Suite vs Chamber - What's the difference?
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A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador.
A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or classed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals.
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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 A group of connected rooms, usually separable from other rooms by means of access.
(music) A musical form, popular before the time of the sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude.
(music) An excerpt of instrumental music from a larger work that contains other elements besides the music; for example, the Nutcracker Suite'' is the music (but not the dancing) from the ballet ''The Nutcracker'', and the ''Carmen Suite'' is the instrumental music (but not the singing and dancing) from the opera ''Carmen .
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.
As nouns the difference between suite and chamber
is that suite is (l) (group of connected rooms) while chamber is the luxembourgish parliament (officially known by the french name of “chambre des ”).suite
English
Noun
(en noun)- Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
Anagrams
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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.
