different between chamber vs loculus
chamber
English
Alternative forms
- chambre (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English chambre, borrowed from Old French chambre, from Latin camera, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kamára, “vaulted chamber”). Doublet of camera.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?t?e?mb?(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?t?e?mb?/
- Rhymes: -e?mb?(?)
- Hyphenation: cham?ber
Noun
chamber (plural chambers)
- A room or set of rooms, particularly:
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- A bedroom.
- The private office of a judge.
- The room used for deliberation by a legislature.
- (Britain) A single law office in a building housing several.
- (dated, usually in the plural) Rooms in a lodging house.
- ...a bachelor's life in chambers...
- The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.
- A chamberpot.
- (figuratively) The legislature or division of the legislature itself.
- The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
- Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.
- A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
- (biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.
- (firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
- (firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.
- (historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
- One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.
- (obsolete) Ellipsis of chamber pot: a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.
Synonyms
- (chamber pot): See Thesaurus:chamber pot
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
chamber (third-person singular simple present chambers, present participle chambering, simple past and past participle chambered)
- To enclose in a room.
- She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
- To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
- 1893, Publications of the Scottish History Society (volume 14, page 64)
- I chambered with Alexander Preston.
- 1893, Publications of the Scottish History Society (volume 14, page 64)
- To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
- The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
- To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
- The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
- In 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.
- Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
- (obsolete) To be lascivious.
Synonyms
- (to be lascivious): blissom, lust; see also Thesaurus:harlotize
Anagrams
- becharm, chambre, chambré
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loculus
English
Etymology
Latin loculus
Noun
loculus (plural loculi)
- A little place or space; a cell; a chamberlet.
- In ancient catacombs and tombs of some types, a small separate chamber or recess cut into the rock, for the reception of a body or urn.
- (zoology) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
- (botany) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
Derived terms
- locular
References
- loculus in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- loculus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- colulus, ullucos
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive form of Latin locus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?lo.ku.lus/, [????k????s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?lo.ku.lus/, [?l??kulus]
Noun
loculus m (genitive locul?); second declension
- A small place
- coffin
- manger, stall
- purse, pocket
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
- locul?mentum
- locul?tus
Related terms
- locellus
Descendants
- Portuguese: lóculo
References
- loculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- loculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- loculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- loculus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- loculus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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