CHAMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chamber mean? 

• CHAMBER (noun)
  The noun CHAMBER has 5 senses:

1. a natural or artificial enclosed space

2. an enclosed volume in the body

3. a room where a judge transacts business

4. a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly

5. a room used primarily for sleeping

  Familiarity information: CHAMBER used as a noun is common.

• CHAMBER (verb)
  The verb CHAMBER has 1 sense:

1. place in a chamber

  Familiarity information: CHAMBER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHAMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural or artificial enclosed space

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):

enclosure (a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chamber"):

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)

cylinder; piston chamber (a chamber within which piston moves)

particle detector (a chamber in which particles can be made visible)

cavity resonator; resonating chamber; resonator (a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves)

steam chest (the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder)

fireroom; stokehold; stokehole ((nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired)

packing box; stuffing box (a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal)

tokamak (a doughnut-shaped chamber used in fusion research; a plasma is heated and confined in a magnetic bottle)

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

furnace (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)

firing chamber; gun chamber (chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge)

core (the chamber of a nuclear reactor containing the fissile material where the reaction takes place)

camera obscura (a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface)

caisson; cofferdam; pneumatic caisson (large watertight chamber used for construction under water)

burial chamber; sepulcher; sepulchre; sepulture (a chamber that is used as a grave)

air-raid shelter; bomb shelter; bombproof (a chamber (often underground) reinforced against bombing and provided with food and living facilities; used during air raids)

air lock; airlock (a chamber that provides access to space where air is under pressure)

Derivation:

chamber (place in a chamber)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An enclosed volume in the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Context example:

the chambers of his heart were healthy

Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):

bodily cavity; cavity; cavum ((anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chamber"):

heart ventricle; ventricle (a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries)

atrium (any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A room where a judge transacts business

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chamber"):

divan; diwan (a Muslim council chamber or law court)

Derivation:

chamber (place in a chamber)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the upper chamber is the senate

Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):

assembly (a group of persons who are gathered together for a common purpose)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A room used primarily for sleeping

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bedchamber; bedroom; chamber; sleeping accommodation; sleeping room

Hypernyms ("chamber" is a kind of...):

room (an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling)

Meronyms (parts of "chamber"):

bed (a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chamber"):

child's room (a bedroom for a child)

dorm room; dormitory; dormitory room (a large sleeping room containing several beds)

guestroom (a bedroom that is kept for the use of guests)

hotel room (a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel)

master bedroom (the principal bedroom in a house; usually occupied by the head of the household)

motel room (a sleeping room in a motel)

boudoir (a lady's bedroom or private sitting room)

Holonyms ("chamber" is a part of...):

abode; domicile; dwelling; dwelling house; habitation; home (housing that someone is living in)

• CHAMBER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Place in a chamber

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "chamber" is one way to...):

domiciliate; house; put up (provide housing for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

chamber (a natural or artificial enclosed space)

chamber (a room where a judge transacts business)

 Context examples 

At baseline, mice preferred to be in the social chamber, but after researchers inactivated the cerebellar projections into the VTA, the mice no longer showed this preference.

(New Findings Reveal Surprising Role of the Cerebellum in Reward and Social Behaviors, National Institutes of Health)

Cells are held in a clear microfluidic chamber made of silicone.

(Scientists say new medical diagnostic chip can sort cells anywhere with an inkjet, Wikinews)

Some termite species cultivate fungi in "gardens" in subterranean nests or chambers, helping to convert plant material into a more easily digestible termite food source.

(Researchers discover oldest evidence of 'farming' by insects, NSF)

In most experiments, each cell type was then injected into one of two chambers embedded side-by-side in thumb-sized, plastic tissue chips and allowed to grow.

(Researchers begin recreating human spinal cords on a chip, National Institutes of Health)

A new study by University of Wyoming researchers suggests scientists can go back to the past to study present-day solidified magma chambers where the erosion has removed overlying rock, exposing granite underpinnings.

(Supervolcanoes like Yellowstone may have been more active in the past, NSF)

Inside experimental chambers, ecologists have been increasing carbon dioxide levels for more than 30 years.

(High carbon dioxide can create 'shrinking stems' in marshes, National Science Foundation)

The scientists found that the larvae oriented to the magnetic northwest in the chamber, and, although deprived of all other environmental cues, oriented toward the same magnetic direction in the MagLab.

(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)

And next morning when the king had his twelve huntsmen summoned, they went through the ante-chamber, and never once looked at the spinning-wheels.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The pool is over four times larger than a shallower, long-known magma chamber.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

The device consists of a semi-permeable membrane between two tiny chambers, one filled with maternal cells derived from a delivered placenta and the other filled with fetal cells derived from an umbilical cord.

(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)