Definition of room in English:

room

noun ruːmrʊm

1mass noun Space that can be occupied or where something can be done.
空间，地盘
there's only room for a single bed in there
那里只放得下一张单人床。
she made room for Josh on the sofa
with infinitive he was trapped without room to move
她被困得没有转身的余地。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the evenings there is room to move about unlike many bars and the music is quite ambient.
- His room could easily fit three of my bedroom inside of it, with room to move around.
- The man sat down between two people, so she didn't have room to move to see his face.
- It was a little dinner but the table they were seated at gave them both enough room to move around with ease.
- There is room in the safer areas for these children; householders have volunteered to provide it.
- It looks like a conventional backpack, with plenty of room for all your travel gear.
- The field was so crowded there was hardly room to move without running into a slashing sword.
- In three more weeks they will be more than twice the size, giving them no room at all to move.
- This should mean that some of the smaller operators will still have room to move.
- The horses and people took up a lot of room and made the enormous space look almost small.
- One thousand people from a fishing village were forced to move to give room to a refinery plant which was never built.
- Small enough to be cosy, large enough to give her room to move if she wished it.
- As they grow bigger, move them into a larger container so they have enough room to feed and move.
- Laid in gravel and patio, it includes a number of shrubs and plants and offers plenty of room for outdoor dining.
- On the inside, there is plenty of room for rear passengers and the cabin is bright, roomy and attractive.
- The gown had no layers and it hugged her form while allowing her legs ample room to move.
Synonyms
space, free space
headroom, legroom
area, territory, expanse, extent, volume
informal elbow room
1. 1.1 Opportunity or scope for something to happen or be done.
  〈喻〉余地；机会；范围
  there's room for improvement in the way the programme is managed
  with infinitive a policy which left the government with very little room to manoeuvre
  Example sentencesExamples
  But don't rest on your laurels; there will probably still be room for improvement.
  I don't think a sequel is necessary at all, but there is room for it.
  But it proves that there's room for more than one feel-good, cheeky northern comedy.
  The end leaves no room for doubt, for the book actually splits into two voices, a man's and a young woman's.
  That implies there will be plenty of room for replacement purchases in the future.
  She said of the three offices, one was doing extremely well while the other two had room for improvement.
  There is plenty of room for anarchy in such a world, and plenty of room for utopianism, but no real place for the state.
  His interventions were haphazard, ill prepared, and there was plenty of room for others to take initiatives.
  There is plenty of room for growth in Italy, a very fragmented market.
  An increasingly tight schedule meant that there was no room for quibbles about the job description.
  There's plenty of room for anyone to think what they like about it, as the archaeological literature shows.
  This indicates that there was room for experts to disagree on this question.
  Studying The Composition of Foods, I can see why this kind of analysis leaves plenty of room for error.
  There is little room for ambiguity and certainly no cathartic moments.
  As with all young things there's room for plenty of potential but for now we will have to wait.
  But they have little room for manoeuvre, because they cannot determine the prices.
  My fear had left awhile back, leaving plenty of room for the anger that was rising.
  As this last example suggests, there is room for disagreement over the use of Ockham's Razor.
  So, to come to the point, there will also be room for some hesitancy about determinism and freedom.
  Where so much ground is covered, there will be room for disagreement on points of detail, or emphasis.
  Synonyms
  scope, capacity, margin, leeway, latitude, freedom
  occasion, opportunity, chance
2A part or division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling.
房间，室
he wandered from room to room
他一间间逛过去。
Example sentencesExamples
- The window curtain on this side of the room was dark; Ford assumed the suite had two rooms with a wall between them.
- The room was an upstairs room with a floor of beaten earth, laid on beams of wood interlaid with matting.
- There is also a small utility room and separate storage room in this area.
- In the warehouse, a half-dozen or so rooms are stacked floor to ceiling with some of the world's finest wines.
- So he fought them, until they dragged him away to a room covered in padded walls and floors.
- Smaller houses are simply a rectangular block of four walls forming a single room.
- He walked around the school corridors, passing by different rooms and by walls of lockers trying to find the room where the piano was.
- Each room of the mansion presents a unique and different puzzle to be solved.
- To the right of the hall is the living/dining room, a large room which is the full depth of the house.
- The cabin had 3 rooms on the first floor, the kitchen, den, and a locked room.
- On the first floor the master bedroom and en suite bathroom are both spacious rooms with high ceilings.
- In the Chemistry Building there were a number of non-laboratory rooms on the first floor.
- The premises consisted of a single dusty room, with a desk, two filing cabinets and one chair.
- There was a wall, separating two rooms, a living room to the left, and a kitchen to the right.
- And that meant one of the second-floor suites, since none of the rooms on the first floor was set up as personal living quarters.
- Drinkers were served in the taproom, a large single room furnished with trestle tables and benches.
- One of the delightful surprises is the ceiling of the toddler room on the second floor.
- Finally, the attic conversion has added two further rooms with walls and ceilings panelled in white deal.
- The walls and ceiling of the room were perfectly black, with age and dirt.
Synonyms
archaic chamber
1. 2.1 The people present in a room.
  房间里的人
  the whole room burst into an uproar of approval
  整个房间里的人发出一片赞同声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  When she opened the classroom door the room became silent and everyone looked at her.
  The room erupted in a roar of approval and whistles.
  The whole room sat in silence for a few seconds before Matt said goodnight and began packing up.
  Isis thought of how she would like to be able to quiet a whole room by just her presence.
  We suggest with this game that rather than reporters popping up, there should be a whole room of reporters.
  The room once again fell silent, as she waited for her answer.
  Others join in and the whole room burst into a riot of clapping, yells, and screaming.
2. 2.2roomsBritish A set of rooms, typically rented, in which a person, couple, or family live.
  （尤指租用的）一套房间；寓所
  my rooms at Mrs Jenks's house
  我在詹克斯太太家里租的一套房间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They get the sign-painter's boy to help, because his family rents rooms in the schoolmaster's house.
  He lives in rooms set apart from the rest of the house, to allow him some independence from his parents.
  Always the Londoner, Arnold spent most of the week living in his rooms at the top of the Middle Temple.
  Gwen and her family lived in the upper rooms of a small house and I knew from experience that the smell of too many people in too small a place hit a person the second they opened the front door.
  Synonyms
  lodgings, quarters
  accommodation, a place, a place to stay, a billet
  suite, apartments
  British informal digs
  formal abode

