What's the difference between room and storeroom?

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.

Storeroom


Definition:

  • (n.) Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perhaps he had thousands of works by forgotten artists he couldn't sell languishing in storerooms.
  • (2) Sitting in the storeroom in the Treasury that has now been transformed into his office, adorned with his choice of striking contemporary art, Myners insists that the £16.9m pension pot initially handed to former RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin had been "cooked up" before he got involved in the brutal negotiations that fateful October weekend.
  • (3) The painting shows an old, weary man slumped in contemplation in his armchair and has spent more time in the National Gallery's storeroom than on display because it is attributed to a follower of Rembrandt rather than the artist himself.
  • (4) It’s a standing joke with me and my friends who are also wheelchair users when we go to a restaurant or bar and see that the disabled toilet isn’t usable because it is being used as a storeroom.
  • (5) In the meantime I was on a trolley, in an A&E cubicle that doubled as a storeroom, curled up in pain,” the MP recalled.
  • (6) However on Sunday the company involved denied any wrongdoing, claiming all that had been found was a sticky pad used to catch rats in a storeroom and this had snowballed into “exaggerated” reports that the pills contained rat poison.
  • (7) Shouting warnings in English, Flemish, French and German, he and his wife joined tourists who fled to an underground storeroom.
  • (8) Not to people with an interest in reading the book, but to librarians who would put it on a shelf and then, a few years later, probably bury it in a storeroom.
  • (9) People were filing into a storeroom lined floor to ceiling with donated tins, bread and nappies.
  • (10) When products are retained in the can, maintain storeroom at a low temperature above freezing.
  • (11) A nun who survived and was rescued by local residents said she hid inside a fridge in a storeroom after hearing a Yemeni guard shouting “run, run”.
  • (12) As a washer-dryer was wheeled out of the storeroom for a buyer, the crowd of consumers chanted, "Sí se puede!"
  • (13) The plot involved navy servicemen who hid in a storeroom that is usually left locked at the end of a day, with the aim of taking charge of the warship during the night, officials told the Guardian.
  • (14) It was like a storeroom, with scraps of metal lying all over the place."
  • (15) Research was carried out on the distribution of moulds on cereals in vegetation and in storerooms in the period from 1974 to 1981 and on ochratoxin (OA) in stored maize and wheat as well as residues of OA in the organs of swine in the nephropathic and non-nephropathic areas in the SR of Croatia, Yugoslavia.
  • (16) As nonlabor costs in health care increase disproportionately, changes in storeroom operations will become an important cost containment tool.
  • (17) Some of the dead have been kept in inflatable tents and in a refrigerated storeroom at a disused farmers' market in Paris.
  • (18) Many events are still threatening and undermining the improvement in supply chain risk; if the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa necessitates a tightening of international borders, the world will shrink, leaving storerooms empty and workers idle.
  • (19) The six have a storeroom full of rations and will eat the same meals as astronauts on the International Space Station, but these supplies must last the whole stay.
  • (20) Hossein Rabieh Salem, the 48-year-old owner, had been sleeping for several nights with his family of 18, above the storeroom and the live weapon.

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