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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
room
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a breakfast table/room
▪ The house has a large kitchen and a breakfast room.
a fitness room
▪ Other facilities in the hotel include a fitness room and a sauna.
a hospital ward/room
▪ nurses working on hospital wards
a hotel room
▪ She was watching TV in her hotel room.
a laundry room
▪ There's a washing machine in the laundry room.
a lecture hall/room (also a lecture theatre British English)
▪ The lecture hall was packed.
ample room/space etc
▪ She found ample room for her things in the wardrobe.
at room temperature
▪ Store the wine at room temperature.
attic room
▪ a small attic room
baggage room
be (little/no) room for optimism (=have a possibility that things might get better)
▪ There is little room for optimism in the current financial situation.
boiler room
book a room/hotel
▪ Ross found a good hotel and booked a room.
box room
Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms
changing room
Changing Rooms
chat room
chill room
common room
consulting room
control room
▪ the submarine’s control room
cutting room
day room
dining room
drawing room
dressing room
emergency room
family room
fitting room
front room
give...breathing room
▪ This deal should give the company some extra breathing room before its loans are due.
green room
guest room
home room
house/flat/room mate (=someone you share a house, room etc with)
incident room
ladies' room
leg room
▪ There wasn’t enough leg room.
living room
locker room
lumber room
men's room
morning room
no room for complacency
▪ Despite yesterday’s win, there is clearly no room for complacency if the team want to stay top of the league.
operating room
pace the floor/room
▪ Sam stood up and paced the floor, deep in thought.
powder room
rec room
reception room
recovery room
recreation ground/area/room
▪ a recreation area for children to play in
recreation room
rest room
room and board
▪ You’ll receive free room and board with the job.
room for improvement (=the possibility that something could be done better)
▪ There's room for improvement in the way the tickets are sold.
room service
room temperature
▪ The wine should be served at room temperature.
rooming house
room/scope for disagreement (=the possibility that people will disagree about something)
▪ There is room for disagreement about how much independence to give children.
rumpus room
sitting room
smoke-filled room
smoking room
snooker table/room/hall
spare room
standing room only (=no seats were left)
▪ There was standing room only in the courthouse.
standing room
▪ There was standing room only no seats were left in the courthouse.
steam room
suite of rooms
▪ a suite of rooms for palace guests
take up space/room
▪ old books that were taking up space in the office
the sick room (=the room where a sick person is)
▪ She had spent the last hour in her mother’s sick room.
the staff roomBritish English (= a room for teachers in a school)
▪ I usually have a coffee in the staff room before school starts.
utility room
waiting room
wiggle room
women's room
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
back
▪ In my father's house, I took the back room.
▪ In spite of the circumstances, the mood there in the back room was far from somber, though.
▪ Fights can take place anywhere, from the back room of a pub to a municipal hall.
▪ Foaming schooners, free lunch, fish fry Fridays, poker in the back room, arguments settled in the alley.
▪ She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor.
▪ The other four victims found in the back room or office were nude.
▪ The vicar left his position near the soldier, and disappeared into a back room.
▪ Most of the girls were already in the back room smoking with Coughlin.
comfortable
▪ All the comfortable rooms sleep two and are of a high standard with private shower and W.C; most have a balcony.
▪ Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.
▪ We visited one day in her comfortable room at the Research Center.
▪ They saw a warm, comfortable room with a good fire burning in the fireplace and a few papers on the big table.
▪ There is a comfortable sitting room, with beams and an inglenook fireplace with bricks worn down by centuries of knife sharpening.
▪ The comfortable rooms all enjoy an en-suite shower/WC.
▪ The kitchen was a homely, comfortable room.
dining
▪ The medical staff dining room was almost empty, and the last group of people were just leaving.
▪ He looked over the women in the ship's dining room, just checking, a few glanced his way.
▪ Access to the dining room in the north-east corner of the main block was then made via a short flight of stairs.
▪ He was like a kid making his camp under the dining room table with some blankets and pillows.
▪ Ensure that cutlery which has been cleaned using chemicals gets a thorough washing before going back into the dining room.
▪ Fifteen serving staff work in the main refectory with four waitresses in the staff dining room.
▪ Are you going to eat in the living room, dining room or kitchen?
front
▪ Patrick followed Ben Travers into his front room.
▪ Roland Major sat in the middle of the front room that had already been cleaned and refused to help.
▪ I went back into the scullery and opened the adjoining door to the front room.
▪ The front room was full of everything front rooms were full of when they had the sale after the Festival of Britain.
▪ When we got there she was lying in the front room.