verb ruːmrʊm

[no object]North American

1Share a room, house, or flat, especially a rented one at a college or similar institution.
〈主美〉同住一套房间（或房子、公寓）（尤指大学或类似机构的租住房）；居住，住宿
I was rooming with my cousin
我和我的表姐同住。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a phrase your father used on me back when we roomed together here at The Institute.
- The good news was that they were rooming together in the drafty, dirty attic.
- He became a student-assistant coach for the team while still rooming with his two former assistant captains.
- Although I wasn't one for wanting to socialize during this hard time, I guessed that I'd better get to know the people I'd be rooming with over the next two weeks.
- You don't mind if you are rooming with other families do you?
- I was simply tickled when I found out that we would be rooming together.
- We roomed together for a while, and we'd both smoke in there.
- And you certainly wouldn't be rooming with your fiancé if he knew about that.
- Posted on that wall over there is the list of who will be rooming together.
- You might be rooming in the same dorm house you know.
- Two young gay would-be actors in New York are rooming together.
- They had roomed together for the last year at the academy and had numerous classes together throughout their time there.
Synonyms
lodge, board, have rooms
live, stay
be quartered, be housed, be billeted
formal dwell, reside, be domiciled, sojourn
1. 1.1with object Provide with a shared room or lodging.
  让…同住
  they roomed us together
  他们让我们同住一套房间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Instead, I muttered, ‘Because it sucks being roomed with someone who dislikes me.’
  ‘An old acquaintance of mine will be rooming you for the night,’ Dann says.

Phrases

get a room

informal usually in imperativeGo somewhere private (used as a humorous or mildly disapproving comment on a public display of extremely affectionate or amorous behaviour between a couple)
seriously you two, just get a room!
Example sentencesExamples
- I was uncomfortable watching the video too, however, it was because it looked like these two should have gotten a room!
- We'd tell him and his new girlfriend to get a room, but then we wouldn't be able to stare at them kissing.
- We were just backstage in the green room kissing the whole time, and we heard this voice behind us go, 'Get a room.'
- Whoa, get a room, you guys!
- Oh, just get a room, you two.
- The engaged duo is seen sticking their tongues out and getting pretty close to smooching - get a room, you guys!
- Her kids are constantly telling them to "get a room."
- He loves and adores her - they have the most PDA ever and everyone else is like, 'Get a room!'
- You 2 need to get a room and leave commenting to logical people.
- Forget the kissing on the lips, but the whole caressing, bedroom eyes, etc. - get a room.

no (or not) room to swing a cat

humorous Used in reference to a very confined space.
〈幽默〉没有转身的余地，地方狭窄
there's not even room to swing a cat!
Example sentencesExamples
- We have a splendid cabin and there's plenty of room - but in most places there isn't room to swing a cat.
- You don't need to have been inside a dog trap yourself to understand that there isn't room to swing a cat in there,

smoke-filled rooms

Used in reference to political decision-making conducted privately by a small group of influential people rather than more openly or democratically.
烟雾弥漫的房间；密谈室（指少数权势人士非公开的幕后政治谈判或决策）
he understands the party machine, the smoke-filled rooms, and the endless resolutions
Example sentencesExamples
- We got into this mess because we needed to create political leadership opportunities and replace the smoke-filled room with the open-source, collaborative politics that is our future.
- We know that the nation's wealth is all made indoors, that power has passed from the Whigs of the land to the Tories and socialists of the smoke-filled room.
- A smoke-filled room at Marshall Space Flight Center, with representatives of every specialty at Marshall present.
- They were expected to come to his house, stay into the morning hours in a closed, smoke-filled room and help him with his research programs and proposals.
- On the one hand, the photograph gives us a hint of what it feels like to be a power broker whose milieu is the smoke-filled room, or an insider who manages the campaign from the sidelines.
- After the Civil War, said Bonpane, ‘Hayes agreed in a smoke-filled room to take the Yankee troops out of the South.’
- The voters don't really participate in the primaries, and I think Sandy's got a point: not necessarily a smoke-filled room, but bring back party leadership.

Derivatives

roomed

adjective ruːmdrʊmd

in combination a four-roomed house

Origin

Old English rūm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ruim, German Raum.

