Air chamber
() A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant. |
Air chamber
() A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine. |
Chamber
(n.) A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping |
Chamber
(n.) Apartments in a lodging house. |
Chamber
(n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets |
Chamber
(n.) A legislative or judicial body |
Chamber
(n.) A compartment or cell |
Chamber
(n.) A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business |
Chamber
(n.) A chamber pot. |
Chamber
(n.) That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore |
Chamber
(n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder. |
Chamber
(n.) A short piece of ordnance or cannon, which stood on its breech, without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for rejoicings and theatrical cannonades. |
Chamber
(v. i.) To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers. |
Chamber
(v. i.) To be lascivious. |
Chamber
(v. t.) To shut up, as in a chamber. |
Chamber
(v. t.) To furnish with a chamber |
Combustion
(n.) The state of burning. |
Combustion
(n.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. |
Combustion
(n.) Violent agitation |
Crown side
() See Crown office. |
Sea wall
() A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
Side
(n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface |
Side
(n.) Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest |
Side
(n.) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane |
Side
(n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body |
Side
(n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge. |
Side
(n.) The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe |
Side
(n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another. |
Side
(n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other |
Side
(a.) Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides |
Side
(a.) Hence, indirect |
Side
(n.) Long |
Side
(v. i.) To lean on one side. |
Side
(v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party |
Side
(v. t.) To be or stand at the side of |
Side
(v. t.) To suit |
Side
(v. t.) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides. |
Side
(v. t.) To furnish with a siding |
Side-taking
(n.) A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. |
Side-wheel
(a.) Having a paddle wheel on each side |
Star-chamber
(n.) An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses |
Wall
(n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope |
Wall
(n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. |
Wall
(n.) A defense |
Wall
(n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel |
Wall
(n.) The side of a level or drift. |
Wall
(n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. |
Wall
(v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. |
Wall
(v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls |
Wall
(v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
burning
combustion | the act of burning something, the burning of leaves was prohibited by a town ordinance |
side-glance
side-look | a glance sideways, she shot him an impatient side-glance |
blue wall of silence
blue wall
wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
wall creeper
tichodrome
Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
side-blotched lizard
sand lizard Uta stansburiana | one of the most abundant lizards in the arid western United States |
| anechoic chamber | a chamber having very little reverberation |
| Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
| bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bedroom
sleeping room
sleeping accommodation
chamber bedchamber | a room used primarily for sleeping |
boardroom
council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
| boron chamber | an ionization chamber lined with boron or filled with boron trifluoride gas for counting low velocity neutrons |
bracket
wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
| bubble chamber | an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles |
burial chamber
sepulcher
sepulchre
sepulture | a chamber that is used as a grave |
| cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
| chamber | a natural or artificial enclosed space |
| chamber | a room where a judge transacts business |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
cloud chamber
Wilson cloud chamber | apparatus that detects the path of high-energy particles passing through a supersaturated vapor, each particle ionizes molecules along its path and small droplets condense on them to produce a visible track |
crematory
crematorium
cremation chamber | a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes |
| cylinder piston chamber | a chamber within which piston moves |
dry wall
dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
| echo chamber | an enclosed space for producing reverberation of a sound |
firing chamber
gun chamber | chamber that is the part of a gun that receives the charge |
gable
gable end
gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
gas chamber
death chamber | instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced, used to kill people or animals |
hanging
wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
| hyperbaric chamber | a large chamber in which the oxygen pressure is above normal for the atmosphere, used in treating breathing disorders or carbon monoxide poisoning |
ionization chamber
ionization tube | a measuring instrument that measures the amount of ionizing radiation |
| lock lock chamber | enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level, used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it |
mural
wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
| party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
pistol
handgun
side arm
shooting iron | a firearm that is held and fired with one hand |
pommel horse
side horse | a gymnastic horse with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright handles (pommels) near the center, held upright by two steel supports, one at each end |
| presence chamber | room in which a monarch or other great person receives guests, assemblies, etc. |
proscenium
proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart
bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
resonator cavity resonator
resonating chamber | a hollow chamber whose dimensions allow the resonant oscillation of electromagnetic or acoustic waves |
| retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
| side | an extended outer surface of an object, he turned the box over to examine the bottom side, they painted all four sides of the house |
| side chapel | a small chapel off the side aisle of a church |
side door
side entrance | an exterior door at one side of a building |
| side pocket | a pocket on the side of a billiard table |
| side road | a minor road branching off of a main road |
| side street | a street intersecting a main street and terminating there |
| side-wheeler | a paddle steamer having a paddle wheel on each side |
| side yard | the grounds at either side of a house |
snare drum
snare side drum | a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head |
spark chamber
spark counter | an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles |
| stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |