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.

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.
Points to note. 'her' chair is code for 'the nearest chair to her desk'.
A new concept chair has surfaced, and I use the term chair loosely here.
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.
Now the old fellow is in the barber’s chair text reads _barbar’s chair_] *****
The chair did have a reclining seat, but you have to manually recline the chair.
[ELFIE _leads_ LAURA _over to armchair, places muff, &c., in chair, and sits_ LAURA _down in chair_.
President of the United States; and Mr* Gregg was requested to take the chair; and The amendment reported by the select com* mittee having been agreed to; the President resumed the chair*