In Old English room meant ‘the amount of space occupied by something’, and did not mean ‘an interior division of a building’ until the 14th century. The majority of houses then would have had only one room. Sometimes political negotiation is described as having taken place in a smoke-filled room, meaning that it has been conducted privately rather than more openly. The expression comes from a 1920s news report about the selection of the Republican presidential candidate, Warren Harding, who in 1921 became the 29th president of the United States. According to the report he was ‘chosen by a group of men in a smoke-filled room’. Harding was at the time something of a dark horse, and a lack of openness and democracy was associated with his selection. Room at the top is a way of describing the opportunity to join the higher ranks of an organization. The phrase is attributed to the American politician Daniel Webster (1782–1852), who was warned against attempting to enter the overcrowded legal profession. He is said to have replied, ‘There is always room at the top.’ The phrase was taken up in the early 20th century and was used as the title of John Braine's first novel, published in 1957, about an ambitious young man in an industrial town in the north of England which was filmed in 1959. An elephant in the room is an obvious, major problem or controversial issue that is being studiously avoided as a subject for discussion. The phrase was originally American, and seems to have been first used in the early 1980s, in the language of therapists treating people addicted to drink or drugs. An alternative is a moose on the table. See also cat

Rhymes

abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom

Definition of room in US English:

room

noun

1Space that can be occupied or where something can be done, especially viewed in terms of whether there is enough.
空间，地盘
there's only room for a single bed in there
那里只放得下一张单人床。
with infinitive she was trapped without room to move
她被困得没有转身的余地。
Example sentencesExamples
- Laid in gravel and patio, it includes a number of shrubs and plants and offers plenty of room for outdoor dining.
- In the evenings there is room to move about unlike many bars and the music is quite ambient.
- The man sat down between two people, so she didn't have room to move to see his face.
- It looks like a conventional backpack, with plenty of room for all your travel gear.
- As they grow bigger, move them into a larger container so they have enough room to feed and move.
- It was a little dinner but the table they were seated at gave them both enough room to move around with ease.
- Small enough to be cosy, large enough to give her room to move if she wished it.
- On the inside, there is plenty of room for rear passengers and the cabin is bright, roomy and attractive.
- There is room in the safer areas for these children; householders have volunteered to provide it.
- His room could easily fit three of my bedroom inside of it, with room to move around.
- The gown had no layers and it hugged her form while allowing her legs ample room to move.
- The horses and people took up a lot of room and made the enormous space look almost small.
- In three more weeks they will be more than twice the size, giving them no room at all to move.
- The field was so crowded there was hardly room to move without running into a slashing sword.
- One thousand people from a fishing village were forced to move to give room to a refinery plant which was never built.
- This should mean that some of the smaller operators will still have room to move.
Synonyms
space, free space
1. 1.1 Opportunity or scope for something to happen or be done, especially without causing trouble or damage.
  〈喻〉余地；机会；范围
  there is plenty of room for disagreement in this controversial area
  这个有争议的领域还有许多争论的余地。
  there is room for improvement
  有改进的余地。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She said of the three offices, one was doing extremely well while the other two had room for improvement.
  As this last example suggests, there is room for disagreement over the use of Ockham's Razor.
  But they have little room for manoeuvre, because they cannot determine the prices.
  There is plenty of room for growth in Italy, a very fragmented market.
  My fear had left awhile back, leaving plenty of room for the anger that was rising.
  Studying The Composition of Foods, I can see why this kind of analysis leaves plenty of room for error.
  As with all young things there's room for plenty of potential but for now we will have to wait.
  That implies there will be plenty of room for replacement purchases in the future.
  Where so much ground is covered, there will be room for disagreement on points of detail, or emphasis.
  His interventions were haphazard, ill prepared, and there was plenty of room for others to take initiatives.
  There is plenty of room for anarchy in such a world, and plenty of room for utopianism, but no real place for the state.
  So, to come to the point, there will also be room for some hesitancy about determinism and freedom.
  This indicates that there was room for experts to disagree on this question.
  The end leaves no room for doubt, for the book actually splits into two voices, a man's and a young woman's.
  But it proves that there's room for more than one feel-good, cheeky northern comedy.
  There's plenty of room for anyone to think what they like about it, as the archaeological literature shows.
  An increasingly tight schedule meant that there was no room for quibbles about the job description.
  There is little room for ambiguity and certainly no cathartic moments.
  But don't rest on your laurels; there will probably still be room for improvement.
  I don't think a sequel is necessary at all, but there is room for it.
  Synonyms
  scope, capacity, margin, leeway, latitude, freedom
2A part or division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling.
房间，室
he wandered from room to room
他一间间逛过去。
Example sentencesExamples
- The cabin had 3 rooms on the first floor, the kitchen, den, and a locked room.
- Each room of the mansion presents a unique and different puzzle to be solved.
- There was a wall, separating two rooms, a living room to the left, and a kitchen to the right.
- He walked around the school corridors, passing by different rooms and by walls of lockers trying to find the room where the piano was.
- The walls and ceiling of the room were perfectly black, with age and dirt.
- The room was an upstairs room with a floor of beaten earth, laid on beams of wood interlaid with matting.
- Finally, the attic conversion has added two further rooms with walls and ceilings panelled in white deal.
- One of the delightful surprises is the ceiling of the toddler room on the second floor.
- In the Chemistry Building there were a number of non-laboratory rooms on the first floor.
- The window curtain on this side of the room was dark; Ford assumed the suite had two rooms with a wall between them.
- On the first floor the master bedroom and en suite bathroom are both spacious rooms with high ceilings.
- Smaller houses are simply a rectangular block of four walls forming a single room.
- To the right of the hall is the living/dining room, a large room which is the full depth of the house.
- And that meant one of the second-floor suites, since none of the rooms on the first floor was set up as personal living quarters.
- Drinkers were served in the taproom, a large single room furnished with trestle tables and benches.
- So he fought them, until they dragged him away to a room covered in padded walls and floors.
- The premises consisted of a single dusty room, with a desk, two filing cabinets and one chair.
- There is also a small utility room and separate storage room in this area.
- In the warehouse, a half-dozen or so rooms are stacked floor to ceiling with some of the world's finest wines.
Synonyms
chamber
1. 2.1in singular The people present in a room.
  房间里的人
  the whole room burst into an uproar of approval
  整个房间里的人发出一片赞同声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The room erupted in a roar of approval and whistles.
  Others join in and the whole room burst into a riot of clapping, yells, and screaming.
  The room once again fell silent, as she waited for her answer.
  The whole room sat in silence for a few seconds before Matt said goodnight and began packing up.
  We suggest with this game that rather than reporters popping up, there should be a whole room of reporters.
  When she opened the classroom door the room became silent and everyone looked at her.
  Isis thought of how she would like to be able to quiet a whole room by just her presence.
2. 2.2roomsBritish A set of rooms, typically rented, in which a person, couple, or family live.
  （尤指租用的）一套房间；寓所
  my rooms at Mrs. Jenks's house
  我在詹克斯太太家里租的一套房间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They get the sign-painter's boy to help, because his family rents rooms in the schoolmaster's house.
  He lives in rooms set apart from the rest of the house, to allow him some independence from his parents.
  Always the Londoner, Arnold spent most of the week living in his rooms at the top of the Middle Temple.
  Gwen and her family lived in the upper rooms of a small house and I knew from experience that the smell of too many people in too small a place hit a person the second they opened the front door.
  Synonyms
  lodgings, quarters

