Definition of Chamber

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Chamber

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

Apartments in a lodging house.

A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.

A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.

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.

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.

A chamber pot.

That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; -- formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.

A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.

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

To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.

To be lascivious.

To shut up, as in a chamber.

To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.

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Chamber Quotations

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Huey Newton

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.
Bruce Babbitt

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.
Gustav Mahler

Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
Orrin Hatch

I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process.
Jay Inslee

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.
Peter Maxwell Davies

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
Elvis Costello

Chamber Translations

chamber in Afrikaans is kamer
chamber in Dutch is lokaal, vertrek, kamer
chamber in Finnish is huone
chamber in French is ventricule, chambre
chamber in German is Zimmer, Kammer
chamber in Italian is camera
chamber in Swedish is rum, kammare

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