ROOM

Meaning of ROOM in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a breakfast table/room

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The house has a large kitchen and a breakfast room.

a fitness room

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Other facilities in the hotel include a fitness room and a sauna.

a hospital ward/room

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nurses working on hospital wards

a hotel room

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She was watching TV in her hotel room.

a laundry room

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There's a washing machine in the laundry room.

a lecture hall/room ( also a lecture theatre British English )

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The lecture hall was packed.

ample room/space etc

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She found ample room for her things in the wardrobe.

at room temperature

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Store the wine at room temperature.

attic room

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a small attic room

baggage room

be (little/no) room for optimism (= have a possibility that things might get better )

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There is little room for optimism in the current financial situation.

boiler room

book a room/hotel

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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

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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

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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

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There wasn’t enough leg room.

living room

locker room

lumber room

men's room

morning room

no room for complacency

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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

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Sam stood up and paced the floor, deep in thought.

powder room

rec room

reception room

recovery room

recreation ground/area/room

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a recreation area for children to play in

recreation room

rest room

room and board

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You’ll receive free room and board with the job.

room for improvement (= the possibility that something could be done better )

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There's room for improvement in the way the tickets are sold.

room service

room temperature

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The wine should be served at room temperature.

rooming house

room/scope for disagreement (= the possibility that people will disagree about something )

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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 )

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There was standing room only in the courthouse.

standing room

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There was standing room only no seats were left in the courthouse.

steam room

suite of rooms

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a suite of rooms for palace guests

take up space/room

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old books that were taking up space in the office

the sick room (= the room where a sick person is )

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She had spent the last hour in her mother’s sick room.

the staff room British English (= a room for teachers in a school )

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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

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In my father's house, I took the back room .

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In spite of the circumstances, the mood there in the back room was far from somber, though.

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Fights can take place anywhere, from the back room of a pub to a municipal hall.

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Foaming schooners, free lunch, fish fry Fridays, poker in the back room , arguments settled in the alley.

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She was in a cot in the back room with a row of night-lights set along the floor.

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The other four victims found in the back room or office were nude.

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The vicar left his position near the soldier, and disappeared into a back room .

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Most of the girls were already in the back room smoking with Coughlin.

comfortable

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All the comfortable rooms sleep two and are of a high standard with private shower and W.C; most have a balcony.

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Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.

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We visited one day in her comfortable room at the Research Center.

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They saw a warm, comfortable room with a good fire burning in the fireplace and a few papers on the big table.

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There is a comfortable sitting room , with beams and an inglenook fireplace with bricks worn down by centuries of knife sharpening.

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The comfortable rooms all enjoy an en-suite shower/WC.

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The kitchen was a homely, comfortable room .

dining

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The medical staff dining room was almost empty, and the last group of people were just leaving.

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He looked over the women in the ship's dining room , just checking, a few glanced his way.

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Access to the dining room in the north-east corner of the main block was then made via a short flight of stairs.

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He was like a kid making his camp under the dining room table with some blankets and pillows.

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Ensure that cutlery which has been cleaned using chemicals gets a thorough washing before going back into the dining room .

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Fifteen serving staff work in the main refectory with four waitresses in the staff dining room .

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Are you going to eat in the living room , dining room or kitchen?

front

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Patrick followed Ben Travers into his front room .

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Roland Major sat in the middle of the front room that had already been cleaned and refused to help.

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I went back into the scullery and opened the adjoining door to the front room .

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The front room was full of everything front rooms were full of when they had the sale after the Festival of Britain.

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When we got there she was lying in the front room .

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An example is one of the strip buildings at Sea Mills, which contained a number of ovens in the front room .

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Would it look more natural to have his father kneeling in the front room ?

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The resort is a short bus ride away and shops and cafés are nearby. Front rooms are larger.

living

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She opened the door to the living room .

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Their gold band design on ivory, white, and black backgrounds is very well suited to living room areas.

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Designer blasts from the past carefully chosen to look nice in a west London living room .

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Willie would return from school to find the living room filled with the musky perfume of freshly-cut branches burning in the range.

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The main living rooms downstairs have low ceilings and are wood beamed.

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Pausing outside his living room door, he switched on the hall light and crouched down on his knees.

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Do they need to look equally at home in kitchen, dining room or living room?

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The damp was creeping into the living room .

single

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Supplements per person per night: Single room £12.40.

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Supplements per person per night: No single room supplements.

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Supplements per person per night: Single room 11 Jul-4 Sep £9.75, All other times £13.25.

sitting

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There was movement in his sitting room , in his kitchen.

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The sitting room had shabby chintz furniture, and faded curtains in the long window alcove.

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A gilt harp sits in the bay window of the sitting room .

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There was nothing, not even that hotel sitting room , to compare.

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He looked round his sitting room .

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Facilities include a cosy sitting room where drinks are served, and a sun terrace.

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There were 8 kitchens, 19 bathrooms, 24 toilets, 11 dining rooms , 17 bedrooms and 21 sitting rooms.