verb

[no object]North American

1Share a room or house or apartment, especially a rented one at a college or similar institution.
〈主美〉同住一套房间（或房子、公寓）（尤指大学或类似机构的租住房）；居住，住宿
I was rooming with my cousin
我和我的表姐同住。
Example sentencesExamples
- I was simply tickled when I found out that we would be rooming together.
- Although I wasn't one for wanting to socialize during this hard time, I guessed that I'd better get to know the people I'd be rooming with over the next two weeks.
- He became a student-assistant coach for the team while still rooming with his two former assistant captains.
- Two young gay would-be actors in New York are rooming together.
- Posted on that wall over there is the list of who will be rooming together.
- They had roomed together for the last year at the academy and had numerous classes together throughout their time there.
- You might be rooming in the same dorm house you know.
- We roomed together for a while, and we'd both smoke in there.
- You don't mind if you are rooming with other families do you?
- And you certainly wouldn't be rooming with your fiancé if he knew about that.
- It was a phrase your father used on me back when we roomed together here at The Institute.
- The good news was that they were rooming together in the drafty, dirty attic.
Synonyms
lodge, board, have rooms
1. 1.1with object Provide with a shared room or lodging.
  让…同住
  they roomed us together
  他们让我们同住一套房间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Instead, I muttered, ‘Because it sucks being roomed with someone who dislikes me.’
  ‘An old acquaintance of mine will be rooming you for the night,’ Dann says.

Phrases

get a room

informal usually in imperativeGo somewhere private (used as a humorous or mildly disapproving comment on a public display of extremely affectionate or amorous behavior between a couple)
seriously you two, just get a room!
Example sentencesExamples
- The engaged duo is seen sticking their tongues out and getting pretty close to smooching - get a room, you guys!
- Oh, just get a room, you two.
- Her kids are constantly telling them to "get a room."
- Forget the kissing on the lips, but the whole caressing, bedroom eyes, etc. - get a room.
- You 2 need to get a room and leave commenting to logical people.
- We'd tell him and his new girlfriend to get a room, but then we wouldn't be able to stare at them kissing.
- I was uncomfortable watching the video too, however, it was because it looked like these two should have gotten a room!
- We were just backstage in the green room kissing the whole time, and we heard this voice behind us go, 'Get a room.'
- Whoa, get a room, you guys!
- He loves and adores her - they have the most PDA ever and everyone else is like, 'Get a room!'

no (or not) room to swing a cat

humorous Used in reference to a very confined space.
〈幽默〉没有转身的余地，地方狭窄
Example sentencesExamples
- You don't need to have been inside a dog trap yourself to understand that there isn't room to swing a cat in there,
- We have a splendid cabin and there's plenty of room - but in most places there isn't room to swing a cat.

make room

Move aside or move something aside to allow someone to enter or pass or to clear space for something.
（给…）让出地方
the secretary entered with the coffee tray and made room for it on the desk
秘书端着咖啡托盘走进来，在桌上腾出地方放下。
Example sentencesExamples
- He was standing in the open doorway on the small balcony; he stood aside to make room for her.
- Jim stepped inside the elevator after her, then moved aside to make room for several other people.
- As a collection grows and paintings are moved about to make room for additions, each work is seen in a new way.
- At midnight some of the tables are cleared away to make room for a dancefloor, which fills up quickly.
- ‘Sorry,’ she whispered, crowding herself onto the edge of the stairs, making room for him to pass.
- The area of the forest they had stopped in had been cleared to make room for houses.
- She made room for them to pass and closed the door behind her.
- The new space makes room for a counter-height table and stools, plus a wall of pantry cupboards.
- Clear out the space and make room for your heater to function at its best.
- The old must move over to make room for the young, that is natures way.

smoke-filled room

Used to refer to political bargaining or decision-making that is conducted privately by a small group of influential people rather than more openly or democratically.
烟雾弥漫的房间；密谈室（指少数权势人士非公开的幕后政治谈判或决策）
Example sentencesExamples
- We know that the nation's wealth is all made indoors, that power has passed from the Whigs of the land to the Tories and socialists of the smoke-filled room.
- A smoke-filled room at Marshall Space Flight Center, with representatives of every specialty at Marshall present.
- After the Civil War, said Bonpane, ‘Hayes agreed in a smoke-filled room to take the Yankee troops out of the South.’
- On the one hand, the photograph gives us a hint of what it feels like to be a power broker whose milieu is the smoke-filled room, or an insider who manages the campaign from the sidelines.
- The voters don't really participate in the primaries, and I think Sandy's got a point: not necessarily a smoke-filled room, but bring back party leadership.
- They were expected to come to his house, stay into the morning hours in a closed, smoke-filled room and help him with his research programs and proposals.
- We got into this mess because we needed to create political leadership opportunities and replace the smoke-filled room with the open-source, collaborative politics that is our future.

Origin

Old English rūm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ruim, German Raum.

词汇	room
释义	Definition of room in English: room noun ruːmrʊm 1mass noun Space that can be occupied or where something can be done. 空间，地盘 there's only room for a single bed in there 那里只放得下一张单人床。 she made room for Josh on the sofa with infinitive he was trapped without room to move 她被困得没有转身的余地。 Example sentencesExamples In the evenings there is room to move about unlike many bars and the music is quite ambient. His room could easily fit three of my bedroom inside of it, with room to move around. The man sat down between two people, so she didn't have room to move to see his face. It was a little dinner but the table they were seated at gave them both enough room to move around with ease. There is room in the safer areas for these children; householders have volunteered to provide it. It looks like a conventional backpack, with plenty of room for all your travel gear. The field was so crowded there was hardly room to move without running into a slashing sword. In three more weeks they will be more than twice the size, giving them no room at all to move. This should mean that some of the smaller operators will still have room to move. The horses and people took up a lot of room and made the enormous space look almost small. One thousand people from a fishing village were forced to move to give room to a refinery plant which was never built. Small enough to be cosy, large enough to give her room to move if she wished it. As they grow bigger, move them into a larger container so they have enough room to feed and move. Laid in gravel and patio, it includes a number of shrubs and plants and offers plenty of room for outdoor dining. On the inside, there is plenty of room for rear passengers and the cabin is bright, roomy and attractive. The gown had no layers and it hugged her form while allowing her legs ample room to move. Synonyms space, free space headroom, legroom area, territory, expanse, extent, volume informal elbow room 1.1 Opportunity or scope for something to happen or be done. 〈喻〉余地；机会；范围 there's room for improvement in the way the programme is managed with infinitive a policy which left the government with very little room to manoeuvre Example sentencesExamples But don't rest on your laurels; there will probably still be room for improvement. I don't think a sequel is necessary at all, but there is room for it. But it proves that there's room for more than one feel-good, cheeky northern comedy. The end leaves no room for doubt, for the book actually splits into two voices, a man's and a young woman's. That implies there will be plenty of room for replacement purchases in the future. She said of the three offices, one was doing extremely well while the other two had room for improvement. There is plenty of room for anarchy in such a world, and plenty of room for utopianism, but no real place for the state. His interventions were haphazard, ill prepared, and there was plenty of room for others to take initiatives. There is plenty of room for growth in Italy, a very fragmented market. An increasingly tight schedule meant that there was no room for quibbles about the job description. There's plenty of room for anyone to think what they like about it, as the archaeological literature shows. This indicates that there was room for experts to disagree on this question. Studying The Composition of Foods, I can see why this kind of analysis leaves plenty of room for error. There is little room for ambiguity and certainly no cathartic moments. As with all young things there's room for plenty of potential but for now we will have to wait. But they have little room for manoeuvre, because they cannot determine the prices. My fear had left awhile back, leaving plenty of room for the anger that was rising. As this last example suggests, there is room for disagreement over the use of Ockham's Razor. So, to come to the point, there will also be room for some hesitancy about determinism and freedom. Where so much ground is covered, there will be room for disagreement on points of detail, or emphasis. Synonyms scope, capacity, margin, leeway, latitude, freedom occasion, opportunity, chance 2A part or division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling. 房间，室 he wandered from room to room 他一间间逛过去。 Example sentencesExamples The window curtain on this side of the room was dark; Ford assumed the suite had two rooms with a wall between them. The room was an upstairs room with a floor of beaten earth, laid on beams of wood interlaid with matting. There is also a small utility room and separate storage room in this area. In the warehouse, a half-dozen or so rooms are stacked floor to ceiling with some of the world's finest wines. So he fought them, until they dragged him away to a room covered in padded walls and floors. Smaller houses are simply a rectangular block of four walls forming a single room. He walked around the school corridors, passing by different rooms and by walls of lockers trying to find the room where the piano was. Each room of the mansion presents a unique and different puzzle to be solved. To the right of the hall is the living/dining room, a large room which is the full depth of the house. The cabin had 3 rooms on the first floor, the kitchen, den, and a locked room. On the first floor the master bedroom and en suite bathroom are both spacious rooms with high ceilings. In the Chemistry Building there were a number of non-laboratory rooms on the first floor. The premises consisted of a single dusty room, with a desk, two filing cabinets and one chair. There was a wall, separating two rooms, a living room to the left, and a kitchen to the right. And that meant one of the second-floor suites, since none of the rooms on the first floor was set up as personal living quarters. Drinkers were served in the taproom, a large single room furnished with trestle tables and benches. One of the delightful surprises is the ceiling of the toddler room on the second floor. Finally, the attic conversion has added two further rooms with walls and ceilings panelled in white deal. The walls and ceiling of the room were perfectly black, with age and dirt. Synonyms archaic chamber 2.1 The people present in a room. 房间里的人 the whole room burst into an uproar of approval 整个房间里的人发出一片赞同声。 Example sentencesExamples When she opened the classroom door the room became silent and everyone looked at her. The room erupted in a roar of approval and whistles. The whole room sat in silence for a few seconds before Matt said goodnight and began packing up. Isis thought of how she would like to be able to quiet a whole room by just her presence. We suggest with this game that rather than reporters popping up, there should be a whole room of reporters. The room once again fell silent, as she waited for her answer. Others join in and the whole room burst into a riot of clapping, yells, and screaming. 