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        "ˈʧeɪmbər"
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      "etymologies": [
        "From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek καμάρα (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera."
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          "name": "Noun",
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              "mean": "A room or set of rooms, particularly:",
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                "The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.\n1845 February,  — Quarles ,  “The Raven”, in  The American Review‎, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, , →OCLC, page 143:Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, /  As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.",
                "A bedroom.",
                "The private office of a judge.",
                "The room used for deliberation by a legislature.",
                "(UK) A single law office in a building housing several.",
                "(dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.\n1848 November – 1850 December,  William Makepeace Thackeray,  “Which Had Very Nearly Been the Last of the Story”, in  The History of Pendennis. , volume II, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1850, →OCLC, page 120:A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition."
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              "mean": "(obsolete) Ellipsis of chamber pot: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.\n1946,  Elizabeth Metzger Howard,  Before the Sun Goes Down, page 31:\"Jesus Christ! Was my folks refined. My mam she wouldn't think-a lettin' us young'uns call a pee pot a pee pot. A chamber's what she called it... And by God! Us young'uns had ter call the pee pot a chamber or git our God damn necks wrang.\""
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              "mean": "(figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.\nThe resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber."
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              "mean": "Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.\nA canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber"
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              "mean": "(biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal."
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              "mean": "(firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.\nDianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver."
            },
            {
              "mean": "(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades."
            },
            {
              "mean": "One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart."
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              "mean": "To enclose in a room.\nShe had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out."
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              "mean": "To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.\n1893,  Publications of the Scottish History Society, volume 14, page 64:I chambered with Alexander Preston."
            },
            {
              "mean": "To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.\nThe hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge."
            },
            {
              "mean": "To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.\nThe rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber."
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              "mean": "(martial arts) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.\nBob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first."
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              "mean": "(obsolete) To be lascivious.\n(The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)"
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