chamber vs stuffing box

stuffing box vs chamber

chamber and stuffing box both are nouns.

chamber is a verb but stuffing box is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chamber	Yes	No	Yes	No
stuffing box	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, stuffing box is a hyponym of chamber; that is, stuffing box is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than chamber:

chamber: a natural or artificial enclosed space
stuffing box: a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal

Other hyponyms of chamber include air lock, airlock, air-raid shelter, bomb shelter, bombproof, burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture, caisson, cofferdam, pneumatic caisson, camera obscura, core, cylinder, piston chamber, firing chamber, gun chamber, furnace, hyperbaric chamber, particle detector, cavity resonator, resonating chamber, resonator, steam chest, fireroom, stokehold, stokehole, packing box, tokamak, vacuum chamber.

chamber (noun)	stuffing box (noun)
a natural or artificial enclosed space	a small chamber in which packing is compressed around a reciprocating shaft or piston to form a seal
a room used primarily for sleeping
a room where a judge transacts business
an enclosed volume in the body
a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly

chamber (verb)	stuffing box (verb)
place in a chamber

Difference between chamber and stuffing box

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