2.2roomsBritish A set of rooms, typically rented, in which a person, couple, or family live. （尤指租用的）一套房间；寓所 my rooms at Mrs Jenks's house 我在詹克斯太太家里租的一套房间。 Example sentencesExamples They get the sign-painter's boy to help, because his family rents rooms in the schoolmaster's house. He lives in rooms set apart from the rest of the house, to allow him some independence from his parents. Always the Londoner, Arnold spent most of the week living in his rooms at the top of the Middle Temple. Gwen and her family lived in the upper rooms of a small house and I knew from experience that the smell of too many people in too small a place hit a person the second they opened the front door. Synonyms lodgings, quarters accommodation, a place, a place to stay, a billet suite, apartments British informal digs formal abode verb ruːmrʊm [no object]North American 1Share a room, house, or flat, especially a rented one at a college or similar institution. 〈主美〉同住一套房间（或房子、公寓）（尤指大学或类似机构的租住房）；居住，住宿 I was rooming with my cousin 我和我的表姐同住。 Example sentencesExamples It was a phrase your father used on me back when we roomed together here at The Institute. The good news was that they were rooming together in the drafty, dirty attic. He became a student-assistant coach for the team while still rooming with his two former assistant captains. Although I wasn't one for wanting to socialize during this hard time, I guessed that I'd better get to know the people I'd be rooming with over the next two weeks. You don't mind if you are rooming with other families do you? I was simply tickled when I found out that we would be rooming together. We roomed together for a while, and we'd both smoke in there. And you certainly wouldn't be rooming with your fiancé if he knew about that. Posted on that wall over there is the list of who will be rooming together. You might be rooming in the same dorm house you know. Two young gay would-be actors in New York are rooming together. They had roomed together for the last year at the academy and had numerous classes together throughout their time there. Synonyms lodge, board, have rooms live, stay be quartered, be housed, be billeted formal dwell, reside, be domiciled, sojourn 1.1with object Provide with a shared room or lodging. 让…同住 they roomed us together 他们让我们同住一套房间。 Example sentencesExamples Instead, I muttered, ‘Because it sucks being roomed with someone who dislikes me.’ ‘An old acquaintance of mine will be rooming you for the night,’ Dann says. Phrases get a room informal usually in imperativeGo somewhere private (used as a humorous or mildly disapproving comment on a public display of extremely affectionate or amorous behaviour between a couple) seriously you two, just get a room! Example sentencesExamples I was uncomfortable watching the video too, however, it was because it looked like these two should have gotten a room! We'd tell him and his new girlfriend to get a room, but then we wouldn't be able to stare at them kissing. We were just backstage in the green room kissing the whole time, and we heard this voice behind us go, 'Get a room.' Whoa, get a room, you guys! Oh, just get a room, you two. The engaged duo is seen sticking their tongues out and getting pretty close to smooching - get a room, you guys! Her kids are constantly telling them to "get a room." He loves and adores her - they have the most PDA ever and everyone else is like, 'Get a room!' You 2 need to get a room and leave commenting to logical people. Forget the kissing on the lips, but the whole caressing, bedroom eyes, etc. - get a room. no (or not) room to swing a cat humorous Used in reference to a very confined space. 〈幽默〉没有转身的余地，地方狭窄 there's not even room to swing a cat! Example sentencesExamples We have a splendid cabin and there's plenty of room - but in most places there isn't room to swing a cat. You don't need to have been inside a dog trap yourself to understand that there isn't room to swing a cat in there, smoke-filled rooms Used in reference to political decision-making conducted privately by a small group of influential people rather than more openly or democratically. 烟雾弥漫的房间；密谈室（指少数权势人士非公开的幕后政治谈判或决策） he understands the party machine, the smoke-filled rooms, and the endless resolutions Example sentencesExamples We got into this mess because we needed to create political leadership opportunities and replace the smoke-filled room with the open-source, collaborative politics that is our future. We know that the nation's wealth is all made indoors, that power has passed from the Whigs of the land to the Tories and socialists of the smoke-filled room. A smoke-filled room at Marshall Space Flight Center, with representatives of every specialty at Marshall present. They were expected to come to his house, stay into the morning hours in a closed, smoke-filled room and help him with his research programs and proposals. On the one hand, the photograph gives us a hint of what it feels like to be a power broker whose milieu is the smoke-filled room, or an insider who manages the campaign from the sidelines. After the Civil War, said Bonpane, ‘Hayes agreed in a smoke-filled room to take the Yankee troops out of the South.’ The voters don't really participate in the primaries, and I think Sandy's got a point: not necessarily a smoke-filled room, but bring back party leadership. Derivatives roomed adjective ruːmdrʊmd in combination a four-roomed house Origin Old English rūm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ruim, German Raum. In Old English room meant ‘the amount of space occupied by something’, and did not mean ‘an interior division of a building’ until the 14th century. The majority of houses then would have had only one room. Sometimes political negotiation is described as having taken place in a smoke-filled room, meaning that it has been conducted privately rather than more openly. The expression comes from a 1920s news report about the selection of the Republican presidential candidate, Warren Harding, who in 1921 became the 29th president of the United States. According to the report he was ‘chosen by a group of men in a smoke-filled room’. Harding was at the time something of a dark horse, and a lack of openness and democracy was associated with his selection. Room at the top is a way of describing the opportunity to join the higher ranks of an organization. The phrase is attributed to the American politician Daniel Webster (1782–1852), who was warned against attempting to enter the overcrowded legal profession. He is said to have replied, ‘There is always room at the top.’ The phrase was taken up in the early 20th century and was used as the title of John Braine's first novel, published in 1957, about an ambitious young man in an industrial town in the north of England which was filmed in 1959. An elephant in the room is an obvious, major problem or controversial issue that is being studiously avoided as a subject for discussion. The phrase was originally American, and seems to have been first used in the early 1980s, in the language of therapists treating people addicted to drink or drugs. An alternative is a moose on the table. See also cat Rhymes abloom, assume, backroom, bloom, Blum, boom, broom, brume, combe, consume, doom, entomb, exhume, flume, foredoom, fume, gloom, Hume, illume, inhume, Khartoum, khoum, loom, neume, perfume, plume, presume, resume, rheum, spume, subsume, tomb, vroom, whom, womb, zoom noun.1 phr. Definition of room in US English: room noun 1Space that can be occupied or where something can be done, especially viewed in terms of whether there is enough. 空间，地盘 there's only room for a single bed in there 那里只放得下一张单人床。 with infinitive she was trapped without room to move 她被困得没有转身的余地。 Example sentencesExamples Laid in gravel and patio, it includes a number of shrubs and plants and offers plenty of room for outdoor dining. In the evenings there is room to move about unlike many bars and the music is quite ambient. The man sat down between two people, so she didn't have room to move to see his face. It looks like a conventional backpack, with plenty of room for all your travel gear. As they grow bigger, move them into a larger container so they have enough room to feed and move. It was a little dinner but the table they were seated at gave them both enough room to move around with ease. Small enough to be cosy, large enough to give her room to move if she wished it. On the inside, there is plenty of room for rear passengers and the cabin is bright, roomy and attractive. There is room in the safer areas for these children; householders have volunteered to provide it. His room could easily fit three of my bedroom inside of it, with room to move around. The gown had no layers and it hugged her form while allowing her legs ample room to move. The horses and people took up a lot of room and made the enormous space look almost small. In three more weeks they will be more than twice the size, giving them no room at all to move. The field was so crowded there was hardly room to move without running into a slashing sword. One thousand people from a fishing village were forced to move to give room to a refinery plant which was never built. This should mean that some of the smaller operators will still have room to move. Synonyms space, free space 1.1 Opportunity or scope for something to happen or be done, especially without causing trouble or damage. 〈喻〉余地；机会；范围 there is plenty of room for disagreement in this controversial area 这个有争议的领域还有许多争论的余地。 there is room for improvement 有改进的余地。 Example sentencesExamples She said of the three offices, one was doing extremely well while the other two had room for improvement. As this last example suggests, there is room for disagreement over the use of Ockham's Razor. But they have little room for manoeuvre, because they cannot determine the prices. There is plenty of room for growth in Italy, a very fragmented market. My fear had left awhile back, leaving plenty of room for the anger that was rising. Studying The Composition of Foods, I can see why this kind of analysis leaves plenty of room for error. As with all young things there's room for plenty of potential but for now we will have to wait. That implies there will be plenty of room for replacement purchases in the future. Where so much ground is covered, there will be room for disagreement on points of detail, or emphasis. His interventions were haphazard, ill prepared, and there was plenty of room for others to take initiatives. There is plenty of room for anarchy in such a world, and plenty of room for utopianism, but no real place for the state. So, to come to the point, there will also be room for some hesitancy about determinism and freedom. This indicates that there was room for experts to disagree on this question. The end leaves no room for doubt, for the book actually splits into two voices, a man's and a young woman's. But it proves that there's room for more than one feel-good, cheeky northern comedy. There's plenty of room for anyone to think what they like about it, as the archaeological literature shows. An increasingly tight schedule meant that there was no room for quibbles about the job description. There is little room for ambiguity and certainly no cathartic moments. But don't rest on your laurels; there will probably still be room for improvement. I don't think a sequel is necessary at all, but there is room for it. Synonyms scope, capacity, margin, leeway, latitude, freedom 2A part or division of a building enclosed by walls, floor, and ceiling. 房间，室 he wandered from room to room 他一间间逛过去。 Example sentencesExamples The cabin had 3 rooms on the first floor, the kitchen, den, and a locked room. Each room of the mansion presents a unique and different puzzle to be solved. There was a wall, separating two rooms, a living room to the left, and a kitchen to the right. He walked around the school corridors, passing by different rooms and by walls of lockers trying to find the room where the piano was. The walls and ceiling of the room were perfectly black, with age and dirt. The room was an upstairs room with a floor of beaten earth, laid on beams of wood interlaid with matting. Finally, the attic conversion has added two further rooms with walls and ceilings panelled in white deal. One of the delightful surprises is the ceiling of the toddler room on the second floor. In the Chemistry Building there were a number of non-laboratory rooms on the first floor. The window curtain on this side of the room was dark; Ford assumed the suite had two rooms with a wall between them. On the first floor the master bedroom and en suite bathroom are both spacious rooms with high ceilings. Smaller houses are simply a rectangular block of four walls forming a single room. To the right of the hall is the living/dining room, a large room which is the full depth of the house. And that meant one of the second-floor suites, since none of the rooms on the first floor was set up as personal living quarters. Drinkers were served in the taproom, a large single room furnished with trestle tables and benches. So he fought them, until they dragged him away to a room covered in padded walls and floors. The premises consisted of a single dusty room, with a desk, two filing cabinets and one chair. There is also a small utility room and separate storage room in this area. In the warehouse, a half-dozen or so rooms are stacked floor to ceiling with some of the world's finest wines. Synonyms chamber 2.1in singular The people present in a room. 房间里的人 the whole room burst into an uproar of approval 整个房间里的人发出一片赞同声。 