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Lunch went on past three o'clock, when they went to the sun-filled sitting room with coffee and cigars.

spare

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We had tried cycling, skipping and jogging and we both had an exercise bike in the spare room .

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Every spare room became a coveted rental unit.

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He had left the fire on in the spare room .

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Friends offered to let me stay in a spare room or on a couch.

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Back in the spare room there were problems.

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We must furnish our spare room at once if this sort of thing is to happen often.

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Gyggle would store me in a spare room of the hospital and keep me under twenty-four-hour observation while I was unconscious.

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For years, teachers relied on using spare rooms in the Park hospital building.

■ NOUN

conference

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They get summoned into the conference room .

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For years, the supervisors have shared bathrooms and conference rooms and worked in cramped offices.

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He smells of conference rooms and courtrooms.

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The meeting took place a few days later in a hotel conference room .

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In addition to the daily service there are functions in a main function suite and in conference rooms on every floor.

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The massage takes place in conference rooms , where employees relax in massage chairs.

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Large sliding doors open from the oak-floored corridor in the pavilion into the conference rooms .

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The group assembled in the marble-lined conference room for detailed discussions about the columns for the arcade.

control

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In the immediate vicinity, sensitive monitors relay readings back to the central control room .

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Unlike radio, the anchor / readers do not have to be in eye contact with the control room .

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The competition, in its eighth year, was organised by Wytch Farm control room operator Dave Handley.

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You see engineers in the control room .

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A face forced its way through the hatch which led from the control room .

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Most astronomers are enclosed in observing cages or in control rooms for most of the time they are observing.

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A control room operator at Dimlington, he has followed motor racing for years.

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The floor manager is the human lifeline between the talent on the set and the control room .

emergency

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If chest pain occurs report immediately to nearest emergency room .

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At Massachusetts General, William Tisdale was a second-year medical resident in the emergency room .

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A 33-year-old man was brought to the emergency room in coma.

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They were also asked how much total waiting time elapsed between triage and departure from the emergency room .

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In the emergency room he appeared deeply comatose: his eyes were closed and he did not react to noxious stimuli.

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I made my way through a long corridor toward the emergency room .

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Now, with abortion illegal, it was far more dangerous, and many victims ended in hospital emergency rooms .

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It was too quiet for an emergency room , I thought.

guest

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Rex rampant, I thought later in their guest room .

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We removed our gear from our bikes and were ushered into their guest room .

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I fetch another from the guest room .

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He put his handkerchief in his pocket, and looked into the full-length mirror on the back of the guest room door.

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The system provides instantaneous online guest room security control.

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I took a quick look around, then went straight to the guest room .

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Dining/guest rooms Much the same suggestions can apply to a room that also acts as part-time guest room.

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One night, hours after Roland and Mimi had gone to bed, Margarett appeared in the garden outside the guest room .

hotel

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The first, as I was rapidly discovering in his hotel room , is enthusiasm.

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It was your basic small, upscale hotel room .

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But a couple of hours later in his hotel room , he knew, he saw the extent of his madness.

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Kawai's Trilby Cold comforts of a hotel room: the air-conditioning and fridge join forces for a chummy hum, barbershop-style.

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Whaling, Reiniger said from his Palo Alto hotel room , radicalized the black sailors, who traveled the world hunting whales.

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So he set the play in a hotel room , and Frank and Betty Spencer were the honeymoon couple who booked in.

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In that hotel room in Carlsbad, I wondered what I would want in their shoes.

locker

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Rock music boomed from speakers in the locker room .

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At halftime, Oregon up by six, Jess stands alone in the back of the locker room staring her wide-eyed stare.

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Privately, some express worries about the effect of picking transsexuals on locker room morale.

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Their locker room Monday was as jovial as any could be, especially considering their 2-4 record.

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She takes the anger down with her to the locker room , but keeps it close.

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She sits alone in the locker room for a long time, dry-eyed, numb, unthinking.

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That was plainly evident in the locker room , where Hostetler teetered on the brink of openly losing his temper.

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Unfortunately, a row of lockers lined the wall Separating the gym from the locker room , obstructing the view.

reception

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She didn't take him to one of the two formal reception rooms opening off the hall.

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Bernstein went back to the locked reception room through an inner doorway.

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It offers good size accommodation, benefiting from three good bedrooms, two separate reception rooms and partial gas fired central heating.

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He sits in an oversized armchair in a huge reception room equipped with a state-of-the-art video wall.

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The house consisted of two reception rooms , each furnished with black oak monstrosities that created a dark and depressing atmosphere.

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Tommy, as usual, is whispering to Nico hotly when I come through the reception room .

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The reception room was little more than a hall.

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The public reception room was not a welcoming sight.

service

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There is room service and airconditioning.

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We can deliver from room service for $ 4 a bag.

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Watersports Shopping village All rooms and suites have mini-bar and 24 hour room service .

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Economy hotels offer clean, comfortable rooms and front desk services without costly extras like restaurants and room service.

