What's the difference between antechamber and anteroom?

Antechamber


Definition:

  • (n.) A chamber or apartment before the chief apartment and leading into it, in which persons wait for audience; an outer chamber. See Lobby.
  • (n.) A space viewed as the outer chamber or the entrance to an interior part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "But more than that, I believe we are standing in the antechamber of a new global economy, marked by rapidly shifting circumstances and new modes of thinking."
  • (2) After 30 min of rest in a 20 degrees C antechamber, the HST consisted of a 120-min exposure (2 repeats of 15 min rest and 45 min walking) in a hot (35 degrees C, 45% relative humidity) environment.
  • (3) Gallic leaders since Napoleon have traditionally kept lovers hovering in antechambers, to the extent that they are interchangeable with spouses.
  • (4) If the ascites fluid contains much protein, repeated depressing and releasing of the antechamber has to be performed in order to avoid obstruction.
  • (5) To carry a large current the narrow region must be short, with wide antechambers to reduce the diffusional access resistance (48).
  • (6) The HSTs consisted of 30 min of rest in a 20 degrees C antechamber, followed by a 120-min exposure (2 repeats of 15 min rest and 45 min walking) in a hot (35 degrees C, 45% rh) environment.
  • (7) After 30 min of rest in a 20 degrees C antechamber, the HST consisted of a 120-min exposure (2 repeats of 15 min rest and 45 min treadmill walking) in a hot (35 degrees C, 45% rh) environment while euhydrated.
  • (8) Like her beloved Madiba, Graça Machel now stands in the antechamber of history, with yet another extraordinary future role almost the only sensible prediction.
  • (9) I read aloud a list of suspect details: did Turner actually welcome patrons into a candlelit antechamber so that when they were released into his studio, the luminous canvases would seem more brilliant?
  • (10) But the antechamber to Lowe's replica contains a series of panels explaining the significance of the real thing.
  • (11) These two components may be linked through a buffer compartment for H+ (an antechamber).
  • (12) After 30 min of rest in a 20 degrees C antechamber the HST consisted of a 140-min exposure (4 repeats of 10 min rest and 25 min treadmill walking) in a hot-dry (49 degrees C, 20% relative humidity) environment.
  • (13) From patients who were treated with a shunt another CSF sample was obtained one week after shunt implantation by puncture of the antechamber of the valve.
  • (14) While temperature changes were being effected the subjects rested in an antechamber.

Anteroom


Definition:

  • (n.) A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cooled by a floor fan, nurses, doctors and support staff in blue scrubs move through the small anteroom next to the isolation ward to juggle the needs of the desperately ill patients inside as a stream of people knock on the canvas door asking for updates on their loved ones.
  • (2) But over 45 years, an individual employer thinking of taking on someone and wondering ‘Can they manage?’, might have thought, ‘That guy reached senior positions in the cabinet, perhaps I will interview that person.’ Perhaps there is hope.” Stacks of boxes crowd his anteroom.
  • (3) During half of an hour of chit-chat in an anteroom, before taking their place at the dinner table, May told Juncker that she didn’t want just to talk Brexit during the evening but there were other matters of world affairs to discuss.
  • (4) ’ As he’s leaving the room he’s taking his jacket off to go outside.” Hookem said the pair went into a small anteroom off the meeting venue, using different doors: “When I walked in, he approached me to attack me.
  • (5) Cameron had sought out Kirchner at the margins of the G20 in an anteroom before the first working session got underway.
  • (6) In Bob Rafelson's The King Of Marvin Gardens, the Atlantic City of 1972 becomes the anteroom to Paradise for two brothers: one a depressive talk-radio host, the other a manic huckster.
  • (7) When handling stress was minimized by placing the animals in an anteroom for 10 min before starting the test, the distribution of responding was normal although the overall frequency was still reduced.
  • (8) I go through that endless anteroom between extreme violence and the stupefied awareness of that violence.
  • (9) "All employment for women, then, was regarded as being an anteroom to marriage.
  • (10) The number of superfluous young people condemned to the anteroom of the modern world, an expanded Calais in its squalor and hopelessness, has grown exponentially in recent decades, especially in Asia and Africa’s youthful societies.
  • (11) The very first step began with the "sensus communis", an anteroom-like where all the sensations simultaneously perceived were coordinated to ensure mind unity.
  • (12) A couple of hours later, he was in the cabinet secretary's anteroom, where Sir Robert produced two files.

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