room /ˈrum, ˈrʊm/
C房間,室;一套房間;U空間,地方;U餘地,機會;U全室的人(vi.)住宿
room /ˈrum, ˈrʊm/ 名詞
屋子,室
room
室 房
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.
Room, a. Spacious; roomy. [Obs.]
No roomer harbour in the place. --Chaucer.
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Room n.
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.
Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. --Luke xiv. 22.
There was no room for them in the inn. --Luke ii. 7.
2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy; a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will give it for the best room in a playhouse. --Overbury.
When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room. --Luke xiv. 8.
3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
I found the prince in the next room. --Shak.
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.]
When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in the room of his father Herod. --Matt. ii. 22.
Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven. --Tyndale.
Let Bianca take her sister's room. --Shak.
5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
There was no prince in the empire who had room for such an alliance. --Addison.
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.
Make room, and let him stand before our face. --Shak.
Syn: -- Space; compass; scope; latitude.
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: way, elbow room]
3: opportunity for; "room for improvement"
4: the people who are present in a room; "the whole room was
cheering"
v : live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old
boarding house" [syn: board]