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It does not include travel insurance, wine and drinks with meals and room service .

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My room service breakfast practically leaped through the door.

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These are meals on heels, moving targets, room service .

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There is room service but bedrooms have no minibar or air-conditioning.

temperature

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Remove about an hour before the guests are expected and fill the pineapple shells, then leave to come up to room temperature .

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Cool at room temperature and cut into squares.

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Choosing Choose fruit that's just softening; it will soon ripen at room temperature .

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To serve, cut into wedges and serve warm or at room temperature .

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An air conditioner to maintain normal room temperature is advisable.

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Season buffalo steaks with salt and pepper to taste and let them rest for 1 hour at room temperature .

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Incubation was performed at room temperature for 30 minutes.

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Remove pot from oven and serve right from the pot either warm or at room temperature .

■ VERB

enter

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Anyone entering the room just then would have thought what a very handsome couple they were.

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I passed quickly through the foyer, angled left through the large cathedral-ceilinged living room , entered the dining room.

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The girl opened a door with a Yale key and they entered a dark room .

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The little room could be entered from the living room and from the staircase outside their flat.

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On entering a small seminar room , where a meeting is already under way, the show may take the following complex form.

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Online host: You have entered the Sports Fanz room .

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She ascended the stairs and entered her own room first, but there was no one there.

fill

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Cold glass and cold metal frame filling that room .

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The bright yellow light filled the room like sunshine.

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You may then proceed with filling the room with furnishings.

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The honeysuckle had climbed the back wall of the house and its fragrance filled my old room .

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In the transmitter, infra-red is modulated to carry the analogue sound information which then fills the room .

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Clouds of steam from the dishwasher filled the room when the going got heavy.

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At night he filled the room .

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Nobody would be there with the party filling the other rooms .

leave

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When Kee left the room Conway picked up the telephone.

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However, the author does not leave much room for ambiguity.

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He left the room and in his bed he wept with a violence he had never known before, spasm following spasm.

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Feeling thoroughly disquieted, she left her room in a rush.

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We leave the room feeling let down and the boss, no doubt, feels much the same.

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This does, however, tend to reduce precision and leave room for biases.

move

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She nodded, all the time moving about the room which was in an incredible confusion.

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Faklirti and his family moved into a cement room at the back of the house.

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When I move into the living room , some one is waiting.

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They moved deliberately around the room , never raising their voices.

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All the lights were on and people seemed to be moving about in every room .

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After Mrs Saulitis moved into her own room , the sergeant arrived on Saturday afternoons, packages in his hands.

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Then I went to work in another factory as a machinist and I moved into a room with the child.

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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

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In October the museums and art galleries are less crowded, and there's more elbow room in restaurants.

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Let's sit in a booth. There's more elbow room there.

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They stood in the crowd, fighting for elbow room.

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Give each elbow room to display its fronds.

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It can change the climate enough to give people elbow room to do the right things.

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Mr. Illsley Where would Nottinghamshire county council find the elbow room to which the hon. Gentleman referred?

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Oh come, you must leave even me a little elbow room in which to breathe.

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Packed three or four to a closet-sized room, students can come to envy the elbow room afforded sardines and cosmonauts.

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The belt provides vast material resources, vast amounts of solar power, and vast elbow room.

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The little clearing was shielded from the street by the laurels, and afforded him plenty of elbow room.

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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

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A single room supplement of £8 per person per night applies at hotels indicated.

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Additional night, single room and upgrade prices are available.

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His own family-seven strong-live in a single room in the house.

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Lounge / dining / kitchen areas with seating which converts to a double or two single beds are required.

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One of the important things to take into account when designing single bed Fair Isle patterns is the length of the floats.

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Supplements per person per night: No single room supplement.

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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

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All of the twin rooms and most of the singles have an en-suite shower/WC.

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All the twin rooms are comfortable, and all overlook the attractive courtyard.

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Bedrooms have telephone and twin rooms have a balcony.

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Half board prices are based on twin rooms which can take two extra sofa beds.

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Prices are based on two people sharing a twin room with private facilities.

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Some twin bedrooms which will have a balcony and sea view are available at a supplement.

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Some twin rooms have a balcony.

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The twin bedrooms are airy, spacious and comfortably furnished.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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Amanda, can you clean up your room , please?

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Do you have room for this in your bag?

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He didn't think he had room to pass the car in front.

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Leave room for people to get by.

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There isn't any more room in the closet.

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They had no room to spare in their car, so we had to take a taxi.

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We're on the eighth floor, room 804.

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We can't sit there, there's not enough room .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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He played in his room with the toys, alone.

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I stood in our living room , surrounded by adults, my eyes squeezed closed.

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I went back to my room , trying to forget about my brother.

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In the darkness of that room , I cried for Induk.

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My father sits in the livingroom in front of the television, my brothers in the dining room in silence.

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So grindingly horrible it could clear any room anywhere any time.

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So she stopped off at her floor and hurried along to her room .

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The library consisted of two rooms, but the only entry to the inner room was through the outer.

II. verb