room : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a hotel room that shares a wall with another hotel room
  

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• a room in which persons assemble, especially for dancing.

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• an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.

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• noun a child's room for a baby
  nursery.
  

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• noun a room located in the rear of an establishment; usually accessible only to privileged groups
  

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• noun evergreen perennial with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant
  aspidistra; cast-iron plant; Aspidistra elatio.
  

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• noun a furnished sitting room with sleeping accommodations (and some plumbing)
  bedsitter; bedsit.
  

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• noun a room in which billiards is played
  billiard parlor; billiard hall; billiard saloon; billiard parlour.
  

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• noun sufficient room for easy breathing or movement
  breathing space.
  
  • moved to the country to find breathing room

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By"-room` noun

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1. A private room or apartment. "Stand in some by-room" Shak.

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• noun a site on the internet where a number of users can communicate in real time (typically one dedicated to a particular topic)
  chatroom.
  

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• noun a bedroom for a child
  

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• noun the editorial department of a newspaper that edits the local news
  city desk.
  

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• noun a room that is virtually free of dust or bacteria; used in laboratory work and in assembly or repair of precision equipment
  clean room.
  

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• in the University of Cambridge, Eng., a room into which the fellows withdraw after dinner, for wine, dessert, and conversation.

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• noun a sitting room (usually at school or university)
  

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• noun a room in which a conference can be held
  

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• a room for conference and prayer, and for the pastor's less formal addresses. U. S.

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• noun a hotel room that shares a wall with an adjoining room and is connected by a private door
  

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• noun a room housing control equipment (as in a recording studio)
  

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• a large room in a theater, opera house, etc., where the audience may promenade or converse during the intermissions; a foyer.

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• noun a room where films or tapes are edited (by cutting out unwanted parts)
  

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• a house or room in which madmen were confined. Obs. Shak.

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• noun a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
  morgue; mortuary.
  

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• noun a room used for dining
  dining room.
  

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• noun a room used for dining
  dining room.
  

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• noun someone employed to provide service in a dining room
  restaurant attendant.
  

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• noun furniture intended for use in a dining room
  

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• noun dining-room furniture consisting of a table on which meals can be served
  

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• noun a large sleeping room containing several beds
  dormitory; dorm room.
  

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• noun a large sleeping room containing several beds
  dormitory; dorm room.
  

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• a room draughtsmen to work in, and where plans are kept.

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• noun a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained
  drawing room.
  
• noun a private compartment on a sleeping car with three bunks and a toilet
  

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Draw"ing-room` noun

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1. A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.
2. The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room.

   He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay.

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• noun a passenger car for day travel; you pay extra fare for individual chairs
  chair car; palace car; parlor car; parlour car.
  

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• . See Palace car, under Car.

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• noun a room in which you can change clothes
  

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• an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet.

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• noun space for movement
  room; way.
  
  • room to pass
  • make way for
  • hardly enough elbow room to turn around

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• noun a room in a hospital or clinic staffed and equipped to provide emergency care to persons requiring immediate medical treatment
  ER.
  

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• noun a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located
  engineering.
  

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• noun a recreation room in a private house
  

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• noun a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
  living-room; living room; parlour; parlor; front room.
  

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• noun a room (usually in the basement of a building) that contains a furnace for heating the building
  

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• noun a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc)
  game room; playroom.
  

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• a room on the ground floor; a lower room. Tatler.

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• noun military quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship
  

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• noun a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business
  homeroom.
  

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• noun a room in a hospital for the care of patients
  

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• noun a bedroom (usually with bath) in a hotel
  

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• the lunation after the harvest moon.

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• a family sitting room. New Eng. & Prov. Eng.

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• noun a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building
  ladies' room.
  

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• noun a clean room free of all extraneous particles; used in fabricating microprocessors
  

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• noun classroom where lectures are given
  

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• noun a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
  living-room; living room; parlour; parlor; front room.
  

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• noun a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
  living-room; living room; parlour; parlor; front room.
  

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• the room most used by the family.

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• noun a room (as at an athletic facility or workplace) where you can change clothes and which contains lockers for the temporary storage of your clothing and personal possessions
  

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• adjective relating to or appropriate for a locker room
  
  • locker-room humor

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• a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.

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• noun a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored (especially furniture)
  

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• a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. U.S.

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• noun a public toilet for men
  men's.
  

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• noun a sitting room used during the daylight hours
  

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• noun a sleeping room in a motel
  

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• that room in a cathedral, castle, or other public building, which is used for keeping the records, charters, seals, deeds

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• noun a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
  operating theatre; operating theater; OR; surgery.
  