▪ An example is one of the strip buildings at Sea Mills, which contained a number of ovens in the front room.
▪ Would it look more natural to have his father kneeling in the front room?
▪ The resort is a short bus ride away and shops and cafés are nearby. Front rooms are larger.
living
▪ She opened the door to the living room.
▪ Their gold band design on ivory, white, and black backgrounds is very well suited to living room areas.
▪ Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room.
▪ Willie would return from school to find the living room filled with the musky perfume of freshly-cut branches burning in the range.
▪ The main living rooms downstairs have low ceilings and are wood beamed.
▪ Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees.
▪ Do they need to look equally at home in kitchen, dining room or living room?
▪ The damp was creeping into the living room.
single
▪ Supplements per person per night: Single room £12.40.
▪ Supplements per person per night: No single room supplements.
▪ Supplements per person per night: Single room 11 Jul-4 Sep £9.75, All other times £13.25.
sitting
▪ There was movement in his sitting room, in his kitchen.
▪ The sitting room had shabby chintz furniture, and faded curtains in the long window alcove.
▪ A gilt harp sits in the bay window of the sitting room.
▪ There was nothing, not even that hotel sitting room, to compare.
▪ He looked round his sitting room.
▪ Facilities include a cosy sitting room where drinks are served, and a sun terrace.
▪ There were 8 kitchens, 19 bathrooms, 24 toilets, 11 dining rooms, 17 bedrooms and 21 sitting rooms.
▪ Lunch went on past three o'clock, when they went to the sun-filled sitting room with coffee and cigars.
spare
▪ We had tried cycling, skipping and jogging and we both had an exercise bike in the spare room.
▪ Every spare room became a coveted rental unit.
▪ He had left the fire on in the spare room.
▪ Friends offered to let me stay in a spare room or on a couch.
▪ Back in the spare room there were problems.
▪ We must furnish our spare room at once if this sort of thing is to happen often.
▪ Gyggle would store me in a spare room of the hospital and keep me under twenty-four-hour observation while I was unconscious.
▪ For years, teachers relied on using spare rooms in the Park hospital building.
■ NOUN
conference
▪ They get summoned into the conference room.
▪ For years, the supervisors have shared bathrooms and conference rooms and worked in cramped offices.
▪ He smells of conference rooms and courtrooms.
▪ The meeting took place a few days later in a hotel conference room.
▪ In addition to the daily service there are functions in a main function suite and in conference rooms on every floor.
▪ The massage takes place in conference rooms, where employees relax in massage chairs.
▪ Large sliding doors open from the oak-floored corridor in the pavilion into the conference rooms.
▪ The group assembled in the marble-lined conference room for detailed discussions about the columns for the arcade.
control
▪ In the immediate vicinity, sensitive monitors relay readings back to the central control room.
▪ Unlike radio, the anchor / readers do not have to be in eye contact with the control room.
▪ The competition, in its eighth year, was organised by Wytch Farm control room operator Dave Handley.
▪ You see engineers in the control room.
▪ A face forced its way through the hatch which led from the control room.
▪ Most astronomers are enclosed in observing cages or in control rooms for most of the time they are observing.
▪ A control room operator at Dimlington, he has followed motor racing for years.
▪ The floor manager is the human lifeline between the talent on the set and the control room.
emergency
▪ If chest pain occurs report immediately to nearest emergency room.
▪ At Massachusetts General, William Tisdale was a second-year medical resident in the emergency room.
▪ A 33-year-old man was brought to the emergency room in coma.
▪ They were also asked how much total waiting time elapsed between triage and departure from the emergency room.
▪ In the emergency room he appeared deeply comatose: his eyes were closed and he did not react to noxious stimuli.
▪ I made my way through a long corridor toward the emergency room.
▪ Now, with abortion illegal, it was far more dangerous, and many victims ended in hospital emergency rooms.
▪ It was too quiet for an emergency room, I thought.
guest
▪ Rex rampant, I thought later in their guest room.
▪ We removed our gear from our bikes and were ushered into their guest room.
▪ I fetch another from the guest room.
▪ He put his handkerchief in his pocket, and looked into the full-length mirror on the back of the guest room door.
▪ The system provides instantaneous online guest room security control.
▪ I took a quick look around, then went straight to the guest room.
▪ Dining/guest rooms Much the same suggestions can apply to a room that also acts as part-time guest room.
▪ One night, hours after Roland and Mimi had gone to bed, Margarett appeared in the garden outside the guest room.
hotel
▪ The first, as I was rapidly discovering in his hotel room, is enthusiasm.
▪ It was your basic small, upscale hotel room.
▪ But a couple of hours later in his hotel room, he knew, he saw the extent of his madness.
▪ Kawai's Trilby Cold comforts of a hotel room: the air-conditioning and fridge join forces for a chummy hum, barbershop-style.
▪ Whaling, Reiniger said from his Palo Alto hotel room, radicalized the black sailors, who traveled the world hunting whales.
