chair

IPA: tʃˈɛr

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.]

(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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