chair

Plural: chairs

Noun

• a seat for one person, with a support for the back
  • "he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down"
• the position of professor
  • "he was awarded an endowed chair in economics"
• the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
  • "address your remarks to the chairperson"
• an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
  • "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair"
• a particular seat in an orchestra
  • "he is second chair violin"
• An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
• Clipping of chairperson.
• The post or position of chairperson.
• The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
• A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
• One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
• Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
• A distinguished professorship at a university.
• A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
• The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
• An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.

Verb

Verb Forms: chaired, chairing, chairs

• To preside over a meeting or to install someone in a position of authority.
• act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
  • "She chaired the department for many years"
• preside over
• To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
• To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
• To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

Examples

• 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.
• Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
• Melinda has the best chair in the salon.
• My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
• The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.
• The meeting began, with Mr Roberts in the chair.
• The player who can CHAIR the best strategy often wins the Scrabble tournament.
• The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.
• Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.

Synonyms

chairman, chairperson, chairwoman, death chair, electric chair, hot seat, lead, moderate, president, professorship

Related Words

bench, couch, loveseat, settee, sofa, stool

Anagrams of chair