▪ So he set the play in a hotel room, and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in.
▪ In that hotel room in Carlsbad, I wondered what I would want in their shoes.
locker
▪ Rock music boomed from speakers in the locker room.
▪ At halftime, Oregon up by six, Jess stands alone in the back of the locker room staring her wide-eyed stare.
▪ Privately, some express worries about the effect of picking transsexuals on locker room morale.
▪ Their locker room Monday was as jovial as any could be, especially considering their 2-4 record.
▪ She takes the anger down with her to the locker room, but keeps it close.
▪ She sits alone in the locker room for a long time, dry-eyed, numb, unthinking.
▪ That was plainly evident in the locker room, where Hostetler teetered on the brink of openly losing his temper.
▪ Unfortunately, a row of lockers lined the wall Separating the gym from the locker room, obstructing the view.
reception
▪ She didn't take him to one of the two formal reception rooms opening off the hall.
▪ Bernstein went back to the locked reception room through an inner doorway.
▪ It offers good size accommodation, benefiting from three good bedrooms, two separate reception rooms and partial gas fired central heating.
▪ He sits in an oversized armchair in a huge reception room equipped with a state-of-the-art video wall.
▪ The house consisted of two reception rooms, each furnished with black oak monstrosities that created a dark and depressing atmosphere.
▪ Tommy, as usual, is whispering to Nico hotly when I come through the reception room.
▪ The reception room was little more than a hall.
▪ The public reception room was not a welcoming sight.
service
▪ There is room service and airconditioning.
▪ We can deliver from room service for $ 4 a bag.
▪ Watersports Shopping village All rooms and suites have mini-bar and 24 hour room service.
▪ Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.
▪ It does not include travel insurance, wine and drinks with meals and room service.
▪ My room service breakfast practically leaped through the door.
▪ These are meals on heels, moving targets, room service.
▪ There is room service but bedrooms have no minibar or air-conditioning.
temperature
▪ Remove about an hour before the guests are expected and fill the pineapple shells, then leave to come up to room temperature.
▪ Cool at room temperature and cut into squares.
▪ Choosing Choose fruit that's just softening; it will soon ripen at room temperature.
▪ To serve, cut into wedges and serve warm or at room temperature.
▪ An air conditioner to maintain normal room temperature is advisable.
▪ Season buffalo steaks with salt and pepper to taste and let them rest for 1 hour at room temperature.
▪ Incubation was performed at room temperature for 30 minutes.
▪ Remove pot from oven and serve right from the pot either warm or at room temperature.
■ VERB
enter
▪ Anyone entering the room just then would have thought what a very handsome couple they were.
▪ I passed quickly through the foyer, angled left through the large cathedral-ceilinged living room, entered the dining room.
▪ The girl opened a door with a Yale key and they entered a dark room.
▪ The little room could be entered from the living room and from the staircase outside their flat.
▪ On entering a small seminar room, where a meeting is already under way, the show may take the following complex form.
▪ Online host: You have entered the Sports Fanz room.
▪ She ascended the stairs and entered her own room first, but there was no one there.
fill
▪ Cold glass and cold metal frame filling that room.
▪ The bright yellow light filled the room like sunshine.
▪ You may then proceed with filling the room with furnishings.
▪ The honeysuckle had climbed the back wall of the house and its fragrance filled my old room.
▪ In the transmitter, infra-red is modulated to carry the analogue sound information which then fills the room.
▪ Clouds of steam from the dishwasher filled the room when the going got heavy.
▪ At night he filled the room.
▪ Nobody would be there with the party filling the other rooms.
leave
▪ When Kee left the room Conway picked up the telephone.
▪ However, the author does not leave much room for ambiguity.
▪ He left the room and in his bed he wept with a violence he had never known before, spasm following spasm.
▪ Feeling thoroughly disquieted, she left her room in a rush.
▪ We leave the room feeling let down and the boss, no doubt, feels much the same.
▪ This does, however, tend to reduce precision and leave room for biases.
move
▪ She nodded, all the time moving about the room which was in an incredible confusion.
▪ Faklirti and his family moved into a cement room at the back of the house.
▪ When I move into the living room, some one is waiting.
▪ They moved deliberately around the room, never raising their voices.
▪ All the lights were on and people seemed to be moving about in every room.
▪ After Mrs Saulitis moved into her own room, the sergeant arrived on Saturday afternoons, packages in his hands.
▪ Then I went to work in another factory as a machinist and I moved into a room with the child.
▪ A tall, slender woman moved into the room from the kitchen, wearing an apron.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acres of space/room
charge sth to sb's account/room etc
elbow room
▪ In October the museums and art galleries are less crowded, and there's more elbow room in restaurants.
▪ Let's sit in a booth. There's more elbow room there.
▪ They stood in the crowd, fighting for elbow room.
