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[chair]

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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.

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(in an orchestra) the position of a player, assigned by rank; desk: first clarinet chair.

the chair, Informal. electric chair.

chairlift.

sedan chair.

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(in reinforced-concrete construction) a device for maintaining the position of reinforcing rods or strands during the pouring operation.

11.

a glassmaker's bench having extended arms on which a blowpipe is rolled in shaping glass.

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British Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like.

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verb (used with object)

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to place or seat in a chair.

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to install in office.

15.

to preside over; act as chairperson of: to chair a committee.

16.

British. to carry (a hero or victor) aloft in triumph.

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verb (used without object)

17.

to preside over a meeting, committee, etc.

Idioms

18.

get the chair, to be sentenced to die in the electric chair.

19.

take the chair,

to begin or open a meeting.

to preside at a meeting; act as chairperson.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English chaiere < Old French < Latin cathedra; see cathedra

Related forms

chair·less, adjective

un·chair, verb (used with object)

Can be confused: chair, chairman, chairperson, chairwoman (see usage note at chairperson).

Usage note
5. See chairperson.

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Example Sentences

Bloomberg took his turn in the witness chair in one of the odder political trials in recent memory.

Invite your department chair to observe your teaching early on in the term.

If he fails to turn up, he risks being represented by an empty chair.

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Bloomberg took his turn in the witness chair in one of the odder political trials in recent memory.

Invite your department chair to observe your teaching early on in the term.

If he fails to turn up, he risks being represented by an empty chair.

The boys take the first jet-powered office chair for its first run on the open road.

Imagine you are almost dozing in a lounge chair outside, with a magazine on your lap.

However, he managed to tip the chair over whereupon all the defendants got up and started fighting with the marshals.

Turn a drab thrift-store chair into a stylish accent for any room in your home.

The chair/stool is more of a comfy thing to lean on than an actual chair to sit on.

The chair offers superior back support that encourages correct posture.

The chair of the search committee explained the job.

Europe seems likely to get its way when the empty chair is filled.

The chair is a milking stool, the bathroom sink an animal trough.

In the next room, a split-screen monitor shows the mother's profile on the left and her infant in a baby chair on the right.

Say, for example, you invent a four-legged swivel chair.

Then she added a rattan chair and table, a water bowl, and garden art.

There's even a rather uncomfortable but cool-looking chair welded from old handlebars.

Some people shut their eyes or clench the arms of their chair when they are watching a horror movie.

Cunningham sat on a wing chair to the left of the fireplace.

Here, black fades into the background and relates to the chair rail," he says.

The door to my right swings open to reveal a large chair bristling with wires and leather straps.

Place a towel on the floor in front of your chair to rest the bowl on and to dry your feet with when you're finished.

The catch was the chair was powered by the wind as he launched his chair attached to helium-filled balloons.

It will even have a bed custom-made to match your favorite chair.

The black chair sits on a round wooden platform in a small, dank room.

The memories will make you a heck of a lot happier than, say, a new wing chair.

Here, a cowhide chair and an abstract painting pick up on the earthy palette.

Kirk's original chair and making them a focal point.

Murphy, the board chair until last month, for the newly created position of senior vice president for affiliated.

He was forced into a chair for four hours while officers ransacked his house.

Strap the boob in a chair and attach a funnel to his mouth and force feed him.

If there is one thing that seems inescapable about summer's backyard barbeques and patio parties, it's the white plastic chair.

Eight months ago, my department chair decided that she hates me.

After thirty seconds the chair said he had received votes from everyone in the room, and that the system was working.

But it is the chair that keeps tempting me, promising some escape into a timeless moment.

The chair is novel if no other patent mentions each of its defining aspects:.

Combine this desktop microwave oven with supermarket delivery and a bucket under your chair and.

One man, big and strong, left the operating chair at the.

The chair had goofed on how many people were allowed on the panel, and one of us had to go.

Imagine living without the gravity that keeps you on your chair and your pencil on your desk.

Seemingly overnight, the one-piece plastic chair has become a world fixture.

For you, kicking back in a camp chair is no vacation.

Relax, lean back in your comfortable chair and join me on a journey.

In my experience, this means that the chair has significant impact on the hiring.

It's free to drop a towel or chair on the beach and settle in with your binoculars.

Some ppl are in a wheel chair their entire lives and it didn't kill them.

Even a single chair set among richly textured plants can make a wonderful place.

The chair is inside a windowless box at one end of a.

The male department chair met me at the baggage claim.

Better to be doing something unique and having a messy life than to sit in a chair doing bloody accounts for a brokerage firm.

Pushed in his wheel chair by a lovely college girl.

The chair had an aluminum frame and only seven of those were made.

The new chair was tenured back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and rarely publishes now.

The sunny hue is picked up in the wall art and chair seats.

The chair agrees with chicklet: they could have failed me at the defense and chose not to do so.

Grab a chair on the sidewalk for a front-row seat to the town's comings and goings, or circle around to the big sunny.

It does this by offsetting the seats diagonally: they still point forward, but each chair sits behind its neighbor.

He's shifting awkwardly in his chair as he adjusts his webcam, and.

The chair is perplexed that our division has so many meetings, and that they are so long.

The chair will let you know what hotel and whose name the hotel room is under.

Wilson is chair of the university's department of teacher education.

The student went to the chair to complain and upon sharing my grade calculations with the chair, the latter agreed with me.

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World English Dictionary

chair (tʃɛə)

—n
1.	a seat with a back on which one person sits, typically having four legs and often having arms
2.	an official position of authority: a chair on the board of directors
3.	the person chairing a debate or meeting: the speaker addressed the chair
4.	a professorship: the chair of German
5.	railways an iron or steel cradle bolted to a sleeper in which the rail sits and is locked in position
6.	short for sedan chair
7.	in the chair chairing a debate or meeting
8.	take the chair to preside as chairman for a meeting, etc
9.	the chair an informal name for electric chair

—vb
10.	to preside over (a meeting)
11.	(Brit) to carry aloft in a sitting position after a triumph or great achievement
12.	to provide with a chair of office
13.	to install in a chair

[C13: from Old French chaiere, from Latin cathedra, from Greek kathedra, from kata- down + hedra seat; compare cathedral]

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Word Origin & History

chair

early 13c., from O.Fr. chaire, from L. cathedra "seat" (see cathedral). Figurative sense of "authority" was in M.E., of bishops and professors. Meaning "office of a professor" (1816) is extended from the seat from which a professor lectures (mid-15c.). Meaning "seat of

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a person presiding at meeting" is from 1640s. Chairman is first attested 1650s; chairwoman 1690s; chairperson 1971.

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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

chair

see musical chairs.