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chair
[ chair ]
noun
- a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
- something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair:
The two men clasped hands to make a chair for their injured companion.
- a seat of office or authority.
- a position of authority, as of a judge, professor, etc.
- the person occupying a seat of office, especially the chairperson of a meeting:
The speaker addressed the chair.
- (in an orchestra) the position of a player, assigned by rank; desk:
first clarinet chair.
- the chair, Informal. electric chair.
- (in reinforced-concrete construction) a device for maintaining the position of reinforcing rods or strands during the pouring operation.
- a glassmaker's bench having extended arms on which a blowpipe is rolled in shaping glass.
- British Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like.
verb (used with object)
- to place or seat in a chair.
- to install in office.
- to preside over; act as chairperson of:
to chair a committee.
- British. to carry (a hero or victor) aloft in triumph.
verb (used without object)
- to preside over a meeting, committee, etc.
chair
/ ³Ùʃɛə /
noun
- a seat with a back on which one person sits, typically having four legs and often having arms
- an official position of authority
a chair on the board of directors
- the person chairing a debate or meeting
the speaker addressed the chair
- a professorship
the chair of German
- railways an iron or steel cradle bolted to a sleeper in which the rail sits and is locked in position
- short for sedan chair
- in the chairchairing a debate or meeting
- take the chairto preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
- the chairan informal name for electric chair
verb
- to preside over (a meeting)
- to carry aloft in a sitting position after a triumph or great achievement
- to provide with a chair of office
- to install in a chair
Gender Note
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
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- ³Ü²Ô·³¦³ó²¹¾±°ù verb (used with object)
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of chair1
Idioms and Phrases
- get the chair, to be sentenced to die in the electric chair.
- take the chair,
- to begin or open a meeting.
- to preside at a meeting; act as chairperson.
More idioms and phrases containing chair
see musical chairs .Example Sentences
Since then, in a sign of the US stepping back from European security matters, Healey has taken over as chair.
She was found guilty of gross misconduct and dismissed without notice at a hearing chaired by Chief Constable Sarah Crew earlier.
The guests and I are seated on blanketed chairs, in-the-round inside a horse paddock.
Consumers have not yet recovered since pandemic-era inflation peaked in mid-2022, and tariffs are unlikely to help, said Jerome H. Powell, Federal Reserve chair.
Returning to death sentences is “a terrible idea,†Michael Romano, a Stanford law professor and chair of the California Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code, told me, and I couldn’t agree more.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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