Chambers

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A set of rooms in a building used as an office or a residential apartment.

   “Thanks, my lord, for your veniſon, for finer or fatter / Never rang'd in a foreſt, or ſmoak'd in a platter; / […] / I had thoughts, in my chambers, to place it in view, / To be ſhevvn to my friends as a piece of virtu; […]”

2. isim Chiefly in in chambers: a judge's private office which is used for hearings that do not need to be held in open court.
3. isim Originally, a set of rooms at an Inn of Court used by one or more barristers as an office and residence; now, the office of one or more barristers in any building.

   “[B]e you mannerly to her, becauſe you are to pretend only to be her Squire, to arm her to her Lavvyers Chambers; but I vvill be impudent and baudy, for ſhe muſt love and marry me.”

4. isim Euphemistic form of chamber pot (“a container used for defecation and urination”); also, synonym of potty (“a small (chiefly plastic) pot used by children for defecation and urination when toilet-training”).

   “[W]heres the chamber gone Ive a holy horror of its breaking under me after that old commode […]”

5. isim In full king's chambers: parts of the sea next to the coast of England and Wales delimited by imaginary lines connecting headlands, over which the Crown asserted exclusive jurisdiction; these have now been superseded by the concept of the territorial sea.

   “[W]e cannot be ſecure, vvhile ſuch huge Fleets of Men of VVar, both Spaniſh, French, Dutch, and Dunkirkeers, ſome of them laden vvith Ammunition, Men, Arms, and Armies, do daily ſail on our Seas, and confront the Kings Chambers; […]”

6. isim A midmorning break at Eton College.

   “Drury presented himself at Chambers before 11 o'clock school one day with a conspicuous black eye.”

7. isim plural of chamber
8. fiil third-person singular simple present indicative of chamber
9. özel isim A surname.
10. özel isim A township in Temagami municipality, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
11. özel isim An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
12. özel isim A township and village therein, in Holt County, Nebraska.
13. özel isim An unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia.
14. özel isim Ellipsis of Chambers County.