Chair
[tʃeə] or [tʃɛr]
Definition
(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'.
(noun.) a particular seat in an orchestra; 'he is second chair violin'.
(verb.) act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; 'She chaired the department for many years'.
Typist: Wanda--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A movable single seat with a back.
(n.) An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.
(n.) The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.
(n.) A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.
(n.) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
(v. t.) To place in a chair.
(v. t.) To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.
Typed by Elvin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Movable seat.[2]. Seat of justice, seat of authority.[3]. Chairman, presiding officer.[4]. Professorship.
Editor: Sallust
Definition
n. a movable seat for one with a back to it: a covered vehicle for one person as a sedan-chair: the seat or office of one in authority as a judge a bishop or the person presiding over any meeting—hence 'to take the chair' = to assume the place of president; 'to address the chair' = to direct one's speech to the chairman; 'to support the chair' = to uphold the authority of the chairman—often when endangered in a public meeting asserted by cries of 'Chair!': the seat from which a professor delivers his lectures the office or function of a professor—'socialists of the chair' = mere doctrinaire or theoretical advocates of socialism: cast-iron supports for rails under the permanent way in a railway held by wooden wedges and spiked on to transverse wooden sleepers.—v.t. to place in a seat of authority: to carry publicly in triumph.—n. Chair′-bed a kind of chair capable of being turned into a bed.—n.pl. Chair′-days (Shak.) used figuratively to denote the evening of life.—ns. Chair′man the man who takes the chair or presides at an assembly or meeting: one who carries a sedan or Bath chair; Chair′manship; Chair′-or′gan a corruption of choir-organ (q.v.); Chair′woman.
Typist: Sophie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a chair in your dream, denotes failure to meet some obligation. If you are not careful you will also vacate your most profitable places. To see a friend sitting on a chair and remaining motionless, signifies news of his death or illness.
Typed by Bernadine
Unserious Contents or Definition
Four-legged aid to the injured.
Edited by Joanne
Examples
- I felt it against the back of the chair. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The lad only answered by turning his cynical young face, half-arch, half-truculent, towards the paternal chair. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Will started up from his chair and reached his hat. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She put up her spectacles, shut the Bible, and pushed her chair back from the table. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Dorothea by this time had turned cold again, and now threw herself back helplessly in her chair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But it passed with the action of rising from her chair; and she sat down again very meekly, and fainted. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Jo went and sat on one arm of the chair, looking as if she thought they were about to join in some very solemn affair. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Handing chairs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There were painted white chairs, with gilding and wreaths on them, and some lingering red silk damask with slits in it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I was shown a little kitchen with a little stove and oven, with few but bright brasses, two chairs and a table. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- While we were still poking about among the chairs and tables, the door of the bed-room was suddenly opened. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- These articles, with two small wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The chairs and table, and the bottle so rarely absent from the table, all stand as usual. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Kathleen