- roof chamber
- attic, crawl space located under the roof of a building
- second chamber
- {i} (UK) upper house, one of two branches in a bicameral legislature (usually the one that is less representative and has fewer members)
- spark chamber
- A device consisting of electrically charged parallel metal plates in a chamber filled with inert gas, used to detect and measure a charged subatomic particle as it passes through the chamber, leaving a trail of sparks
- spark chamber
- measuring instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles
- star chamber
- a group of people that meets secretly and makes important decisions. British prerogative court that exercised wide civil and criminal jurisdiction and was marked by secrecy, the absence of juries, and an inquisitorial rather than accusatorial system of justice. It met in a room in the palace of Westminster whose ceiling was decorated with stars. It was employed extensively under Henry VIII because of its ability to enforce the law when other courts were unable to do so because of corruption and influence. When Charles I used it to enforce unpopular political and ecclesiastical policies, it became a symbol of oppression to his and Archbishop William Laud's parliamentary and Puritan opponents (though it never imposed the death penalty), and it was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641
- star chamber
- a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments
- star chamber
- {i} court or committee that works in a brutal arbitrary and unjust manner (named after such a court that operated in England approximately 500 years ago)
- star-chamber
- {s} arbitrary, characterized by secrecy, secret
- supply chamber
- a mechanical device for holding something and supplying it as needed
- upper chamber
- one of the two houses of parliament