chairs

[chair]

A chair is a seat with four legs and a back to lean against. When you invite a large group for dinner, you have to make sure you find chairs for all of your guests.

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A movable single seat with a back.

Noun
the position of professor; "he was awarded an endowed chair in economics"

Noun
a seat for one person, with a support for the back; "he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down"

Noun
an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair; "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"

Noun
the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson"

Verb
preside over; "John moderated the discussion"

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Verb
act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years"


n.
A movable single seat with a back.

n.
An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

n.
The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

n.
A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.

n.
An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

v. t.
To place in a chair.

v. t.
To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.


Chair

Chair , n. [OE. chaiere, chaere, OF. chaiere, chaere, F. chaire pulpit, fr. L. cathedra chair, armchair, a teacher's or professor's chair, Gr. down + seat, to sit, akin to E. sit. See Sit, and cf. Cathedral, chaise.] 1. A movable single seat with a back. 2. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.
The chair of a philosophical school.
A chair of philology.
3. The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair. 4. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig. Shak.
Think what an equipage thou hast in air, And view with scorn two pages and a chair.
5. An iron blok used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers. Chair days, days of repose and age. -- To put into the chair, to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting. Macaulay. -- To take the chair, to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.

Chair

Chair, v. t. [imp. & p. pr. Chaired ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chairing.] 1. To place in a chair. 2. To carry publicly in a chair in triumph. [Eng.]

A movable single seat with a back.

To place in a chair.

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Usage Examples

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

Giving birth was the most amazing thing I've ever done. I'd been living in a Third World country, and I said, 'I'm going to just squat behind a tree.' I basically did that but in a chair in my living room. I didn't want a sterile hospital room. I didn't want doctors. I had a midwife.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn't as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.

I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I was walking along and this chair came flying past me, and another, and another, and I thought, man, is this gonna be a good night.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I have had national security background, 10 years on the Intelligence Committee, the last two years as chair.

We've been sitting at the compromise table for a long time. We're just waiting for that cold chair to be warmed up by the Republican leadership. They still have time to do the right thing and be responsible. They just seem to be moving further and further away from it.

I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

I'm so proud to represent the people of South Florida. I was so honored when President Obama asked me to serve as chair of the Democratic Party. But there's one job I'm even more proud of, and that's being a mom to my three kids, Rebecca, Jake and Shelby.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair.

Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.

Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

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