chair
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle French chaire, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathedra), from κατά (kata, “down”) + ἕδρα (hedra, “seat”).
[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /tʃɛə(ɹ)/, SAMPA: /tSE@(r)/
- (US) IPA: /tʃɛəɹ/, SAMPA: /tSE@r/
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[edit] Noun
chair (plural chairs)
- 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.
- Chairperson.
- 1658-9 March 23, Thomas Burton, Diary:
- The Chair behaves himself like a Busby amongst so many school-boys..and takes a little too much on him.
- 1887 September 5, The Times:
- It can hardly be conceived that the Chair would fail to gain the support of the House.
- Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.
- 1658-9 March 23, Thomas Burton, Diary:
- (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
- (rail transport) Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.
- (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- (slang, with the) The electric chair.
- He killed a cop: he's going to get the chair.
- The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.
- A professorship at a university
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Terms derived from "chair"
[edit] Translations
furniture
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[edit] Verb
chair (third-person singular simple present chairs, present participle chairing, simple past and past participle chaired)
- To act as chairperson.
- Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
- To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory
- 1896, A. E. Houseman, "To An Athlete Dying Young," in A Shropshire Lad,
- The time you won your town the race
- We chaired you through the marketplace.
- 1896, A. E. Houseman, "To An Athlete Dying Young," in A Shropshire Lad,
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to act as chairperson
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Most common English words before 1923: perfectly · fixed · leaves · #852: chair · date · summer · simply
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Latin carō.
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chair f. (plural chairs)
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Latin cadere, present active infinitive of cado
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chair
- to fall
[edit] Descendants
- French: choir
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