▪ Give each elbow room to display its fronds.
▪ It can change the climate enough to give people elbow room to do the right things.
▪ Mr. Illsley Where would Nottinghamshire county council find the elbow room to which the hon. Gentleman referred?
▪ Oh come, you must leave even me a little elbow room in which to breathe.
▪ Packed three or four to a closet-sized room, students can come to envy the elbow room afforded sardines and cosmonauts.
▪ The belt provides vast material resources, vast amounts of solar power, and vast elbow room.
▪ The little clearing was shielded from the street by the laurels, and afforded him plenty of elbow room.
▪ There was enough elbow room in this gargantuan aquarium for all kinds of surprises to emerge.
feng shui a room/house etc
room for manoeuvre/freedom of manoeuvre
single bed/room etc
▪ A single room supplement of £8 per person per night applies at hotels indicated.
▪ Additional night, single room and upgrade prices are available.
▪ His own family-seven strong-live in a single room in the house.
▪ Lounge / dining / kitchen areas with seating which converts to a double or two single beds are required.
▪ One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
▪ Supplements per person per night: No single room supplement.
▪ Supplements per person per night: No supplement in single rooms without private facilities.
the elephant in the (living) room
the green room
turn a room/building etc inside out
twin room/bedroom
▪ All of the twin rooms and most of the singles have an en-suite shower/WC.
▪ All the twin rooms are comfortable, and all overlook the attractive courtyard.
▪ Bedrooms have telephone and twin rooms have a balcony.
▪ Half board prices are based on twin rooms which can take two extra sofa beds.
▪ Prices are based on two people sharing a twin room with private facilities.
▪ Some twin bedrooms which will have a balcony and sea view are available at a supplement.
▪ Some twin rooms have a balcony.
▪ The twin bedrooms are airy, spacious and comfortably furnished.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Amanda, can you clean up your room, please?
▪ Do you have room for this in your bag?
▪ He didn't think he had room to pass the car in front.
▪ Leave room for people to get by.
▪ There isn't any more room in the closet.
▪ They had no room to spare in their car, so we had to take a taxi.
▪ We're on the eighth floor, room 804.
▪ We can't sit there, there's not enough room.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He played in his room with the toys, alone.
▪ I stood in our living room, surrounded by adults, my eyes squeezed closed.
▪ I went back to my room, trying to forget about my brother.
▪ In the darkness of that room, I cried for Induk.
▪ My father sits in the livingroom in front of the television, my brothers in the dining room in silence.
▪ So grindingly horrible it could clear any room anywhere any time.
▪ So she stopped off at her floor and hurried along to her room.
▪ The library consisted of two rooms, but the only entry to the inner room was through the outer.
II.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acres of space/room
elbow room
▪ In October the museums and art galleries are less crowded, and there's more elbow room in restaurants.
▪ Let's sit in a booth. There's more elbow room there.
▪ They stood in the crowd, fighting for elbow room.
▪ Give each elbow room to display its fronds.
▪ It can change the climate enough to give people elbow room to do the right things.
▪ Mr. Illsley Where would Nottinghamshire county council find the elbow room to which the hon. Gentleman referred?
▪ Oh come, you must leave even me a little elbow room in which to breathe.
▪ Packed three or four to a closet-sized room, students can come to envy the elbow room afforded sardines and cosmonauts.
▪ The belt provides vast material resources, vast amounts of solar power, and vast elbow room.
▪ The little clearing was shielded from the street by the laurels, and afforded him plenty of elbow room.
▪ There was enough elbow room in this gargantuan aquarium for all kinds of surprises to emerge.
room for manoeuvre/freedom of manoeuvre
single bed/room etc
▪ A single room supplement of £8 per person per night applies at hotels indicated.
▪ Additional night, single room and upgrade prices are available.
▪ His own family-seven strong-live in a single room in the house.
▪ Lounge / dining / kitchen areas with seating which converts to a double or two single beds are required.
▪ One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.
▪ Supplements per person per night: No single room supplement.
▪ Supplements per person per night: No supplement in single rooms without private facilities.
the elephant in the (living) room
the green room
turn a room/building etc inside out
twin room/bedroom
▪ All of the twin rooms and most of the singles have an en-suite shower/WC.
▪ All the twin rooms are comfortable, and all overlook the attractive courtyard.
▪ Bedrooms have telephone and twin rooms have a balcony.
▪ Half board prices are based on twin rooms which can take two extra sofa beds.
▪ Prices are based on two people sharing a twin room with private facilities.
▪ Some twin bedrooms which will have a balcony and sea view are available at a supplement.
▪ Some twin rooms have a balcony.
▪ The twin bedrooms are airy, spacious and comfortably furnished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Simone tagged along in his life, sometimes rooming with him.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Room

