chair

IPA: tʃˈɛr

noun

  • An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
  • (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
  • (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
  • (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
  • (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
  • A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
  • The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
  • (often with definite article) Chairperson.
  • (fandom slang) The ship of characters Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf of the Gossip Girl series.
  • (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson. [A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.]
  • (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”). [A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.]

verb

  • (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
  • (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
  • (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
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Examples of "chair" in Sentences

  • I am sitting on a chair.
  • The carriage hangs beneath the seat of the chair.
  • The carriage is hung beneath the seat of the chair.
  • He is the chair of the charismatic evangelical Round Table.
  • Tables, chairs, crockery and cutlery are available for hire.
  • The force of the chair against the seat of your pants is a g force.
  • A man should be sitting in the chair and smile of unspeakable happiness.
  • In a sudden squeak of the chair, I found the person who was sitting in it.
  • The garage sale selled salon chairs, draperies, table lamps, and bric a brac.
  • The chair did have a reclining seat, but you have to manually recline the chair.

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