Chamber vs. Quarters — What's the Difference?

A room in a house, especially a bedroom.

One of four equal parts.

A room where a person of authority, rank, or importance receives visitors.

A coin equal to one fourth of the dollar of the United States and Canada.

Chambers The private office where the judge consults with parties and conducts business not required to be brought in open court.

One fourth of an hour; 15 minutes.

Chambers Chiefly British A suite of rooms, especially one used by lawyers.

One fourth of a year; three months

A hall for the meetings of a legislative or other assembly.

An academic term lasting approximately three months.

A legislative or judicial body.

One fourth of the period of the moon's revolution around Earth.

A board or council.

One of the two phases of the moon at which the moon, as viewed from Earth, appears to be half illuminated by the sun. The quarter phases mark the quarter and three-quarter points of the moon's revolution about the Earth.

A place where municipal or state funds are received and held; a treasury.

(Sports) One of four equal periods of playing time into which some games, such as football and basketball, are divided.

An enclosed space or compartment

One fourth of a yard; nine inches.

An enclosed space in the body of an organism; a cavity

One fourth of a mile; two furlongs.

A compartment in a firearm, as in the breech of a rifle or the cylinder of a revolver, that holds the cartridge in readiness for firing.

One fourth of a pound; four ounces.

An enclosed space in the bore of a gun that holds the charge.

One fourth of a ton; 500 pounds. Used as a measure of grain.

To put (a round) in the chamber of a firearm.

Chiefly British A measure of grain equal to approximately eight bushels.

To design or manufacture (a firearm) to hold a specific type of cartridge.

One fourth of a hundredweight; 25 pounds.

To furnish with a chamber or chambers

One fourth of a British hundredweight; 28 pounds.

A room or set of rooms, particularly:

One of the four major divisions of the compass.

The private room of an individual, especially of someone wealthy or noble.

One fourth of the distance between any two of the 32 divisions of the compass.

A bedroom.

One of the four major divisions of the horizon as determined by the four major points of the compass.

The private office of a judge.

A region or an area of the earth thought of as falling into such a specific division of the compass.

The room used for deliberation by a legislature.

(Nautical) The general direction on either side of a ship located 45° off the stern.

A single law office in a building housing several.

The upper portion of the after side of a ship, usually between the aftermost mast and the stern.

Rooms in a lodging house.

The part of a yard between the slings and the yardarm.

(obsolete) chamber pot a container used for urination and defecation in one's chambers.

(Heraldry) Any of four equal divisions of a shield.

The legislature or division of the legislature itself.

One leg of an animal's carcass, usually including the adjoining parts.

Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.

Either side of a horse's hoof.

(biology) An enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.

The part of the side of a shoe between the heel and the vamp.

(firearms) The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.

Quarters A place of residence, especially the buildings or barracks used to house military personnel or their dependents.

(firearms) One of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.

Often quarters A proper or assigned station or place, as for officers and crew on a warship.

(historical) A short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.

Often Quarter A specific district or section, as of a city

One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.

Often quarters An unspecified person or group

To enclose in a room.

Mercy or clemency, especially when displayed or given to an enemy.

To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.

Being one of four equal or equivalent parts.

To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.

Being one fourth of a standard or usual value.

To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.

To divide into four equal or equivalent parts.

(martial arts) To prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.

To quartersaw.

(obsolete) To be lascivious.

To divide or separate into a number of parts.

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

To dismember (a human body) into four parts.

Apartments in a lodging house.

(Heraldry) To divide (a shield) into four equal areas with vertical and horizontal lines.

A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber.

To mark or place (holes, for example) a fourth of a circle apart.

A legislative or judicial body; an assembly; a society or association; as, the Chamber of Deputies; the Chamber of Commerce.

To locate and adjust (one machine part) at right angles to its connecting part within the machine.

A compartment or cell; an inclosed space or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.

To furnish with housing

A room or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.

To traverse (an area of ground) laterally back and forth while slowly advancing forward.

A chamber pot.

To take up or be assigned lodgings.

That part of the bore of a piece of ordnance which holds the charge, esp. when of different diameter from the rest of the bore; - formerly, in guns, made smaller than the bore, but now larger, esp. in breech-loading guns.

To cover an area of ground by ranging over it from side to side.

To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.

Plural of quarter.

To be lascivious.

Housing, barracks or other habitation or living space. Compare cuarto.

To shut up, as in a chamber.

(by extension) The place where someone or something lives

To furnish with a chamber; as, to chamber a gun.

A commonly played university drinking game in North America.

A natural or artificial enclosed space

Quarterfinals.

An enclosed volume (as the aqueous chamber of the eyeball or the chambers of the heart)

Housing available for people to live in;

A room where a judge transacts business

A deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly;

A room used primarily for sleeping

Place in a chamber