Room
/ruːm/noun
A part of a building that is enclosed by walls and usually has a door.
Please clean your room before dinner
Often appears as...
- living room
- bedroom
noun
Space that can be used or filled.
Is there room for one more person in the car?
Often appears as...
- room for improvement
- make room
noun
An opportunity or scope for something to happen or be done.
There's room for interpretation in the law
Often appears as...
- room for debate
- room for negotiation
verb
To occupy a room or rooms; reside.
We roomed together in college
Often appears as...
- room together
- room with
noun
A part of a building that is enclosed by walls and usually has a door.
Please clean your room before dinner
Often appears as...
- living room
- bedroom
noun
Space that can be used or filled.
Is there room for one more person in the car?
Often appears as...
- room for improvement
- make room
noun
An opportunity or scope for something to happen or be done.
There's room for interpretation in the law
Often appears as...
- room for debate
- room for negotiation
verb
To occupy a room or rooms; reside.
We roomed together in college
Often appears as...
- room together
- room with
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Pro Tip 1/3Type of Rooms
Different rooms have specific names based on their use, like 'kitchen' for cooking.
After dinner, we all went to the living room to watch a movie.
Pro Tip 2/3Common Adjectives
Adjectives describing size and quality are often used with 'room', like 'spacious' or 'cozy'.
She was very proud of her spacious room.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Differences
In some cultures, certain rooms have traditional meanings, such as a 'tatami room' in Japan.
Guests were impressed by the traditional décor of the tatami room.
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The Infinite Hotel...
What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more, the scenarios faced by the ever-diligent and maybe too hospitable night manager serve to remind us of just how hard it is for our relatively finite minds
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Your body language may...
So you have people who are like caricatures of alphas, really coming into the room, they get right into the middle of the room before class even starts, like they really want to occupy space. When they sit down, they're sort of spread out. They raise their hands like this. You have other people who are virtually collapsing
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Baby Octopuses Hunting PIPE...
of cephalopod life that group of animals that includes octopuses cuttlefish and squid exactly so how's everything going over there because i've never kept an octopus in my living room before you want to take a look at the setup yeah i'd love to all right let's see if i can get the computer over there and
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What happens during a...
If you have access to emergency medical services, call them. They're the fastest way to get to a hospital. Taking aspirin, which thins the blood, and nitroglycerin, which opens up the artery, can help keep the heart attack from getting worse. In the emergency room, doctors can diagnose a heart attack.
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Can you solve the virus...
unless you look at the rules carefully and notice an important exception. It's true that once you activate the switch in a contaminated room, it's destroyed and you can never go back. But there's one room that wasn't contaminated - the entrance.
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Is there a disease that...
Some recent studies even contradict the idea. Regardless, toxoplasma has definitely benefited from humans to become one of the world's most successful parasites. It's not just our willingness to let cats on our dining room tables or in our beds.
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Giving checkmate is...
room behind closed doors I very much wanted to go in to that room but it was forbidden for me as my parents told me you can enter once you learn how to play chess so obviously I was very motivated to learn the game in the beginning it
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Will we ever be able to...
And remember, never say never. In a little over a century, mankind has advanced from an uncertain new understanding of the behavior of electrons at the atomic scale to reliably teleporting them across a room.
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NASA Trailblazer:...
became what was known then as a as a computer or a calculator or human computer courage is just one of many words that describe this woman being the first woman in the room of all
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Rethinking infidelity...
Is it a hookup, a love story, paid sex, a chat room, a massage with a happy ending? Why do we think that men cheat out of boredom and fear of intimacy,
Video examples
The Infinite Hotel...
What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more, the scenarios faced by the ever-diligent and maybe too hospitable night manager serve to remind us of just how hard it is for our relatively finite minds
Video examples
Your body language may...
So you have people who are like caricatures of alphas, really coming into the room, they get right into the middle of the room before class even starts, like they really want to occupy space. When they sit down, they're sort of spread out. They raise their hands like this. You have other people who are virtually collapsing
Video examples
Baby Octopuses Hunting PIPE...
of cephalopod life that group of animals that includes octopuses cuttlefish and squid exactly so how's everything going over there because i've never kept an octopus in my living room before you want to take a look at the setup yeah i'd love to all right let's see if i can get the computer over there and
Video examples
What happens during a...
If you have access to emergency medical services, call them. They're the fastest way to get to a hospital. Taking aspirin, which thins the blood, and nitroglycerin, which opens up the artery, can help keep the heart attack from getting worse. In the emergency room, doctors can diagnose a heart attack.
Video examples
Can you solve the virus...
unless you look at the rules carefully and notice an important exception. It's true that once you activate the switch in a contaminated room, it's destroyed and you can never go back. But there's one room that wasn't contaminated - the entrance.
Video examples
Is there a disease that...
Some recent studies even contradict the idea. Regardless, toxoplasma has definitely benefited from humans to become one of the world's most successful parasites. It's not just our willingness to let cats on our dining room tables or in our beds.
Video examples
Giving checkmate is...
room behind closed doors I very much wanted to go in to that room but it was forbidden for me as my parents told me you can enter once you learn how to play chess so obviously I was very motivated to learn the game in the beginning it
Video examples
Will we ever be able to...
And remember, never say never. In a little over a century, mankind has advanced from an uncertain new understanding of the behavior of electrons at the atomic scale to reliably teleporting them across a room.
Video examples
NASA Trailblazer:...
became what was known then as a as a computer or a calculator or human computer courage is just one of many words that describe this woman being the first woman in the room of all
Video examples
Rethinking infidelity...
Is it a hookup, a love story, paid sex, a chat room, a massage with a happy ending? Why do we think that men cheat out of boredom and fear of intimacy,
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Melania Trump
American First Lady
I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile... Be their friend and parent as well. When they're in trouble, they will come to you first. Don't try to change their opinion.
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Douglas Adams
English Writer
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.
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Denzel Washington
American Actor
When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
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Richard Bach
American Novelist
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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Jimi Hendrix
American Musician
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
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Tyler Perry
American Actor
I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.
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Dr. Seuss
American Writer
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
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David Beckham
English Footballer
There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.
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Emmanuel Adebayor
Athlete
I have never been a bad influence in the dressing room.
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Melania Trump
American First Lady
I think is important to give a child room to make mistakes in order to learn. Mistakes build wings so later in life they can fly and go on their own. Let them fall once in awhile... Be their friend and parent as well. When they're in trouble, they will come to you first. Don't try to change their opinion.
Quote examples
Douglas Adams
English Writer
I have rooms full of little dongly things and don't want any more. Half the little dongly things I've got, I don't even know what gizmo they're for. More importantly, half the gizmos I've got, I don't know where their little dongly thing is.
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Denzel Washington
American Actor
When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
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Richard Bach
American Novelist
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.
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Jimi Hendrix
American Musician
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
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Tyler Perry
American Actor
I think it's important to show a husband and a wife together, in a room, raising children, because you don't see that anymore.
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Dr. Seuss
American Writer
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
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David Beckham
English Footballer
There's room for boys' and girls' football in the world-that's what I believe.
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Emmanuel Adebayor
Athlete
I have never been a bad influence in the dressing room.
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