chamber

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

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/ˈtʃeɪmbə(ɹ)/

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a room or space inside something used for a special purpose

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After the banquet, the noble retired to his chamber to write a letter by candlelight.

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意味（1）

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.

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意味（2）

A bedroom.

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The private office of a judge.

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The room used for deliberation by a legislature.

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(UK) A single law office in a building housing several.

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(dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.

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.

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(obsolete) Ellipsis of chamber pot.: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.

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.

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(figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.

The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.

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Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.

A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber

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(biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.

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(firearms) 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.

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(firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.

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(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.

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One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.

chambers （ plural ）