Definitions for: Chamber


[n] a room used primarily for sleeping
[n] a natural or artificial enclosed space
[n] a room where a judge transacts business
[n] an enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart)
[n] a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly; "the upper chamber is the senate"
[v] place in a chamber



Webster (1913) Definition: Cham"ber, n. [F. chambre, fr. L. camera vault, arched
roof, in LL. chamber, fr. Gr. ? anything with a vaulted roof
or arched covering; cf. Skr. kmar to be crooked. Cf.
Camber, Camera, Comrade.]
1. A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a
bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.



2. pl. Apartments in a lodging house. ``A bachelor's life in
chambers.'' --Thackeray.

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

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

5. 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.

6. pl. (Law.) 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.

7. A chamber pot. [Colloq.]

8. (Mil.)
(a) 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.
(b) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to
contain the powder.
(c) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on
its breech, without any carriage, formerly used
chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.

Air chamber. See Air chamber, in the Vocabulary.

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

Chamber council, a secret council. --Shak.

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

Chamber fellow, a chamber companion; a roommate; a chum.

Chamber hangings, tapestry or hangings for a chamber.

Chamber lye, urine. --Shak.

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

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

To sit at chambers, to do business in chambers, as a judge.


Cham"ber, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Chambered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Chambering.]
1. To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.

2. To be lascivious. [Obs.]


Cham"ber, v. t.
1. To shut up, as in a chamber. --Shak.

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

Synonyms: bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping room

See Also: abode, air lock, airlock, assembly, atrium, bodily cavity, boudoir, burial chamber, caisson, camera obscura, cavity, cavity resonator, cavum, child's room, cofferdam, core, cylinder, divan, diwan, domicile, domiciliate, dorm room, dormitory, dormitory room, dwelling, dwelling house, enclosure, fireroom, firing chamber, furnace, guestroom, gun chamber, habitation, heart ventricle, home, hotel room, house, hyperbaric chamber, master bedroom, motel room, packing box, piston chamber, pneumatic caisson, put up, resonating chamber, resonator, room, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture, steam chest, stokehold, stokehole, stuffing box, tokamak, vacuum chamber, ventricle

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