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. 2

  2. 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

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.

Room

Room \Room\, a. [AS. r[=u]m.] Spacious; roomy. [Obs.]

No roomer harbour in the place.
--Chaucer.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
room

Old English rum "space" (extent or time); "scope, opportunity," from Proto-Germanic *ruman (cognates: Old Norse, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic rum, German Raum "space," Dutch ruim "hold of a ship, nave"), nouns formed from Germanic adjective *ruma- "roomy, spacious," from PIE root *reue- (1) "to open; space" (cognates: Avestan ravah- "space," Latin rus "open country," Old Irish roi, roe "plain field," Old Church Slavonic ravinu "level," Russian ravnina "a plain"). Old English also had a frequent adjective rum "roomy, wide, long, spacious."\n

\nOriginal sense preserved in make room "clear space for oneself" (late 14c.); meaning "chamber, cabin" first recorded early 14c. as a nautical term, and first applied mid-15c. to chambers within houses. The Old English word for this was cofa, ancestor of cove. Room-service is attested from 1913; room-temperature from 1879. Roomth "sufficient space" (1530s) now is obsolete.

room

"to occupy rooms" (especially with another) as a lodger," 1828, from room (n.). Related: Roomed; rooming. Rooming-house is from 1889. In Old English (rumian) and Middle English the verb meant "become clear of obstacles; make clear of, evict."

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Wiktionary
room

Etymology 1

  1. (context dialectal or obsolete English) wide; spacious; roomy. Etymology 2

    adv. 1 (context dialectal or obsolete English) far; at a distance; wide in space or extent. 2 (context nautical English) Off from the wind. Etymology 3

    n. 1 (label en now rare) opportunity or scope (to do something). (from 9th c.) 2 (label en uncountable) Space ''for'' something, or ''to'' carry out an activity. (from 10th c.) (jump space s t) 3 (label en archaic) A particular portion of space. (from 11th c.) 4 (label en uncountable figuratively) Sufficient space (term: for) or (term: to) ''do'' something. (from 15th c.) 5 (label en nautical) A space between the timbers of a ship's frame. (from 15th c.) 6 (label en countable) A separate part of a building, enclosed by walls, a floor and a ceiling. (from 15th c.) (jump part of a building s t) v

  2. To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant.

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WordNet
room

v. live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house" [syn: board]

room

  1. n. 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"

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Wikipedia
Room (disambiguation)

A room is a distinguishable space within a structure.

Room may also refer to:

Room (Chinese constellation)

The Room mansion (房宿, pinyin: Fáng Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the eastern mansions of the Azure Dragon.

Room (album)

Room is the second solo album (third overall album) of singer-songwriter and actress Katey Sagal. It was originally released on June 1, 2004 by the record label Valley Entertainment.

Room

A room is any distinguishable space within a structure. Usually, a room is separated from other spaces or passageways by interior walls; moreover, it is separated from outdoor areas by an exterior wall, sometimes with a door. Historically the use of rooms dates at least to early Minoan cultures about 2200 BC, where excavations on Santorini, Greece at Akrotiri reveal clearly defined rooms within certain structures.

