Room

Definition: Room

Room

Noun

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".

3. Opportunity for; "room for improvement".

4. The people who are present in a room; "the whole room was cheering".

Verb

1. Live and take one's meals (in a certain place).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "room" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

ROOM

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Room

Occasion

Noun: {ant. } timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room; event (eventuality); suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness; Adjective: tempestivity.

Receptacle

Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.

Space

Noun: space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread.

Crosswords: Room

Afrikaan (cream), Dutch (cream, room).

What died in that room was not that woman (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

May I ask why a beautiful woman who could have any man in this room wants to be married (Eyes Wide Shut; writing credit: Arthur Schnitzler; Stanley Kubrick)

Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

Tell him if he doesn't sign the bill lowering the cable rates, we will release the video of him with the cheerleader in the Chicago motel room. (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

I heard Dick Rivers caught the two of you bowled up and going at it in the same room with poor Miss Ogletree dead as a doornail laid out on a gurney (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

Be sittin' up in my room (Sittin' Up In My Room (OST Version); performing artist: Brandy)

Yo back up now and give a brother room (Boom! Shake The Room; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)

'Cause I knew that I was going to be a legend in my living room (Legend In My Living Room; performing artist: Len)

I love it in your room at night (In Your Room; performing artist: The Bangles)

Into my house, into my room (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited)

Your smile lights up a room like a candle in the dark. (references; author: unknown)

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance. (references; author: unknown)

It doesn't matter what temperature the room is; it's always room temperature. (references; author: unknown)

A friend is someone that won't begin to talk behind your back when you leave the room. (references; author: unknown)

Panic Room (2002)

Ladies Room (1999)

Room for Rent (1974)

Dying Room Only (1973)

Gollocks! There's Plenty of Room in New Zealand (1973)

Boom! Shake The Room (performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince)

In Your Room (performing artist: The Bangles)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Room Plus, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Family Room Entertainment Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Non-Upholstered Dining and Living Room Furniture: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

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Books

• Room and Furniture Layout Kit (reference)

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Periodicals

• Conference And Common Room (reference)

• Long Room (reference)

• Upper Room - Audio Cassette (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• A Room With A View (reference)

• Panic Room (Superbit Collection) (reference)

• Room Service (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Round Room (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Office / Room Id Kit (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Vornado 610W Whole Room Air Circulator, Whitestone (reference)

• Vornado 750B Whole Room Air Circulator, Black (reference)

• Vornado 750G Whole Room Air Circulator, Greystone (reference)

• Holmes Compact Room Air Purifier, White (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Patient is being prepared for surgery. An operating room is pictured with physician looking on while patient is being administered anesthetic. Several surgical attendants are also visible. Surgical biopsy is called for to determine exact nature of solid tumor. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

White woman patient is being operated on. Her nipple is being incised by the surgeon. The surgeon and an operating room attendant are visible (there may actually be two surgeons). A surgical biopsy is being performed to determine exact nature of solid tumor. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Data tape storage room, NCHS. Credit: CDC.

Snail Room, CDC Animal Quarters. Credit: CDC.

Control Room - 10ft x 10ft Wind Tunnel. Credit: NASA.

Firing Room #2 During Apollo 12 CDDT. Credit: NASA.

William M. Scaife As young officer on SIALIA Aftermath of helping out in the engine room. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Women working in map-folding room. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Lodging room. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 247. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Deploying the Conductivity/Temperature/Depth (CTD) and rosette water sampler through the baltic room door of the NATHANIEL B. PALMER. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But when there was not room enough in the same place, for their herds to feed together, they by consent, as Abraham and Lot did, Gen. (Second Treatise of Government)

In each of these cases, the defendant, while in police custody, was questioned by police officers, detectives, or a prosecuting attorney in a room in which he was cut off from the outside world. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The rest of the gentlemen being now in the room, Emma found herself obliged to turn from him for a few minutes, and listen to Mr. Cole

Sylvie left the room with a sigh

His nephew left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding

" "That's it," said Zaphod with the sort of grin that would get most people locked away in a room with soft walls.

At one end of the room, in a recess, were a number of barrels, piled one upon another, containing bundles of official documents

Returning to his room he collected his thoughts

He feared intensely in spirit and in flesh but, raising his head bravely, he strode into the room firmly

Through a maze of splintered wood the room at the corner was visible

Soon after my mistress came into the room, who seeing me all bloody, ran and took me up in her hand

When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Try foods cold or at room temperature. (references)

Drink liquids that are at room temperature. (references)

Drink slowly and make sure drinks are at room temperature. (references)

Business

Cost of tuition, room and board are next in importance. (references)

This would suggest considerable room for growth in the market. (references)

The size of an average dining room table is larger than in the United States. (references)

Children

Latvia

The center also has a forensic interview room where victims can be interviewed in a secure environment and their testimony directly transmitted to a courtroom. (references)

India

Press reports described horrific conditions in many mental hospitals elsewhere in the country, including one where inmates were chained in a row on a stone floor in an ill-lit room during the daytime. (references)

