different between situation vs room

English

Alternative forms

• scituation (hyper?correct, obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English situacioun, situacion, from Middle French situation, from Medieval Latin situatio (“position, situation”), from situare (“to locate, place”), from Latin situs (“a site”). Equivalent to situate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t-yo?o-?'sh?n, s?ch-o?o-?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /s?tju??e???n/, /s?t?u?(w)e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

situation (plural situations)

1. The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
2. The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     ...he being naturally an underground animal by birth and breeding, the situation of Badger's house exactly suited him and made him feel at home; while the Rat, who slept every night in a bedroom the windows of which opened on a breezy river, naturally felt the atmosphere still and oppressive.

3. The place in which something is situated; a location.
   • 1833, Thomas Hibbert and Robert Buist, The American Flower Garden Directory, page 142:

     [Hibíscus] speciòsus is the most splendid, and deserves a situation in every garden.

4. Position or status with regard to conditions and circumstances.
5. (Britain) A position of employment; a post.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, page 78:

     When he was nineteen, he suddenly left the 'Co-op' office, and got a situation in Nottingham.

   • 1946, Vaughn Horton, Denver Darling, Milt Gabler, Choo Choo Ch'Boogie:

     You take a morning paper from the top of the stack

     And read the situations from the front to the back

     The only job that's open need a man with a knack

     So put it right back in the rack Jack.

6. A difficult or unpleasant set of circumstances; a problem.

   Boss, we've got a situation here...

Synonyms

• (combination of circumstances): condition, set up; see also Thesaurus:state

Related terms

• site
• situate
• situated
• situationism

Translations

See also

• situation comedy, sitcom

References

• Source for the definitions:
  • Dictionary.com. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. [1] (accessed: March 10, 2007).
• situation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• situation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• situation at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• titanious

French

Etymology

situer +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.t?a.sj??/

Noun

situation f (plural situations)

1. situation (all meanings)

Derived terms

• mise en situation
• situation intéressante

Descendants

• ? Romanian: situa?ie

Further reading

• “situation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

situation (plural situationes)

1. situation, state of affairs

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?tva??u?n/, /s?t?a??u?n/

Noun

situation c

1. a situation

Declension

Synonyms

• läge

Related terms

• nödsituation
• situationskomik

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?u?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?um/
• (UK, New England, Tidewater) IPA^(key): /??m/
• Rhymes: -u?m, -?m
• Homophone: rheum

Etymology 1

From Middle English roum, from Old English r?m (“room, space”), from Proto-Germanic *r?m? (“room”), from Proto-Indo-European *row?- (“free space”). Cognate with Low German Ruum, Dutch ruimte (“space”) and Dutch ruim (“cargo load”), German Raum (“space, interior space”), Danish rum (“space, locality”), Norwegian rom (“space”), Swedish rum (“space, location”), and also with Latin r?s (“country, field, farm”) through Indo-European. More at rural.

It is ostensibly an exception to the Great Vowel Shift, which otherwise would have produced the pronunciation /?a?m/, but /a?/ does not occur before noncoronal consonants in Modern English.

Noun

room (countable and uncountable, plural rooms)

1. (now rare) Opportunity or scope (to do something). [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts I:

     Thou lorde whiche knowest the hertes of all men, shewe whether thou hast chosen of these two, that the one maye take the roume of this ministracion, and apostleshippe from the which Judas by transgression fell, that he myght goo to his awne place.

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa:

     Nor shalt thou give me room to doubt whether it be necessity or love, that inspires this condescending impulse.

2. (uncountable) Space for something, or to carry out an activity. [from 10th c.]
   • 2010, Jonathan Franklin, The Guardian, 27 Aug 2010:

     He explains they have enough room to stand and lie down, points out the "little cup to brush our teeth", and the place where they pray.

3. (archaic) A particular portion of space. [from 11th c.]
   • 1614, Thomas Overbury, Characters

     If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse.

   • When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room.

