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Found 6 hits - Term: room, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
room \room\, a. as. r=um.
   spacious; roomy. obs.
   1913 webster

         no roomer harbour in the place.          --chaucer.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
room \room\ r=oom, n. oe. roum, rum, space, as. r=um;
   akin to os., ofries.  icel. r=um, d. ruim, g. raum, ohg.
   r=um, sw.  dan. rum, goth. r=ums, and to as. r=um,
   adj., spacious, d. ruim, icel. r=umr, goth. r=ums; and
   prob. to l. rus country cf. rural, zend rava.nh wide,
   free, open, ravan a plain.
   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.
      1913 webster

            lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet
            there is room.                        --luke xiv.
                                                  22.
      1913 webster

            there was no room for them in the inn. --luke ii. 7.
      1913 webster

   2. a particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy;
      a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
      1913 webster

            if he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will
            give it for the best room in a playhouse.
                                                  --overbury.
      1913 webster

            when thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit
            not down in the highest room.         --luke xiv. 8.
      1913 webster

   3. especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set
      apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
      1913 webster

            i found the prince in the next room.  --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            when he heard that archelaus did reign in judea in
            the room of his father herod.         --matt. ii.
                                                  22.
      1913 webster

            neither that i look for a higher room in heaven.
                                                  --tyndale.
      1913 webster

            let bianca take her sister's room.    --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to
      act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
      1913 webster

            there was no prince in the empire who had room for
            such an alliance.                     --addison.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            make room, and let him stand before our face.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   syn: space; compass; scope; latitude.
        1913 webster
see also:
rural room and space to give room to make room 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
room \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.
   1913 webster
see also:
roomed rooming 
[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
way elbow room board 
[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
140 moby thesaurus words for "room":
   a leg up, abide, accommodation, accommodations, air space,
   allowance, ample scope, apartment, area, bed, berth, billet,
   blank check, board, bunk, burden, caesura, capacity, carte blanche,
   cell, chamber, chambers, chance, clear stage, clearance, cohabit,
   compartment, content, cordage, cubicle, diggings, digs,
   discontinuity, distance between, domicile, domiciliate, doss down,
   double space, dwell, dwelling, elbowroom, em space, en space,
   extent, fair field, fair game, field, flat, free course, free hand,
   free play, free scope, freeboard, full scope, full swing,
   hair space, half space, hang out, harbor, headroom, hiatus, house,
   housing, hut, inhabit, interim, intermediate space, interruption,
   interspace, interstice, interval, jump, lacuna, latitude, leap,
   leeway, liberty, license, limit, live, living quarters, lodge,
   lodging, lodgings, lodgment, long rope, maneuvering space, margin,
   measure, nest, no holds barred, occasion, occupy, office,
   open space, opening, opportunism, opportunity, perch, place, play,
   poundage, put up, quantity, quarter, quarters, range, rein, remain,
   rental, reside, room to spare, rooms, roost, rope, scope, sea room,
   shelter, single space, sleeping place, space, space between,
   spare room, squat, stable, stay, stepping-stone, stowage, suite,
   sway, swing, tenant, tenement, time, time interval, tolerance,
   tonnage, volume, way, wide berth




[6] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
room
     
        channel
     
     
see also:
channel 

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