to give room

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to give room - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Room \Room\ (r[=oo]m), n. [OE. roum, rum, space, AS. r[=u]m;
     akin to OS., OFries. & Icel. r[=u]m, D. ruim, G. raum, OHG.
     r[=u]m, Sw. & Dan. rum, Goth. r[=u]ms, and to AS. r[=u]m,
     adj., spacious, D. ruim, Icel. r[=u]mr, Goth. r[=u]ms; and
     prob. to L. rus country (cf. Rural), Zend rava[.n]h wide,
     free, open, ravan a plain.]
     1. Unobstructed spase; space which may be occupied by or
        devoted to any object; compass; extent of place, great or
        small; as, there is not room for a house; the table takes
        up too much room.
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              Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet
              there is room.                        --Luke xiv.
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              There was no room for them in the inn. --Luke ii. 7.
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     2. A particular portion of space appropriated for occupancy;
        a place to sit, stand, or lie; a seat.
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              If he have but twelve pence in his purse, he will
              give it for the best room in a playhouse.
                                                    --Overbury.
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              When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit
              not down in the highest room.         --Luke xiv. 8.
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     3. Especially, space in a building or ship inclosed or set
        apart by a partition; an apartment or chamber.
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              I found the prince in the next room.  --Shak.
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     4. Place or position in society; office; rank; post; station;
        also, a place or station once belonging to, or occupied
        by, another, and vacated. [Obs.]
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              When he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea in
              the room of his father Herod.         --Matt. ii.
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              Neither that I look for a higher room in heaven.
                                                    --Tyndale.
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              Let Bianca take her sister's room.    --Shak.
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     5. Possibility of admission; ability to admit; opportunity to
        act; fit occasion; as, to leave room for hope.
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              There was no prince in the empire who had room for
              such an alliance.                     --Addison.
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     Room and space (Shipbuilding), the distance from one side
        of a rib to the corresponding side of the next rib; space
        being the distance between two ribs, in the clear, and
        room the width of a rib.
  
     To give room, to withdraw; to leave or provide space
        unoccupied for others to pass or to be seated.
  
     To make room, to open a space, way, or passage; to remove
        obstructions; to give room.
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              Make room, and let him stand before our face.
                                                    --Shak.
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     Syn: Space; compass; scope; latitude.
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