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Chairs

/t͡ʃɛəz/

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.

📖 Definitions of "Chairs"

noun
  1. 1

    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.

    "All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair."

  2. 2

    The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

    "My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops."

  3. 3

    An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.

  4. 4

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

verb
  1. 1

    To act as chairperson at; to preside over.

    "Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting."

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

    "The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod."

noun
  1. 1

    A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

noun
  1. 1

    A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.

  2. 2

    An electrically powered wheelchair.

  3. 3

    A transitional hold in which an attacking wrestler hoists an opponent up onto his/her shoulders so that they are both facing in the same direction.

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