chair
- Noun. 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.
- Noun. Chairperson.
- Noun. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- Noun. (rail transport) Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.
- Noun. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- Noun. (slang, with ''the'') The electric chair.
- Noun. A professorship at a university.
- Verb. To act as chairperson.
- Verb. To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
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