[syn: board, room]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Room \Room\ (r[=oo]m), n. [OE. roum, rum, space, AS. r[=u]m;
akin to OS., OFries. & Icel. r[=u]m, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG.
r[=u]m, Sw. & Dan. rum, Goth. r[=u]ms, and to AS. r[=u]m,
adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. r[=u]mr, Goth. r[=u]ms; and
prob. to L. rus country (cf. Rural), Zend rava[.n]h wide,
free, open, ravan a plain.]
1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or
devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or
small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes
up too much room.
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Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet
there is room. --Luke xiv.
22.
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There was no room for them in the inn. --Luke ii. 7.
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2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy;
a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
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If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will
give it for the best room in a playhouse.
--Overbury.
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When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit
not down in the highest room. --Luke xiv. 8.
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3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set
apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
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I found the prince in the next room. --Shak.
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4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station;
also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied
by, another, and vacated. [Obs.]
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When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in
the room of his father Herod. --Matt. ii.
22.
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Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
--Tyndale.
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Let Bianca take her sister's room. --Shak.
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5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to
act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
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There was no prince in the empire who had room for
such an alliance. --Addison.
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Room and space (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side
of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space
being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and
room the width of a rib.
To give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space
unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.
To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove
obstructions; to give room.
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Make room, and let him stand before our face.
--Shak.
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Syn: Space; compass; scope; latitude.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Room \Room\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Roomed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Rooming.]
To occupy a room or rooms; to lodge; as, they arranged to
room together.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Room \Room\, a. [AS. r[=u]m.]
Spacious; roomy. [Obs.]
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No roomer harbour in the place. --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
room
n 1: an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and
ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice
view"
2: space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly
enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way, elbow
room]
3: opportunity for; "room for improvement"
4: the people who are present in a room; "the whole room was
cheering"
v 1: live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old
boarding house" [syn: board, room]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
140 Moby Thesaurus words for "room":
a leg up, abide, accommodation, accommodations, air space,
allowance, ample scope, apartment, area, bed, berth, billet,
blank check, board, bunk, burden, caesura, capacity, carte blanche,
cell, chamber, chambers, chance, clear stage, clearance, cohabit,
compartment, content, cordage, cubicle, diggings, digs,
discontinuity, distance between, domicile, domiciliate, doss down,
double space, dwell, dwelling, elbowroom, em space, en space,
extent, fair field, fair game, field, flat, free course, free hand,
free play, free scope, freeboard, full scope, full swing,
hair space, half space, hang out, harbor, headroom, hiatus, house,
housing, hut, inhabit, interim, intermediate space, interruption,
interspace, interstice, interval, jump, lacuna, latitude, leap,
leeway, liberty, license, limit, live, living quarters, lodge,
lodging, lodgings, lodgment, long rope, maneuvering space, margin,
measure, nest, no holds barred, occasion, occupy, office,
open space, opening, opportunism, opportunity, perch, place, play,
poundage, put up, quantity, quarter, quarters, range, rein, remain,
rental, reside, room to spare, rooms, roost, rope, scope, sea room,
shelter, single space, sleeping place, space, space between,
spare room, squat, stable, stay, stepping-stone, stowage, suite,
sway, swing, tenant, tenement, time, time interval, tolerance,
tonnage, volume, way, wide berth
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
channel
chat room
room
(Or "chat room", "room", depending on the system in
question) The basic unit of group discussion in chat systems
like IRC. Once one joins a channel, everything one types is
read by others on that channel. Channels can either be named
with numbers or with strings that begin with a "#" sign and
can have topic descriptions (which are generally irrelevant to
the actual subject of discussion).
Some notable channels are "#initgame", "#hottub" and
"#report". At times of international crisis, "#report" has
hundreds of members, some of whom take turns listening to
various news services and typing in summaries of the news, or
in some cases, giving first-hand accounts of the action
(e.g. Scud missile attacks in Tel Aviv during the Gulf War in
1991).
[Jargon File]
(1998-01-25)