Lithuania

In December "a punishment cell" was eliminated in one of these care houses, and a psychologist's post and a relaxation room were set up. Child abuse in connection with alcohol abuse by parents also was a serious problem. (references)

Economic History

Italy

There is, however, room for more. (references)

Austria

However, there is room for improvement. (references)

Italy

Thus, there is plenty of room for growth in American exports to Italy. (references)

Human Rights

Tanzania

A separate unexploded device was found in the room of an attached guesthouse. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

BICE constructed a multipurpose room for pregnant women, mothers, and children. (references)

India

Also in January, militants stormed a police control room in Srinagar, killing 8 policemen. (references)

Indigenous People

Bolivia

Some rural indigenous workers are kept in a state of virtual slavery by employers who charge them more for room and board than they earn. (references)

Minorities

Georgia

They tied the night watchmen and used a blowtorch to force their way into the room where all of the church's valuables were kept in a safe. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

While the Malaysian government's lofty predictions may be unrealistic, there is nevertheless much room for growth. (references)

Political Rights

Belarus

The independent domestic observers reported being kept at one end of the room in which a count would take place, and being read the results of the election at that station, without ever being allowed to see the marked ballots. (references)

Trade

Mexico

There is no room for errors in preparation of export documents, either in dealing with banks or Mexican customs officials. (references)

Kazakhstan

For more information about TDA activities, contact: Dan Stein, Deputy Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, SA-16, Room 309, Washington, DC 20523-1602; Tel: (703) 875-4357; Fax: (703) 875-4009. (references)

Travel

Cape Verde

Room rates range from CVE 3000 to 7000. (references)

Nigeria

Room laundry service is usually offered. (references)

Mexico

Leave these in a hotel safe, not in your room. (references)

Women

Kuwait

In September the courts sentenced one noncitizen to deportation for life for raping a housemaid, while another noncitizen was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, to be followed by deportation, after beating his Asian maid and then locking her in a room to starve her until she would have sex with him. (references)

Worker Rights

Indonesia

The police managed to stop the mob before they reached the conference room. (references)

Kuwait

Workers are housed 10 or more to a room in squalid conditions, many without access to adequate running water. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "room": a furnished room ♦ a heart with room for every joy ♦ a slip of a room ♦ adjoining room ♦ air the room ♦ Amber room ♦ artist's work room ♦ assembly room ♦ attic room ♦ auction room ♦ audiometric room ♦ audit room ♦ baby's room ♦ back room ♦ background in a room ♦ baggage room ♦ ball room ♦ barge into the room ♦ barrack room ♦ bath room ♦ bed room ♦ bedsitting room ♦ bespeak a room at a hotel ♦ big Room ♦ billiard room ♦ blue room ♦ board room ♦ board room floor ♦ board room politics ♦ boiler room ♦ box room ♦ breakfast room ♦ breathing room ♦ card room ♦ ceremonial room ♦ changing room ♦ chart room ♦ chat room ♦ check room ♦ children's room ♦ child's room ♦ clean room ♦ clear the room ♦ clipping room ♦ coffee room ♦ cold room ♦ cold storage room ♦ color room ♦ combination room ♦ common room ♦ composing room ♦ conference room ♦ connecting room ♦ consulting room ♦ control room ♦ counting room ♦ court room ♦ crew room ♦ crush room ♦ cutting room ♦ dark room ♦ day room ♦ dead room ♦ delivery room ♦ dining room ♦ display room ♦ do a room ♦ do one's room ♦ do the room ♦ dorm room ♦ dormitory room ♦ double room ♦ drafting room ♦ Draughting room ♦ drawing room ♦ drawing room car ♦ drawing room comedy ♦ Dressing room ♦ drying room ♦ elbow room ♦ emergency room ♦ empty room ♦ engine room ♦ exam room ♦ extra room ♦ family room ♦ Faraday screen room ♦ fermenting room ♦ find room ♦ fitting room ♦ formula room ♦ front room ♦ function room ♦ furnace room ♦ furnish the living room ♦ furnished room ♦ game room ♦ go up to one's room ♦ green room ♦ grill room ♦ Ground room. Additional references.

Beginning with "room": room-and-kitchens, room-by-room, room-cum-bedroom, room-dividers, room-enhancing, room-'ere, room-facing, room-finding, room-heater, room-height, room-in, room-in-the-roof, room-key, room-keys, room-length, room-mate, room-mates, room-no, room-nodes, room-numbering, room-only, Room-rupert, room-sealed, room-service, room-setting, room-sharing, room-size, room-sized, room-style, room-temperature, room-temperature IQ, room-the, Room-to-be, room-to-room.