  • great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic

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• . (a) The court of the commanding officer, where charges against the men of the regiment are tried . (b) The office of the commanding officer, usually in the barracks, whence orders emanate. Farrow.

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• (Railroad), cars especially designed and furnished for the comfort of travelers.

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• . See Magazine, 2.

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• noun a woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building
  ladies' room.
  

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• the room in which a great personage receives company. Addison." Chambers of presence." Bacon.

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• noun a pump house at a spa where medicinal waters are pumped and where patrons gather
  

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• a place or room at a mineral spring where the waters are drawn and drunk. Eng.

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• noun a room set aside for reading
  

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• a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.

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• noun a room equipped for informal entertaining
  rec room.
  

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• noun a room for receiving and entertaining visitors (as in a private house or hotel)
  

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• noun a hospital room for the care of patients immediately after surgery
  

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• noun a room equipped for informal entertaining
  rec room.
  

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• a room where official robes are put on, as by judges, etc.

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• noun the entrance (the space in a wall) through which you enter or leave a room or building; the space that a door can close
  threshold; doorway; door.
  
  • he stuck his head in the doorway

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• (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.

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• noun a hotel clerk who is responsible for room assignments to guests
  

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• noun a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings
  interior decorator; house decorator; designer; interior designer; decorator.
  

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• noun light that provides general illumination for a room
  

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• noun the rate charged daily for a hotel room
  

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• noun the normal temperature of room in which people live
  

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• noun a house where rooms are rented
  lodging house.
  

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• noun a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc)
  game room; playroom.
  

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• (Naut.), a room in a vessel where sails are stowed when not in use.

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• noun space for maneuver at sea
  

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Sea" room`

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1. (Naut.) Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground. Totten.

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• noun an area that includes places where several people can sit
  seating; seating area; seats.
  
  • there is seating for 40 students in this classroom

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• noun a room set aside for sewing
  

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• noun a room where goods are packaged and shipped
  

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• noun a room with several showers
  

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• a room in which a person lies sick, or to which he is confined by sickness. These terms, sick bed, sick berth, etc., are also written both hyphened and solid.

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• noun a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
  living-room; living room; parlour; parlor; front room.
  

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• an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.

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• noun a room used primarily for sleeping
  sleeping accommodation; chamber; bedchamber; bedroom.
  

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• noun room in a hotel or club set apart for smokers
  

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• noun a room in a police station where members of the force assemble for roll call and duty assignments
  
• noun a room in a barracks where soldiers are billeted
  

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• noun room for passengers or spectators to stand
  
  • there was standing room for thousands more people

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• noun a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe; `vapour bath' is a British term
  vapor bath; vapour bath; steam bath.
  

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• (Steam Boilers), the space in the boiler above the water level, and in the dome, which contains steam.

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• noun a pantry or storeroom connected with the kitchen (especially in a large house) for preparing tea and beverages and for storing liquors and preserves and tea etc
  stillroom.
  

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• noun storeroom for storing goods and supplies used in a business
  stockroom.
  

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• noun a room in which things are stored
  storeroom; stowage.
  

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• noun a Finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water over heated rocks
  sauna.
  

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• . (a) A room for sweating persons. (b) (Dairying) A room for sweating cheese and carrying off the superfluous juices.

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• noun a room set aside for viewing television
  television room.
  

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• noun a room in which tests are conducted
  test room.
  

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• noun a room in which tests are conducted
  test room.
  

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• . (Shipbuilding) Same as Room and space. See under Room.

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Tir"ing-room` noun

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1. The room or place where players dress for the stage.

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• to withdraw; to leave or provide space unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.

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• to open a space, way, or passage; to remove obstructions; to give room.

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• noun a room set aside for viewing television
  television room.
  

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• noun a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait
  lounge; waiting area.
  

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• noun a room where strategic decisions are made (especially for military or political campaigns)
  

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• noun a toilet that is available to the public
  comfort station; public convenience; restroom; convenience; public toilet; public lavatory; toilet facility.
  

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• . (a) A room where a well or spring is situated; especially, one built over a mineral spring. (b) (Naut.) A depression in the bottom of a boat, into which water may run, and whence it is thrown out with a scoop.

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• noun a room that is virtually free of dust or bacteria; used in laboratory work and in assembly or repair of precision equipment
  clean room.
  

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• noun flexibility of interpretation or of options
  
  • the request left some wiggle room for future restructuring

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• noun a formal room where visitors can be received and entertained
  drawing room.
  

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With*draw"ing-room` noun

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1. A room for retirement from another room, as from a dining room; a drawing-room.

   A door in the middle leading to a parlor and withdrawing-room. Sir W. Scott.

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