CHAIR

Chair

A chair is a piece of furniture with a raised surface used to sit on, commonly used by one person. Chairs are most often supported by four legs and have a back; however, a chair can have three legs or could have a different shape.

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chair

Noun

  1. An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
  2. Chairperson.
  3. The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
  4. Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.
  5. One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
  6. The electric chair.
  7. A distinguished professorship at a university.
  8. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
  9. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.

Verb

  1. To act as chairperson.
    Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
  2. To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory
  3. To award a chair to the winning poet at a Welsh eisteddfod.
    The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.


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