chamber : Idioms & Phrases

• . See Air chamber, in the Vocabulary.

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• noun a chamber having very little reverberation
  

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• noun an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons
  

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• noun an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles
  

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• noun a chamber that is used as a grave
  sepulchre; sepulcher; sepulture.
  

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• a secret council. Shak.

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• a counselor who gives his opinion in private, or at his chambers, but does not advocate causes in court.

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• a chamber companion; a roommate; a chum.

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• tapestry or hangings for a chamber.

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• urine. Shak.

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• noun serious music performed by a small group of musicians
  

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• vocal or instrumental music adapted to performance in a chamber or small apartment or audience room, instead of a theater, concert hall, or chuch.

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• noun an association of businessmen to protect and promote business interests
  

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• a board or association to protect the interests of commerce, chosen from among the merchants and traders of a city.

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• noun small orchestra; usually plays classical music
  

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• (Law.), the practice of counselors at law, who give their opinions in private, but do not appear in court.

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• noun cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
  nautilus; pearly nautilus.
  

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• noun apparatus 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
  cloud chamber.
  

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• noun a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company)
  boardroom.
  

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• the room or apartment in which a council meets.

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• noun a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes
  crematory; crematorium.
  

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• noun instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals
  death chamber.
  

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• noun an enclosed space for producing reverberation of a sound
  

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• noun chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge
  firing chamber.
  

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• noun instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals
  death chamber.
  

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• a recess in the side wall of a canal lock, which receives the opened gate.

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• a room on the ground floor.

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• a guardroom.

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• noun chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge
  firing chamber.
  

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• noun a large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere; used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning
  

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• the, the sovereign court of the old German empire.

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• noun a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation
  ionization tube.
  

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• noun enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it
  lock.
  

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• the inclosed space between the gates of a canal lock.

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• adjective satellite having many chambers
  

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• (Zoöl.), the cavity inclosed by the mantle.

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• noun a chamber within which piston moves
  cylinder.
  

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• noun room in which a monarch or other great person receives guests, assemblies, etc.
  

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• the room in which a great personage receives company. Addison." Chambers of presence." Bacon.

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• a private apartment in a royal residence. Eng.

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• noun a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves
  cavity resonator; resonator.
  

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• a room where a senate meets when it transacts business.

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• noun English architect (1723-1796)
  Chambers; Sir William Chambers.
  

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• noun an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles
  spark counter.
  

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• noun a former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments
  

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Star"-cham`ber noun

Etymology

So called (as conjectured by Blackstone) from being held in a room at the Exchequer where the chests containing certain Jewish comtracts and obligations called starrs (from the Heb. shetar, pron. shtar) were kept; or from the stars with which the ceiling is supposed to have been decorated.

Definitions

1. (Eng. Hist.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641. Encyc. Brit.

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• the chamber of a pump into which the suction pipe delivers.

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• noun a mechanical device for holding something and supplying it as needed
  

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• to do business in chambers, as a judge.

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• noun a room in which torture is inflicted
  

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• adjective satellite consisting of two chambers
  bicameral.
  
  • the bicameral heart of a fish

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• noun a chamber from which nearly all matter (especially air) has been removed
  

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• (Eng. Law), in London, the apparel and furniture of the bedchamber of the widow of a freeman, to which she was formerly entitled.

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• noun English architect (1723-1796)
  Chambers; Sir William Chambers.
  

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• noun apparatus 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
  cloud chamber.
  

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