Sekirov Dictionary

chair

UK /t͡ʃɛə/US /t͡ʃɛɚ/

noun 11
verb 3
forms 3
phrases 3

noun11

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something that one person can sit on, which stands on legs or wheels and has a back
- All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.
- I sat on my chair to have dinner.
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Chairperson.
- Please address all questions through the Chair.
- Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.
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The post or position of chairperson.
- The meeting began, with Mr Roberts in the chair.
The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
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A distinguished professorship at a university.
- In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg […] — 2014
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The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
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An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
- Melinda has the best chair in the salon.
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(informal) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.
One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
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A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
- Enter Mortimer, brought in a Chayre, and Iaylors. — 1591
A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.

verb3

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To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
- Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
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To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
- The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the marketplace. — 1896
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(UK, Wales) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
- The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.

forms

chaired · chairing · chairs

Phrases with chair

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