4. (uncountable, figuratively) Sufficient space for or to do something. [from 15th c.]
   • 2010, Roger Bootle, The Telegraph, 12 Sep 2010:

     There are major disagreements within the Coalition and politicians always want to retain room for manoeuvre.

5. (nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. [from 15th c.]
6. (obsolete) Place; stead.
7. (countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. [from 15th c.]
   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

     Miss Bingley made no answer, and soon afterwards she got up and walked about the room.
8. (countable, with possessive pronoun) (One's) bedroom.
9. (in the plural) A set of rooms inhabited by someone; one's lodgings. [from 17th c.]
10. (usually in the singular, metonymically) The people in a room. [from 17th c.]

    He was good at reading rooms.

    It was fun to watch her work the room.

11. (mining) An area for working in a coal mine. [from 17th c.]
12. (caving) A portion of a cave that is wider than a passage. [from 17th c.]
13. (Internet, countable) An IRC or chat room. [from 20th c.]

14. Place or position in society; office; rank; post, sometimes when vacated by its former occupant.

    • When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod.

    • 1848, Henry Walter (editor), William Tyndale (original author), Doctrinal Treatises and Introductions to Different Portions of the Holy Scriptures

      Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
15. A quantity of furniture sufficient to furnish one room.
    • 1985, August Wilson, Fences

      “I understand you need some furniture and can’t get no credit.” I liked to fell over. He say, “I’ll give you all the credit you want, but you got to pay the interest on it.” I told him, “Give me three rooms worth and charge whatever you want.”

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:room.

Synonyms

• (space): elbow room, legroom, space
• (part of a building): chamber, quarters
• (part of a cave): chamber
• rm
• See also Thesaurus:room

Hyponyms

Meronyms

• walls
• windows
• doors
• furniture
• wall sockets
• switches
• light fixtures
• appliances

Holonyms

• house
• building
• structure
• apartment
• home
• flat
• hotel
• hospital

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (r?mu)
• ? Kikuyu: rumu

Translations

Verb

room (third-person singular simple present rooms, present participle rooming, simple past and past participle roomed)

1. (intransitive) To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

   Doctor Watson roomed with Sherlock Holmes at Baker Street.

2. (transitive) To assign to a room; to allocate a room to.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English roum, rom, rum, from Old English r?m (“roomy, spacious, ample, extensive, large, open, unencumbered, unoccupied, temporal, long, extended, great, liberal, unrestricted, unfettered, clear, loose, free from conditions, free from occupation, not restrained within due limits, lax, far-reaching, abundant, noble, august”), from Proto-Germanic *r?maz (“roomy, spacious”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewh?- (“free space”). Cognate with Scots roum (“spacious, roomy”), Dutch ruim (“roomy, spacious, wide”), Danish rum (“wide, spacious”), German raum (“wide”), Icelandic rúmur (“spacious”).

Adjective

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Wide; spacious; roomy.

Etymology 3

From Middle English rome, from Old English r?me (“widely, spaciously, roomily, far and wide, so as to extend over a wide space, liberally, extensively, amply, abundantly, in a high degree, without restriction or encumbrance, without the pressure of care, light-heartedly, without obstruction, plainly, clearly, in detail”). Cognate with Dutch ruim (“amply”, adverb).

Adverb

room (comparative more room, superlative most room)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Far; at a distance; wide in space or extent.
2. (nautical) Off from the wind.

Etymology 4

Noun

room (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of roum (“deep blue dye”)

Further reading

• room on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• room at OneLook Dictionary Search
• room in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Moor, Moro, Romo, moor

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch room, from Middle Dutch rôme, from Old Dutch *r?m, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r???m/

Noun

room (uncountable)

1. cream

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch rôme, from Old Dutch *r?m, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?m/
• Hyphenation: room
• Rhymes: -o?m

Noun

room m (uncountable)

1. cream (of milk)

Derived terms

• afromen
• ontromen
• roomboter
• roomijs
• roomsaus
• slagroom

Descendants

• Afrikaans: room

Anagrams

• moor