reception
/ɹiˈsɛpʃən/, /ɹɪˈsɛpʃən/
nounthe area usually at a hotel entrance where guests and visitors go to book a room or check in
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1. Its reception thus provides a measure of difference in medieval aesthetics, theology, and piety.
2. The reception sucks though.
3. My cellphone has no reception.
4. This one arguably has better reception.
5. Hendrik Witbooi’s descendants are attending the reception.
lift
/ˈɫɪft/
nouna box-like device that goes up and down and is used to get to the different floors of a building
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1. Unfortunately, a judge lifted that consent decree in 2018.
2. Lifting some weights?
3. My grandfather could lift a horse.
4. Lift the lid.
5. - Lift the lid.
single room
/sˈɪŋɡəl ɹˈuːm/
nouna hotel room or bedroom used by just one person
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1. We stayed in one of the single rooms and the private cockpit suite upstairs.
2. There's cameras in every single room.
3. And by the way, this time I stayed with six other guys in a single room kitchen.
4. And the destination was a single room in a nunnery, where a woman had gone into lifelong retreat 55 years before.
5. But there's a good reason for that: Chip and Jo don't renovate every single room in the house.
double room
/dˈʌbəl ɹˈuːm/
nouna room in a hotel for two people; a bedroom designed to be used by two people
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1. Is this, this is a double room.
2. In the past, there'd be a letter, or someone would be caught in the act, or a hotel bill for a double room in that suit jacket, that went to the cleaners.
3. But Vegas is billed is one of the cheapest holidays you can take in America, with hotel costs for a double room as low as $20 per night.
bar
/ˈbɑɹ/
nouna place where alcoholic and other drinks and light snacks are sold and served
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1. Supermarkets and other large stores quickly installed machines to scan these bar codes.
2. After a while, companies wanted to find a way to include more information in the bar code.
3. Late Tuesday, a federal judge in Texas barred enforcement of the moratorium.
4. One, two, three. - Bar none.
5. The population mean is often written "x-bar."
ground floor
/ɡɹˈaʊnd flˈoːɹ/
nounthe floor of a building at ground level
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1. And then discover a ground floor room.
2. Ground floor to basement.
3. We got a couple more ground floors.
4. this is the song's ground floor.
5. The baby fell out of the ground floor.
first floor
/fˈɜːst flˈoːɹ/
nounthe floor of a building which has the same level as the street level
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1. Our exhibit is on the first floor.
2. The first floor is 160 square feet.
3. That's the first floor.
4. The basin reached the first floor.
5. The first floor is wall-to-wall handbags.