Ending with "room": ante-room, back-room, baggage-room, barrack-room, bedsitting-room, board-room, book-room, box-room, breakfast-room, case-room, changing-room, chart-room, coffee-room, composing-room, consulting-room, control-room, court-room, daemon-room, dark-room, dining-room, dressing-room, elbow-room, engine-room, fitting-room, front-room, games-room, growth-room, guard-room, guest-room, hotel-room, house-room, interview-room, lecture-room, leg-room, living-room, locked-room, lumber-room, morning-room, music-room, one-room, pool-room, prop-room, radio-room, reading-room, reception-room, rest-room, room-by-room, school-room, shower-room, single-room, sitting-room, smoking-room, staff-room, still-room, store-room, supply-room, tack-room, tap-room, tea-room, three-room, treatment-room, two-room, waiting-room.

Containing "room": back-room boy, back-room-in-a-pub, barrack-room joke, bar-room plant, bed-sitting-room-study, cloack-room attendant, dining-room attendant, Drawing-room car, four-room flat, har-r-room-mff, near-room-temperature, non-room-sealed, standing-room-only, store-room-of-secrets, two-room flat.

Afrikaans

kamer (chamber), vertrek (absent onself, chamber, depart, departure, go away, leave, leaves). (various references)

Albanian

dhomë (apartment, chamber, house, house-room, magazine), odë (chamber). (various references)

Arabic 

مجال (field, scope, space), ‏مكان (area, locale, locality, locus, place, position, seat, site, space, spot, venue), ‏مجال (area, domain, field, province, purview, range, reach, scope, space, stretch), ‏قسم غرفة في السكن, ‏قاعة (chamber, hall), ‏حيز (beat, get, space), ‏غرفة (camera, cell, chamber, compartment, pad), ‏حجرة (cell, chamber, hatch), ‏أجر (charter, farm out, hire, let, lodge, rent). (various references)

Asturian

salón (living room), comedor (dining room). (various references)

Bavarian

zimma (chamber). (various references)

Bemba

umwakulila (dining room). (various references)

Breton

gambr, c'hambr. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стая (apartment, chamber), служба (body, duty, employment, function, job, office, place, position, post, service, situation), място (collocation, elbow room, ground, locale, locality, location, locus, place, point, position, post, seat, site, space, spot, stand, station, stead), живея (be, bide, breathe, burrow, dig, dwell, home, house, indwell, inhabit, live, range, reside, seat, subsist, walk), празно пространство (vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void), причина (account, cause, excuse, factor, occasion, parent, reason, score, spring, subject, why), пост (assignment, billet, guard, office, position, post, quarter, sentry, station), почва (earth, ground, land, soil, terrain), покои (chamber), повод (cause, ground, halter, handle, motive, occasion, peg, reason, rein, signal, subject), помещение (accommodation, dwelling, premises), давам стая на. (various references)

Catalan

habitació, espai (space), cambra (chamber). (various references)

Cebuano

sala (living room), kan-anan (dining room). (various references)

Chamorro

apusento (bedroom). (various references)

Chinese 

室 . (various references)

Cornish

kynyowva (dining room). (various references)

Croatian

sobu, sobe, soba. (various references)

Czech

pokoj (apartment, peace, serenity, tranquillity). (various references)

Danish

værelse (chamber), rum (space). (various references)

Dutch

wereldruim (space), speling (caprice, space, whim), ruimte (location, outer space, place, space, spot), kamer (chamber, dark-room, small room), bestek (bulk, dimension, extend, reckoning, size, space, specifications). (various references)

Ecuadorian Quechua

ucu. (various references)

Esperanto

spaco (space), ’ambron, ’ambro, ĉambro (chamber). (various references)

Estonian

tuba, toa. (various references)

Faeroese

rúmd (space, universe), rúm (branch, chamber, compartment, department, pigeonhole, section, speciality), stova (cabinet, chamber, living room), kamar (chamber), frástøða (distance, offset, space). (various references)

Farsi 

فضا (Area, Place, Region, Space), منزل دادن به , موقع (Occasion, Period, Situation, Term), محل (Locale, Locality, Location, Place, Site, Situation, Spot, Stead), مسکن گزیدن (Bield, Guest, Inhabit), مجال (Chance, Leisure, Opportunity, Time), وسیع ترکردن , خانه (Domicile, Home, House, Lodge, Shack, Socket), جا (Berth, Case, Emplacement, House, Lieu, Locality, Location, Lodge, Place, Receptacle, Seat, Site, Situation, Socket, Space, Station, Stead, Vacancy, Vacantness), اتاق (Chamber). (various references)

Finnish

huone (chamber, place). (various references)

Flemish

kamer. (various references)

French

chambre (room(1), salle, pièce, espace. (various references)

French Canadian

salle, chambre. (various references)

Frisian

keamer (chamber). (various references)

Galician

cuarto (quarter). (various references)

German

Zimmer (chamber, roomful), Raum (area, berth, chamber, cubically, expanse, hold, scope, space, sphere), Stube (barrack room, chamber, dormitory, lounge, study), Kammer (bolt, box room, cell, chamber, dark-room, house, professional association, small room, store, ventricle), Gelaß (place, space). (various references)

Greek 

δωμάτιο (apartment, chamber). (various references)

Haitian