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chair

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Source Word

chair

IPA(Pronunciation)

/t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/

abbreviation alt-of clipping often with-definite-article ellipsis slang with the

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. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

Japanese Meaning

椅子

What is this buttons?

She pushed the old wooden chair back from the table and smiled.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼女は古い木製の椅子をテーブルから引き、微笑んだ。

Sense（1）

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. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

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Sense（2）

(often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.

Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.

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(music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

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

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

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(slang, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair. (the execution device).

"It was me. And I'm glad, damned glad, I didn't croak him. With this slick guy after me, it would be me for the chair."

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(education) A distinguished professorship at a university.

In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg […]

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Enter Mortimer, brought in a Chayre, and Iaylors.

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Sense（9）

The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.

chairs

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