chambered

[ cheym-berd ]

/ ˈtʃeɪm bərd /

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having compartmental chambers: a spiral chambered seashell.

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Origin of chambered

1350–1400; Middle English. See chamber, -ed³

OTHER WORDS FROM chambered

un·cham·bered, adjective

Words nearby chambered

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chamber

[ cheym-ber ]

/ ˈtʃeɪm bər /

noun

a room, usually private, in a house or apartment, especially a bedroom: She retired to her chamber.

a room in a palace or official residence.

the meeting hall of a legislative or other assembly.

chambers, Law.

a place where a judge hears matters not requiring action in open court.
the private office of a judge.
(in England) the quarters or rooms that lawyers use to consult with their clients, especially in the Inns of Court.

a legislative, judicial, or other like body: the upper or the lower chamber of a legislature.

an organization of individuals or companies for a specified purpose.

the place where the moneys due a government are received and kept; a treasury or chamberlain's office.

(in early New England) any bedroom above the ground floor, generally named for the ground-floor room beneath it.

a compartment or enclosed space; cavity: a chamber of the heart.

(in a canal or the like) the space between any two gates of a lock.

a receptacle for one or more cartridges in a firearm, or for a shell in a gun or other cannon.

(in a gun) the part of the barrel that receives the charge.

chamber pot.

adjective

of, relating to, or performing chamber music: chamber players.

verb (used with object)

to put or enclose in, or as in, a chamber.

to provide with a chamber.

Origin of chamber

1175–1225; Middle English chambre < Old French < Latin camera, variant of camara vaulted room, vault < Greek kamára

OTHER WORDS FROM chamber

un·der·cham·ber, noun

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Example sentences from the Web for chambered

In an insane display of oneupmanship, Crittenton allegedly produced his own gun and chambered a round.
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No scavenger shark, no carrion crab, ever chambered more grisly secrets in his digestive processes than this big charnel bird.
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It is also applied to the siphon perforating the septum of a chambered shell when it is placed near the centre of the plate.
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Mannlicher-Carcano cartridge could only be fired in a weapon that is chambered for that particular cartridge.
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This arm is chambered for the Colt .41 caliber short and long cartridges.
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In bad cases, a bar-shoe may be put on, so chambered that there shall be no pressure on the diseased part.
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British Dictionary definitions for chambered

chamber

/ (ˈtʃeɪmbə) /

noun

a meeting hall, esp one used for a legislative or judicial assembly

a reception room or audience room in an official residence, palace, etc

archaic, or poetic a room in a private house, esp a bedroom

a legislative, deliberative, judicial, or administrative assembly
any of the houses of a legislature

an enclosed space; compartment; cavitythe smallest chamber in the caves

the space between two gates of the locks of a canal, dry dock, etc

an enclosure for a cartridge in the cylinder of a revolver or for a shell in the breech of a cannon

obsolete a place where the money of a government, corporation, etc, was stored; treasury

short for chamber pot

NZ the freezing room in an abattoir

(modifier) of, relating to, or suitable for chamber musica chamber concert

verb

(tr) to put in or provide with a chamber

Word Origin for chamber

C13: from Old French chambre, from Late Latin camera room, Latin: vault, from Greek kamara

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chamber

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