A midmorning break at Eton College.
chambers
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for chambers.
Editorial note
There are multiple chambers of commerce [centralpachamber.com, njchamber.com] so perhaps the intent is to differentiate them?
Quick take
A midmorning break at Eton College.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of chambers gathered in one view.
A surname.
A township in Temagami municipality, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for chambers.
noun
A midmorning break at Eton College.
noun
A surname.
noun
A township in Temagami municipality, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada.
noun
An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
Example sentences
There are multiple chambers of commerce [centralpachamber.com, njchamber.com] so perhaps the intent is to differentiate them?
Swiss people, who have all law-making authority here Law making is done by the two chambers of parliament, National- and Ständerat.
Reddit culture is downright unlikeable since the entire reason that site seems to exist is to foster echo chambers and cliquish behavior.
Enter echo chambers if you want to, but don't live in one.
When you destroy the centrality of reddit, even if by cutting out really bad stuff, you encourage the sharding of the web into isolated echo chambers.
Lying could almost, literally be defined as: 'the ability to stroke the political and emotional biases of people through distortion and disinformation in self-serving echo chambers'.
I've always heard them called sensory deprivation chambers.
Sorry, how did 'the ability to stroke the political and emotional biases of people through distortion and disinformation in self-serving echo chambers' not exist (and in even worse form) when you could lie?
Gas chambers are one of the hardest problems for historians to explain and the most prominent researcher in this area, Jean-Claude Pressac, has switched between mainstream and revisionism a few times because of that.
Part of the problem is that close-knit extremist groups tend to cut themselves off and form echo-chambers that pressure the members to conform, and exclude anyone that criticises them either directly or by labelling them as someone to disregard (see gamergate's use of SJW, or scientology's use of SP).
Whatever you lose in the capability to lie for immediate personal merit you gain in the ability to stroke the political and emotional biases of people through distortion and disinformation in self-serving echo chambers that they have no desire to escape from.
Even though you're right that most laws are passed by the chambers, the people still have the power to put them up for voting (or put a second law up for voting that invalidates the first) by just gathering a couple of thousand signatures.
Quote examples
They now run an "accreditation" program for local chambers of commerce, some of which have membership that would hold divergent views.
And even if we accept your much more limited version of what a holocaust denier is - "the holocaust happened but the gas chambers didn't" - well, that's wrong too.
In any case, just using myself as an example -- I've found that I become more and more sensitive and easily offended the more I involve myself and try to find disagreeable things (see: online echo chambers centred around a common identity of "the other side is bad/laughable/hurtful!").
Proper noun examples
Kaiser, Jewish 25 Philip Knight, Athiest/Agnostic 26 Sheldon Adelson, Jewish 26 Anne Cox Chambers, Inheritance 28 Jeffrey Bezos, Jewish 29 James Simons, Jewish 30 Dan Duncan,?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use chambers in a sentence?
There are multiple chambers of commerce [centralpachamber.com, njchamber.com] so perhaps the intent is to differentiate them?
What does chambers mean?
A midmorning break at Eton College.
What part of speech is chambers?
chambers is commonly used as noun.