chamber

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/    美 /ˈt͡ʃeɪmbɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A room or set of rooms; The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
    — Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  2. A room or set of rooms; A bedroom.
  3. A room or set of rooms; The private office of a judge.
  4. A room or set of rooms; The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
  5. A room or set of rooms; A single law office in a building housing several. UK
  6. A room or set of rooms; Rooms in a lodging house. dated,plural-normally
    — A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition.
  7. Ellipsis of chamber pot (“a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers”). abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis,obsolete
    — "Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang."
  8. The legislature or division of the legislature itself. figuratively
    — The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
  9. Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
    — A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
  10. An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
  11. The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
    — Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
  12. One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
  13. A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades. historical
  14. One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
动词 v.
  1. To enclose in a room. transitive
    — She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
  2. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
    — I chambered with Alexander Preston.
  3. To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition. transitive
    — The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
  4. To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber. transitive
    — The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
  5. 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. transitive
    — Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
  6. To be lascivious. obsolete

词形变化

chambers plural chambre alternative chambers present,singular,third-person chambering participle,present chambered participle,past chambered past chambre alternative

词汇关系

近义词
lust
衍生词
air chamber antechamber anterior chamber barochamber bedchamber biochamber black chamber blue chamber bridal chamber bridechamber brood chamber bubble chamber burial chamber chamber candlestick chamber composer chamber ensemble chamberesque chamber foreign chamberful chamber gate chamber horse chamberlain chamber lamp chamberlet chamberlike chamber lye chambermaid chambermate chamber music chamber of commerce chamber of horrors chamber opera chamber orchestra chamber organ chamber play chamber pop chamber pot chamberstick chamber tomb chamber utensil chamberware chamberwoman chamber-work climate chamber cloud chamber combustion chamber cryochamber death chamber decompression chamber dumb chamber echo chamber enchamber gas chamber guestchamber hemichamber horror chamber hyperbaric chamber hyperbaric oxygen chamber in chambers interchamber intrachamber lead chamber process lethal chamber living chamber lockchamber lower chamber macrochamber magma chamber microchamber multichamber outchamber phytochamber plenum chamber posterior chamber prechamber presence chamber pulp chamber rain chamber rechamber red chamber resonating chamber sole chamber star chamber subchamber time projection chamber Torricellian chamber torture chamber unchamber underchamber upper chamber Ussing chamber vacuum chamber widow's chamber Wilson chamber wire chamber yeoman of the chamber

词源

词源 1
From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
词源 2
From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
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