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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Room \Room\, a. [AS. r[=u]m.] Spacious; roomy. [Obs.] No roomer harbour in the place --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Room \Room\ (r[=oo]m), n. [OE. roum, rum, space, AS r[=u]m; akin to OS., OFries & Icel. r[=u]m, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG. r[=u]m, Sw & Dan. rum, Goth. r[=u]ms, and to AS r[=u]m, adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. r[=u]mr, Goth. r[=u]ms; and prob. to L. rus country (cf. {Rural}), Zend rava[.n]h 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 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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 (in a certain place) [syn: {board}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: room {channel}
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