亚洲网紅露点

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chamber

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noun

  1. a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom:

    She retired to her chamber.

  2. a room in a palace or official residence.
  3. the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.
  4. chambers, Law.
    1. a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court.
    2. the private office of a judge.
    3. (in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.
  5. a legislative, judicial, or other like body:

    the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature.

  6. an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.
  7. the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.
  8. (in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.
  9. a compartment or enclosed space; cavity:

    a chamber of the heart.

  10. (in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.
  11. a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.
  12. (in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.


adjective

  1. of, relating to, or performing chamber music:

    chamber players.

verb (used with object)

  1. to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.
  2. to provide with a chamber.

chamber

/ 藞迟蕛别瑟尘产蓹 /

noun

  1. a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly
  2. a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc
  3. archaic.
    a room in a private house, esp a bedroom
    1. a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly
    2. any of the houses of a legislature
  4. an enclosed space; compartment; cavity

    the smallest chamber in the caves

  5. the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc
  6. an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon
  7. obsolete.
    a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury
  8. short for chamber pot
  9. the freezing room in an abattoir
  10. modifier of, relating to, or suitable for chamber music

    a chamber concert

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to put in or provide with a chamber
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 耻苍顎僤别谤路肠丑补尘顎卋别谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of chamber1

1175鈥1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek 办补尘谩谤补
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of chamber1

C13: from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera room, Latin: vault, from Greek kamara
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Despite the growing chaos outside, MPs remained in the chamber and the voting began.

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Many in the tour group wore rubber boots as they stood on moist concrete in a chamber faintly lit by filtered sunlight, peering into the dark tunnel.

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The company has also lit the press briefing room at Camp David, several committee rooms for both chambers of Congress and the main chamber of the U.S.

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Another recording, from a nearby security camera apparently without sound, appeared to show Lauren chambering a round and raising the gun, followed by police bullets kicking up dirt near her feet a moment after.

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This is creating a 3D map that shows how the hydrothermal system is connected to the volcano's magma chamber where an eruption is generated.

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