What's the difference between room and showroom?

Room


Definition:

  • (n.) Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes up too much room.
  • (n.) A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
  • (n.) Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
  • (n.) Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station; also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied by, another, and vacated.
  • (n.) Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
  • (v. i.) To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to room together.
  • (a.) Spacious; roomy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Which means Seattle can't give Jones room to make 13-yard catches as they just did.
  • (2) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (3) In Essex, police are putting on extra patrols during and after England's first match and placing domestic violence intelligence teams in police control rooms.
  • (4) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (5) Physicians working in the emergency room gained 14.7% during that time of day the PNP was present.
  • (6) Pharmaceutical services were provided from a large tent near the hospital, which consisted of an emergency treatment facility, two operating rooms, and a small medical-surgical ward.
  • (7) Of the other patients, four panicked with sodium lactate, none with 5% CO2, and one with room air hyperventilation.
  • (8) Photolysis of the photosystem I particles induces a progressive depletion of phylloquinone, however, photochemistry as assayed at room temperature by the photooxidation of P-700 is unaffected.
  • (9) The measurements were carried out in rooms of houses in Southern Germany with radon activity concentrations in the range of 150-900 Bqm-3.
  • (10) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (11) With Air Sentinels in the bedroom and living room for airborne collections, and a Sample Vac for collections from living room carpet and bedroom mattress, immunochemical quantifications of each were made with various radiometric assays with polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
  • (12) Will the rate of late (four to five years) wound infection after operations done in a clean-air enclosure be lower than that after procedures done in a "normal" operating-room environment using preoperative, operative, and postoperative antibiotics?
  • (13) By using an interactive computer program to assess knowledge of the American Cancer Society cancer screening guidelines in a group of 306 family physicians, we found that knowledge of this subject continues to leave room for improvement.
  • (14) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
  • (15) It closes from 1 May to 1 Nov. • Doubles from $105 room only, +52 755 553 2802, edenmex.com 9.
  • (16) I can't think of a single room in the building that isn't used."
  • (17) The article reflects the experience in the work of the manual therapy consulting-room at the Smela town hospital named after N. A. Semashko in Chernigov Province from November 1985 to December 1987 inclusive.
  • (18) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
  • (19) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (20) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.

Showroom


Definition:

  • (n.) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.
  • (n.) A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Many businessmen like it.” At the entrance to Jiang’s swish showroom, customers are welcomed by posters of a cigar-smoking Winston Churchill and the Queen Mother, standing beside Land Rovers.
  • (2) Bert & May (his nickname is Bert, her middle name is May) stocks beautifully patterned, time-worn tiles along with reclaimed woods and marble at its east London showroom.
  • (3) Amazon has focused on undercutting recommended retail prices and has even provided price comparison apps that led to showrooming,” says Rayner.
  • (4) • circus-london.co.uk Chosen by Kitty Bang Bang Hackney Showroom Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Leviathon Show at Hackney Showroom.
  • (5) It is not irrelevant that Hamilton's father worked for a time as a demonstration driver for a car showroom in London's West End.
  • (6) It was like a showroom with coffins in it, you know?
  • (7) The oil boom has led to an influx of luxury brands and gleaming Rolls Royce showrooms and upmarket shopping malls studded with Gucci, Lacoste and Prada stores line the streets of downtown Baku.
  • (8) Some retailers such as Asos and Sports Direct have had strong sales figures, proving that those who keep up with the latest shopping habits – such as online, click and collect and showrooming – will be well placed to ride out the tough economic climate.
  • (9) Main Street, hollowed out by web-based competition, is increasingly viewed as a tool to be used by consumers “ showrooming” – browsing – before buying online for less.
  • (10) Photograph: Ambra Vernuccio Hackney Showroom is a DIY space that hosts cabaret, live art, variety, circus and performances: from Lasana Shabazz, Plains Plough, and the Disco Loco festival to weird bits of drag.
  • (11) Fiat made a valiant attempt to export cars to China, but the excursion stalled once Beijing's newly rich spotted the showrooms for Audi, BMW and Mercedes.
  • (12) "The introduction of a vehicle scrappage scheme will boost the new car market, encourage consumers to get back into car showrooms, and reduce the likelihood of employee downsizing in this sector," said Paul Williams, chairman of the Retail Motor Industry Federation.
  • (13) Its showrooms in Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Berkshire benefit from a customer base that is predominantly employed in the private sector and close to a Thames Valley corridor that hosts an array of multinationals.
  • (14) At the other end of the strip, green entrepreneurs displayed sustainable business ideas at two brightly illuminated showrooms.
  • (15) Around the city’s West Lake, a leafy tourist district where many of the G20’s leaders will sleep, red Chinese lanterns and Christmas lights hang from plane trees outside Ferrari and Aston Martin showrooms.
  • (16) On display in the showroom this week was a model priced at around $170,000 (£107,390).
  • (17) And this is one of Seat's biggest showrooms in Madrid.
  • (18) Shopping will change beyond recognition, with “ hyper showrooming ” the watchword – shops will become “emotional destinations”, products hidden away behind digital screens, and heavily tailored to individual taste, guided by algorithms and ultimately our own prior behaviour.
  • (19) But they like the idea of getting something newer and hipper, so they have come to a Mini showroom.
  • (20) Now they are smattered with artists' showrooms and craft workshops.

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