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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | space, range |
| Synonyms: | allowance, area, capacity, chance, clearance, compass, elbowroom, expanse, extent, latitude, leeway, license, margin, occasion, opening, opportunity, place, play, range, reach, rein, rope, scope, sway, sweep, territory, vastness, volume |
| Main Entry: | abide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | live in a certain place |
| Synonyms: | bide, bunk out, bunk, crash*, dwell, hang out*, inhabit, lodge, nest, perch, reside, room, roost, settle, squat, stay |
| Antonyms: | depart, go, leave, migrate, move, reject, resist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | board |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | provide food and sleeping quarters |
| Synonyms: | accommodate, bed, canton, care for, feed, harbor, house, let crash, lodge, put up, quarter, room |
| Notes: | a board is a committee having supervisory powers, a plank, or food served to lodgers - while bored is tired of the world a plank is thicker than a board |
| Antonyms: | turn out |
| Main Entry: | cabin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny house; lodging |
| Synonyms: | berth, box, caboose, camp, chalet, compartment, cot, cottage, crib, deckhouse, home, hovel, hut, lodge, log house, quarters, room, shack, shanty, shed, shelter |
| Main Entry: | capacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | volume; limit of volume held |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, amplitude, bulk, burden, compass, contents, dimensions, expanse, extent, full, holding ability, holding power, latitude, magnitude, mass, measure, proportions, quantity, range, reach, retention, room, scope, size, space, spread, standing room only, sufficiency, sweep |
| Notes: | applied to a person, ability and capacity mean about the same thing but are grammatically different: an ability to do something, a capacity for doing something; ability is qualitative while capacity is quantitative capacity refers to a general ability to comprehend an issue or perform a task; capability implies a reference to one of a set of such abilities |
| Main Entry: | chamber |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small compartment, room |
| Synonyms: | alcove, antechamber, apartment, bedchamber, bedroom, box, case, cavity, cell, chest, container, cubicle, enclosure, flat, hall, hollow, lodging, pocket, room, socket |
| Main Entry: | chat room |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | interaction via computer |
| Synonyms: | data communication channel, live discussion, net event, room |
| Main Entry: | class |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group in school |
| Synonyms: | academy, colloquium, course, course of study, division, form, grade, homeroom, lecture group, line, quiz group, recitation, room, round table, section, seminar, seminary, session, study, study group, subdivision, subject |
| Main Entry: | closet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | storage cupboard, usually tall |
| Synonyms: | ambry, bin, buffet, cabinet, chest of drawers, clothes room, cold storage, container, depository, locker, receptacle, recess, repository, room, safe, sideboard, vault, walk-in, wardrobe |
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