What is "to give 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.