Example sentencesExamples The room erupted in a roar of approval and whistles. Others join in and the whole room burst into a riot of clapping, yells, and screaming. The room once again fell silent, as she waited for her answer. The whole room sat in silence for a few seconds before Matt said goodnight and began packing up. We suggest with this game that rather than reporters popping up, there should be a whole room of reporters. When she opened the classroom door the room became silent and everyone looked at her. Isis thought of how she would like to be able to quiet a whole room by just her presence. 2.2roomsBritish A set of rooms, typically rented, in which a person, couple, or family live. （尤指租用的）一套房间；寓所 my rooms at Mrs. Jenks's house 我在詹克斯太太家里租的一套房间。 Example sentencesExamples They get the sign-painter's boy to help, because his family rents rooms in the schoolmaster's house. He lives in rooms set apart from the rest of the house, to allow him some independence from his parents. Always the Londoner, Arnold spent most of the week living in his rooms at the top of the Middle Temple. Gwen and her family lived in the upper rooms of a small house and I knew from experience that the smell of too many people in too small a place hit a person the second they opened the front door. Synonyms lodgings, quarters verb [no object]North American 1Share a room or house or apartment, especially a rented one at a college or similar institution. 〈主美〉同住一套房间（或房子、公寓）（尤指大学或类似机构的租住房）；居住，住宿 I was rooming with my cousin 我和我的表姐同住。 Example sentencesExamples I was simply tickled when I found out that we would be rooming together. Although I wasn't one for wanting to socialize during this hard time, I guessed that I'd better get to know the people I'd be rooming with over the next two weeks. He became a student-assistant coach for the team while still rooming with his two former assistant captains. Two young gay would-be actors in New York are rooming together. Posted on that wall over there is the list of who will be rooming together. They had roomed together for the last year at the academy and had numerous classes together throughout their time there. You might be rooming in the same dorm house you know. We roomed together for a while, and we'd both smoke in there. You don't mind if you are rooming with other families do you? And you certainly wouldn't be rooming with your fiancé if he knew about that. It was a phrase your father used on me back when we roomed together here at The Institute. The good news was that they were rooming together in the drafty, dirty attic. Synonyms lodge, board, have rooms 1.1with object Provide with a shared room or lodging. 让…同住 they roomed us together 他们让我们同住一套房间。 Example sentencesExamples Instead, I muttered, ‘Because it sucks being roomed with someone who dislikes me.’ ‘An old acquaintance of mine will be rooming you for the night,’ Dann says. Phrases get a room informal usually in imperativeGo somewhere private (used as a humorous or mildly disapproving comment on a public display of extremely affectionate or amorous behavior between a couple) seriously you two, just get a room! Example sentencesExamples The engaged duo is seen sticking their tongues out and getting pretty close to smooching - get a room, you guys! Oh, just get a room, you two. Her kids are constantly telling them to "get a room." Forget the kissing on the lips, but the whole caressing, bedroom eyes, etc. - get a room. You 2 need to get a room and leave commenting to logical people. We'd tell him and his new girlfriend to get a room, but then we wouldn't be able to stare at them kissing. I was uncomfortable watching the video too, however, it was because it looked like these two should have gotten a room! We were just backstage in the green room kissing the whole time, and we heard this voice behind us go, 'Get a room.' Whoa, get a room, you guys! He loves and adores her - they have the most PDA ever and everyone else is like, 'Get a room!' no (or not) room to swing a cat humorous Used in reference to a very confined space. 〈幽默〉没有转身的余地，地方狭窄 Example sentencesExamples You don't need to have been inside a dog trap yourself to understand that there isn't room to swing a cat in there, We have a splendid cabin and there's plenty of room - but in most places there isn't room to swing a cat. make room Move aside or move something aside to allow someone to enter or pass or to clear space for something. （给…）让出地方 the secretary entered with the coffee tray and made room for it on the desk 秘书端着咖啡托盘走进来，在桌上腾出地方放下。 Example sentencesExamples He was standing in the open doorway on the small balcony; he stood aside to make room for her. Jim stepped inside the elevator after her, then moved aside to make room for several other people. As a collection grows and paintings are moved about to make room for additions, each work is seen in a new way. At midnight some of the tables are cleared away to make room for a dancefloor, which fills up quickly. ‘Sorry,’ she whispered, crowding herself onto the edge of the stairs, making room for him to pass. The area of the forest they had stopped in had been cleared to make room for houses. She made room for them to pass and closed the door behind her. The new space makes room for a counter-height table and stools, plus a wall of pantry cupboards. Clear out the space and make room for your heater to function at its best. The old must move over to make room for the young, that is natures way. smoke-filled room Used to refer to political bargaining or decision-making that is conducted privately by a small group of influential people rather than more openly or democratically. 烟雾弥漫的房间；密谈室（指少数权势人士非公开的幕后政治谈判或决策） Example sentencesExamples We know that the nation's wealth is all made indoors, that power has passed from the Whigs of the land to the Tories and socialists of the smoke-filled room. A smoke-filled room at Marshall Space Flight Center, with representatives of every specialty at Marshall present. After the Civil War, said Bonpane, ‘Hayes agreed in a smoke-filled room to take the Yankee troops out of the South.’ On the one hand, the photograph gives us a hint of what it feels like to be a power broker whose milieu is the smoke-filled room, or an insider who manages the campaign from the sidelines. The voters don't really participate in the primaries, and I think Sandy's got a point: not necessarily a smoke-filled room, but bring back party leadership. They were expected to come to his house, stay into the morning hours in a closed, smoke-filled room and help him with his research programs and proposals. We got into this mess because we needed to create political leadership opportunities and replace the smoke-filled room with the open-source, collaborative politics that is our future. Origin Old English rūm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ruim, German Raum. noun.1 phr.
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