Room (magazine)

Room (formerly Room of One's Own) is a Canadian quarterly literary journal that features the work of emerging and established women and genderqueer writers and artists. Launched in Vancouver in 1975 by the West Coast Feminist Literary Magazine Society, or the Growing Room Collective, the journal has published an estimated 3,000 women, serving as an important launching pad for emerging writers. Currently, Room publishes short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, art, feature interviews, and features that promote dialogue between readers, writers and the collective, including "Roommate" (a profile of a Room reader or collective member) and "The Back Room" (back page interviews on feminist topics of interest). Collective members are regular participants in literary and arts festivals in Greater Vancouver and Toronto.

Room (novel)

Room is a 2010 novel by Irish-Canadian author Emma Donoghue. The story is told from the perspective of a five-year-old boy, Jack, who is being held captive in a small room along with his mother. Donoghue conceived the story after hearing about five-year-old Felix in the Fritzl case.

The novel was longlisted for the 2011 Orange Prize and won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers' Prize regional prize (Caribbean and Canada); was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010 and was shortlisted for the 2010 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the 2010 Governor General's Awards.

The film adaptation, also titled Room, was released in November 2015, starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay and was nominated for four Academy Awards, with Larson winning the Academy Award for Best Actress.

Room (2005 film)

Room is a 2005 independent drama film written and directed by Kyle Henry and starring Cyndi Williams. An overworked, middle-aged Texas woman embezzles from her employer and abandons her family to seek out a mysterious room that has been appearing to her in visions during seizure-like attacks.

Room (2015 film)

Room is a 2015 Canadian-Irish independent drama film directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Emma Donoghue, based on her novel of the same name. The film stars Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, and William H. Macy. Held captive for seven years in an enclosed space, a woman (Larson) and her 5-year-old son (Tremblay) finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.

Room premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 4, 2015 and had a limited release in the United States on October 16, 2015, to acclaim from critics. Larson won multiple awards for her performance, including the Academy Award for Best Actress, the BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award. Room also received three other Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director.

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Usage examples of "room".

The belly shimmered and disappeared, and through it Alexander could see a large room with a vaulted window, opening on to a night-dark sky ablaze with stars.

The scene I cannot describe--I should faint if I tried it, for there is madness in a room full of classified charnel things, with blood and lesser human debris almost ankle-deep on the slimy floor, and with hideous reptilian abnormalities sprouting, bubbling, and baking over a winking bluish-green spectre of dim flame in a far corner of black shadows.

On October 9, 2000, Liysa arrived at a hospital emergency room with a bruised eye and abrasions on her knee.

Dottie stood up from her hiding place behind an overturned sofa across the room, and made her way across the smashed lights and broken video equipment to his side, absently reloading from her bandoleer.

Their theory is confirmed by the cases in which two mixed substances occupy a greater space than either singly, especially a space equal to the conjoined extent of each: for, as they point out, in an absolute interpenetration the infusion of the one into the other would leave the occupied space exactly what it was before and, where the space occupied is not increased by the juxtaposition, they explain that some expulsion of air has made room for the incoming substance.

Late-night cafes inNew Yorkwere apparently so familiar with this procedure that waiters and other diners would smile indulgently at Benzedrine abusers when they picked up the smell of menthol across the room.

Every external wall or enclosing wall of habitable rooms or their appurtenances or cellars which abuts against the earth shall be protected by materials impervious to moisture to the satisfaction of the district surveyor.

The room was abuzz with lesser courtiers trying to take their first step on the long and slippery ladder to preferment and office.

The Academician left the room, returning a minute later with a folder.

Beside myself with rage, blushing for very shame, seeing but too late the fault I had committed by accepting the society of a scoundrel, I went up to my room, and hurriedly packed up my carpet-bag.

Ethernet jacks installed in conference rooms, the cafeteria, training centers, or other areas accessible to visitors shall be filtered to prevent unauthorized access by visitors to the corporate computer systems.

And Granny Aching wrapped this silence around herself and made room inside it for Tiffany.

She glanced round the room again, achingly trying not to focus on Robert and yet helpless to stop herself from focusing on him, from wondering whom he was with.

Azareel went inside to purchase rooms while Acies led the horses to the stable.

It still reverberated, though Ilna had noticed that the acoustics of this great square room were wretchedly bad.