chapel
n. திருக்கோட்டம், தனிப்பட்ட தொழுகையிடம், சிறிய துணைத்திருக்கோயில், கோயில் வீடு, மனைவழிபாட்டிடம், நிறுவனங்களின் கோயில் மனை, கல்லறைக் கூடத்திலுள்ள தொழுமிடம், திருக்கோயிலில் தனிப் பலிபீடம் கொண்ட சிறு அறை, நாட்டுத் திருச்சபையினின்றும் வேறுபட்ட நெறியினர் தொழுமிடம், தனித் திருக்கோட்ட வழிபாடு, பாடகர்குழு, பல்லியம், அச்சு அலுவலகம், நாளச்சுத் தொழிலாளர்கள் சங்கம், நாளச்சுத் தொழிலாளர்கள் கூட்டம்.
Chap"el, n. Etym: [OF. chapele, F. chapelle, fr. LL. capella, orig., a short cloak, hood, or cowl; later, a reliquary, sacred vessel, chapel; dim. of cappa, capa, cloak, cape, cope; also, a covering for the head. The chapel where St. Martin's cloak was preserved as a precious relic, itself came to be called capella, whence the name was applied to similar paces of worship, and the guardian of this cloak was called capellanus, or chaplain. See Cap, and cf. Chaplain., Chaplet.] 1. A subordinate place of worship; as, (a) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial; (b) a small building attached to a church; (c) a room or recess in a church, containing an altar. Note: In Catholic churches, and also in cathedrals and abbey churches, chapels are usually annexed in the recesses on the sides of the aisles. Gwilt. 2. A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison. 3. In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse. 4. A choir of singers, or an orchastra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman. 5. (Print.) (a) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey. (b) An association of workmen in a printing office. Chapel of ease. (a) A chapel or dependent church built for the ease or a accommodation of an increasing parish, or for parishioners who live at a distance from the principal church. (b) A privy. (Law) -- Chapel master, a director of music in a chapel; the director of a court or orchestra. -- To build a chapel (Naut.), to chapel a ship. See Chapel, v. t., 2. -- To hold a chapel, to have a meeting of the men employed in a printing office, for the purpose of considering questions affecting their interests. Chap"el, v. t. 1. To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. 2. (Naut.) Defn: To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.