room

noun (room, rooms; room — uncountable for «space»); verb (room — rare, to share a room)

«room» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

A room is a part of a building with walls, a floor and a ceiling, like a kitchen or a bedroom. tree →
Room means free space for someone or something. tree →
«Room for» can mean a chance, as in «room for improvement». tree →

In the lessons

a place or an equal group: rooms with some chairs or people each; or space left; rectangle rooms have area and perimeter; phrases «living room», «make room», «no room», «room for one more», «classroom»

Examples

The hotel has 20 rooms. tree →
Each room has 2 beds. tree →
There are 30 students in the room. tree →
Is there room for 5 more? tree →
Please tidy your room. tree →
Make room for Grandma on the sofa. tree →
The room is 12 feet long and 10 feet wide. tree →
There's no room in the car for the dog. tree →
Our school has a music room. tree →
Your writing is good, but there is room for improvement. tree →
But how light the room was! tree →

Note

A group or a place: rooms × things each. Trap: «room for N more» means space left, not a count of rooms. «Room» meaning space is uncountable: «some room», «not much room».

In Jewish tradition

Room means a space or lodging place; the ark had many rooms, called "nests" in the Hebrew.

Interpretation. Tradition pictures the ark's rooms as pens for the animals and quarters for Noah's family during the Flood.

Examples

Is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?' (Torah GEN.24.23, JPS 1917) tree →
She said moreover unto him: 'We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in.' (Torah GEN.24.25, JPS 1917) tree →
Make thee an ark of gopher wood; with rooms shalt thou make the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. (Torah GEN.6.14, JPS 1917) tree →
A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men. (Writings PRO.18.16, JPS 1917) tree →
And do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put governors in their room: (Prophets 1KI.20.24, JPS 1917) tree →
God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.' (Prophets 2SA.19.14, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

A group or a place: rooms × things each. Trap: «room for N more» means space left, not a count of rooms. «Room» meaning space is uncountable: «some room», «not much room».

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «room» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«room» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «room» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«room» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.

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