[chair] 
| 1. | a seat, esp. for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms. |
| 2. | something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair: The two men clasped hands to make a chair for their injured companion. |
| 3. | a seat of office or authority. |
| 4. | a position of authority, as of a judge, professor, etc. |
| 5. | the person occupying a seat of office, esp. the chairperson of a meeting: The speaker addressed the chair. |
| 6. | (in an orchestra) the position of a player, assigned by rank; desk: first clarinet chair. |
| 7. | the chair, Informal. electric chair. |
| 8. | chairlift. |
| 9. | sedan chair. |
| 10. | (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. |
| 12. | British Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like. |
| 13. | to place or seat in a chair. |
| 14. | 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. |
| 17. | to preside over a meeting, committee, etc. |
| 18. | get the chair, to be sentenced to die in the electric chair. |
| 19. | take the chair,
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| chair (châr) n.
[Middle English chaiere, from Old French, from Latin cathedra; see cathedra.] |
