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room
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[ noun ] an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling
Examples "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)Only_too often , however , you have the feeling that you are sitting in a room with some of the instruments lined_up on one wall to your left and others facing them on the wall to your right . They are definitely in the same room with you , but your head starts to swing as though you were sitting on the very edge of a tennis_court watching a spirited volley . (Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)Follow this by crossing from one corner of the room to the other on_all_fours , kicking as high as possible . (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)Makes drawings and plans of rooms showing placement of furniture , floor_coverings , wall decorations , and determines color_schemes . (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Emerson , in his lecture , refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before , whether dreaming or waking , a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room , and heard precisely this dialogue , at some former hour , they know not when '' . Related terms area kitchen court bedroom living_room anteroom barroom dressing_room hall dining_room study bathroom classroom ballroom test_room library toilet locker_room manor_hall shower_room chamber reception_room conference_room compartment showroom cardroom sickroom reading_room storeroom steam_bath greenroom television_room squadroom sickbay smoking_room door squadroom durbar cell sun_parlor engineering checkroom floor furnace_room belfry back_room cubiculum gallery gallery clean_room squad_room guardroom cloakroom billiard_room hospital_room closet lawcourt clubroom boardroom war_room walk-in lounge rathole presence_chamber poolroom control_room recreation_room rotunda cutting_room cubby scullery sewing_room surgery darkroom shipping_room den cell torture_chamber anechoic_chamber vestry workroom squad_room building wall floor ceiling room_light |
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[ noun ] space for movement
Synonyms Examples "room to pass" "make way for": "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" Used in print (Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)Areas should be large enough to include the attractions , have ample space for the use of facilities needed , and have room around the edges to protect the values of the area from encroachment by private developments . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)These areas by_virtue_of their abrupt density of pattern , stated the literal surface with such new and superior force that the resulting contrast drove the simulated printing into a depth from which it could be rescued - and set to shuttling again - only by conventional perspective ; that_is , by being placed in such relation to the forms depicted within the illusion that these forms left no room for the typography except near the surface . (Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)From his room he could look out in springtime and see the couples hand_in_hand walking slowly , deliciously , across the campus , and he could smell the sweet vernal winds . (Francis Pollini, Night....)Plenty of room there now . (Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning_House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides , till they could get a house and a farm of their own ) . Related terms position living_space parking breathing_room headroom standing_room houseroom sea_room seating |
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[ noun ] opportunity for
Examples "room for improvement" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)If so , it might be worth_while to assign a future jazz show to a different department - one with enough confidence in the musical material to cut_down on the number of performers and give them a_little room to display their talents . (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)Even here there is room for some variation , for metal surfaces vary in smoothness , absorptive capacity , and chemical reactivity . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)And so the authors conclude : `` The conduct of the patient in his every-day life and in his work , even more_than the foregoing facts [ mentioned above under 1 ] , leave positively no room for doubt that the sense_of_touch , in the ordinary sense of the word , was unaffected ; or , to put the same thing in physiological terms , that the performance capacity of the tactual apparatus , from the periphery up to the tactual centers in the brain , - that_is , from one end to the other - was unimpaired '' . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (housing,food) live and take one's meals at or in
Synonyms Examples "she rooms in an old boarding house" Used in print ("Sports"...)The sluggers get_along so well in_fact , that with their families at_home for the summer ( Mantle 's in Dallas , Maris 's in Kansas_City ) , they are rooming together . Related terms |
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 16382
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[ noun ] the people who are present in a room
Examples "the whole room was cheering" Related terms |
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