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Chamber


Definition:

  • (n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.
  • (n.) Apartments in a lodging house.
  • (n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.
  • (n.) A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A chamber pot.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder.
  • (n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades.
  • (v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
  • (v. i.) To be lascivious.
  • (v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Content of cyclic nucleoside monophosphates was decreased in all the eye tissues in experimental toxico-allergic uveitis as well as penetration of cAMP into the fluid of anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (2) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
  • (3) This is due to changes with energy in the relative backscattered electron fluence between chamber support and phantom materials.
  • (4) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
  • (5) and then placed in the chamber containing a CO atmosphere (0.325-0.375%).
  • (6) Histologic examination of the anterior and posterior chambers and the vitreous led to a diagnosis of endophthalmitis caused by Coccidioides immitis infection.
  • (7) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (8) The compatibility with Gentamycin solution used for irrigation of the anterior chamber of the eye was studied in experiments performed on rabbits.
  • (9) The flow of a specified concentration of test gas exits from the mixing board, enters a distributing tube, and is then distributed equally to 12 chamber tubes housing one mouse each.
  • (10) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
  • (11) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
  • (12) The so-called apparent accommodation has been measured in patients implanted with anterior chamber, iris support and posterior chamber IOLs.
  • (13) These patients did not have narrow anterior chamber angles preoperatively, and several were aphakix with surgical iris colobomas.
  • (14) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
  • (15) Rings of isolated coronary and femoral arteries (without endothelium) were suspended for isometric tension recording in organ chambers filled with modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate solution.
  • (16) It is borrowed from the UN, where it normally hangs outside the security council chamber.
  • (17) The energy required for perforation from the external surface to the anterior chamber was the same as the energy required for ab interno perforation.
  • (18) What we see from those opposite and we see in this chamber every day is the 'born to rule mentality' of those opposite.
  • (19) Dioptric aniseikonia was calculated between 1 month and 24 months after surgery (with Gruber's and Huber's computer program) on the basis of most recently obtained values (bulb axis length, depth of the anterior chamber, lens thickness, necessary refraction), and compared with subjective measurements taken with the phase difference haploscope.
  • (20) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.

Chambermaid


Definition:

  • (n.) A maidservant who has the care of chambers, making the beds, sweeping, cleaning the rooms, etc.
  • (n.) A lady's maid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Also ruled inadmissible was the account of a former chambermaid from the Holiday Inn in Leicester, who came forward during his trial with evidence to say she had discovered him in the bath with a girl she believed, but couldn’t be sure, was about 12.
  • (2) There are tales of hotel chambermaids and shepherds being told to pack their bags, and then come back as hired guns to grab work as and when their former employers require it.
  • (3) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
  • (4) They also reflected his experience of London and life outside it: Beatie was inspired by Doreen Bicker, a chambermaid at The Bell Hotel, Norwich, where Wesker was working as a kitchen porter.
  • (5) What about the struggling window cleaner who can only find a few hours, or indeed the hotel chambermaid who’s been reluctantly reinvented as a business?
  • (6) His first sketch involved Mike or Bernie asking at a hotel for breakfast in bed and winding up in his room with a chambermaid played by Cilla Black.
  • (7) At various stages of her career she has been a chambermaid, a model and an entrepreneur.
  • (8) The Mountaintop is a simple two-hander: Martin Luther King talks to chambermaid Carmae in his hotel room.
  • (9) This is part of the Citizens UK rolling campaign to raise poverty pay for cleaners, security guards, hotel chambermaids and others.
  • (10) Here, Liliane Bettencourt, 88, the richest woman in France, is waited on by 17 staff, including chambermaids, cooks, hairdressers, nurses and a beautician who undertakes the daily "preparation of her skin" before her makeup is applied.
  • (11) Substantial and statistically significant excesses of spontaneous abortion were observed in nursing aides, women in sales occupations and food and beverage service; of stillbirth in agriculture and horticulture, leatherwork, and certain sales occupations; of congenital defects in women in child care, certain service occupations, and the manufacture of metal and electrical goods; and of low birth weight in chambermaids, cleaners, and janitors, and in women employed in the manufacture of food and drink, metal and electrical goods, and clothing.
  • (12) "There was the analogy of the chambermaid in the hotel who sees something go on; you can't pay her because she has a duty of care to the employer.
  • (13) Five years ago Citizens UK campaigned hard to persuade Hilton to pay the living wage ( in London now £8.80 an hour ), with cleaners and chambermaids waving placards outside their hotels.
  • (14) The butler has a theory, and so does the second chambermaid.

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