Chamber vs Withdraught - What's the difference?
chamber | withdraught |
A room, especially one used primarily for sleeping; bedroom, sleeping room.
* 1845, ,
An enclosed space.
(firearms) The portion of the weapon that holds the ammunition round immediately prior to (and during initiation of) its discharge; each of the cylindrical compartments of a revolver that can hold a bullet
One of the legislative bodies in a government where multiple such bodies exist, or a single such body in comparison to others.
A law office in a building housing several such offices, typically the office of a barrister in the United Kingdom or in the imagination of an African scammer.
(dated, in the plural) Apartments in a lodging house.
* Thackeray
(obsolete) A chamber pot.
(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.
To enclose in a room.
To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.
* 1893 , Publications of the Scottish History Society (volume 14, page 64)
To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.
To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.
In martial arts, to prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.
(obsolete) To be lascivious.
(label) Withdrawal.
(label) A private chamber, a room or other area one can withdraw to.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XIX:
*:the Quene wolde nat suffir her wounded knyghtes to be fro her, but that they were layde in wythdraughtes by hur chambir, uppon beddis and paylattes, that she myght herselff se unto them that they wanted nothynge.
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*:Then when season was, they went unto their chambers, but in no wise the queen would not suffer the wounded knights to be from her, but that they were laid within draughts by her chamber, upon beds and pillows, that she herself might see to them, that they wanted nothing.
(label) A privy or sewer.
In obsolete terms the difference between chamber and withdraught
is that chamber is to be lascivious while withdraught is a privy or sewer.As nouns the difference between chamber and withdraught
is that chamber is a room, especially one used primarily for sleeping; bedroom, sleeping room while withdraught is withdrawal.As a verb chamber
is to enclose in a room.chamber
English
(wikipedia chamber)Alternative forms
* chambre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
- Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
- As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
- the chamber''' of a canal lock; the '''chamber''' of a furnace; the '''chamber of the eye
- A ''test chamber'' is typically a closable case where devices under test are placed.
- Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
- The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber .
- a bachelor's life in chambers
Derived terms
* torture chamberVerb
(en verb)- She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
- I chambered with Alexander Preston.
- The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
- The rifle was originally chambered for 9MM, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
- Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.