noun. A piece of furniture designed to accommodate one sitting or reclining person, providing support for the back and often the arms and typically standing on four legs.

noun. A seat of office, authority, or dignity, such as that of a bishop.

noun. undefined

noun. An office or position of authority, such as a professorship.

noun. A person who holds an office or a position of authority, such as one who presides over a meeting or administers a department of instruction at a college; a chairperson.

noun. The position of a player in an orchestra.

noun. The electric chair.

noun. A seat carried about on poles; a sedan chair.

noun. Any of several devices that serve to support or secure, such as a metal block that supports and holds railroad track in position.

transitive verb. To preside over as chairperson.

transitive verb. To install (someone) in a position of authority, especially as a presiding officer.

transitive verb. To carry (someone) high off the ground in a chair or in a seated position, especially as a tribute.

To place or carry in a chair; especially, carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

To place in a chair of office; install; enthrone.

noun. The office or dignity of chief magistrate of a city or corporate town in England, especially of the City of London: as, an alderman below the chair is one who has not yet served as lord mayor.

noun. In glass-blowing, a seat of special construction in which the glass-blower sits, using the elongated and horizontal arms as supports for the pontil as he rolls it backward and forward; hence, the gang of men who work in and about such a chair.

noun. A seat having a back, and sometimes arms, intended for the accommodation of one person.

noun. A seat of office or authority: as, the chair of a judge, a professor, the presiding officer of a meeting or an assembly, etc.

noun. The incumbent of a seat of authority; a professor or the like; now, specifically, the chairman or presiding officer of an assemblage: as, to address or support the chair.

noun. One of four conventions connected with the eisteddfod of Wales, in which bardic matters are discussed and disciples trained in preparation for the great gorsedd or assembly.

noun. A sedan-chair.

noun. A two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a chaise; a gig.

noun. One of the iron blocks forming a kind of clutch by which, according to a common English system, the rails in a railroad are supported and secured to the sleepers or ties. A jointchair is a chair that secures the connection of two rails at their ends.

noun. A sort of low wheeled carriage.

noun. A movable single seat with a back.

noun. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

noun. The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman.

noun. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.

noun. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

noun. days of repose and age.

noun. to elect as president, or as chairman of a meeting.

noun. to assume the position of president, or of chairman of a meeting.

transitive verb. To place in a chair.

transitive verb. To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

transitive verb. To function as chairperson of (a meeting, committee, etc.).

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.

noun. Chairperson.

noun. The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

noun. Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.

noun. One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

noun. The electric chair.

noun. A professorship at a university

verb. To act as chairperson.

verb. To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory

verb. To award a chair to the winning poet at a Welsh eisteddfod.

noun. the position of professor

noun. a seat for one person, with a support for the back

noun. the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

verb. act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university

verb. preside over

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chaired  chairing  

Seat  berth  billet  discuss  hash out  

Adair  Aer  Altair  Astaire  Ayre  

Seat  age  arm  author  bar  

Eames chair  Hitchcock chair  TV chair  administer  administrate  

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