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noun
1.
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.
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.
EXPANDthe person occupying a seat of office, especially 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.
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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.
12.
COLLAPSEBritish Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like.
verb (used with object)
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.
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Chaired
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
verb (used without object)
Idioms17.
to preside over a meeting, committee, etc.
18.
get the chair, to be sentenced to die in the electric chair.
19.
take the chair,
a.
to begin or open a meeting.
b.
to preside at a meeting; act as chairperson.
Related forms
chair·less, adjective
un·chair, verb (used with object)
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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
EXPANDa person presiding at meeting" is from 1640s. Chairman is first attested 1650s; chairwoman 1690s; chairperson 1971.
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