What does "credenza" mean? What does "ambient" mean?

Answer 1

credenza:A buffet, sideboard, or bookcase, especially one without legs.
A piece of office furniture having a long flat top and often containing file drawers, a kneehole, and accessories for a computer.
ambient:Surrounding; encircling: ambient sound; ambient air.

Answer 2

A credenza is a sideboard, usually placed against the wall. It may have drawers or cabinet space with doors.

Ambient means something that is in the surrounding area such ambient noise or ambient light.

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Answer 3

Credenza:
1. a sideboard or buffet, esp. one without legs.
2. a closed cabinet for papers, office supplies, etc., often of desk height and matching the other furniture in an executive's office.

Ambient:
1. of the surrounding area or environment
2. completely surrounding; encompassing

Answer 4

A credenza is a longish side table that has some cupboards in it for storage.

"Ambient" means in the background. In movies, when the actors are doing a scene, the background noise (birds chirping, horns honking, etc.) is called "ambient noise."

Answer 5

A credenza is a sideboard, buffet table, or bookcase. Usually without legs.

Ambient means present on all sides. Such as "ambient noise" means it is coming from all over.

Answer 6

What Does Credenza Mean

Answer 7

The 1st one I don't know but the 2nd one is the environment arround sth.For example in examining a Heat Transfer problem when we want to discuss the properties and condition of the media arround a certain object we say "ambiant's condition".i.e if you want to see the temprature changes of a small metal in a room ,the room is the ambient.

Answer 8

http://www.onelook.com/?w=credenza&ls=a
http://www.onelook.com/?w=ambient&ls=a

Answer 9

They are both Italian words.

There was a Francesco "Frankie the knife" Credenza
I believe in the book "The Godfather" as well.