Definition of "chair"
- noun
An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
Chairperson.
The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.
One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
The electric chair.
A professorship at a university.
- verb
To act as chairperson.
To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
To award a chair to the winning poet at a Welsh eisteddfod.
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