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chair English

Meaning chair meaning

What does chair mean?
Definitions in simple English

chair Noun

— A chair is a piece of furniture for one person to sit on. Please, pull up a chair and sit down. There were six chairs around the table. — The person who is in charge of a meeting is the chair of the meeting. The chair opened the floor to questions. — A chair is a position of professor in a university. A chair of Mathematics has opened at London University.

chair Verb

— If you chair a meeting, you are in charge of controlling it. The meeting was chaired by the head teacher.

chair

— 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 the position of professor he was awarded an endowed chair in economics — 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 — verb (= moderate) preside over John moderated the discussion — noun an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair — noun (= chairperson) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization address your remarks to the chairperson

Synonyms chair synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as chair?

chair English » English

seat stool bench chairman chairperson preside president lead professorship chairwoman moderate armchair electric chair couch chairmanship throne sofa mat hot seat head death chair speaker saddle presidency place pedestal lift up lectureship headship form chairs bed woolsack venue tray transmit table stand spot spearhead socket small table slot site sit siege shelf settle settee see

Topics chair topics

What do people use chair to talk about?
Daily life Household equipment Furniture

Chair
Language and thought Teach

School
Social behavior Law Punish

Execute
Physical actions Posture

Stand
Physical actions Posture

Sit

Conjugation chair conjugation

How do you conjugate chair?

chair · verb

Examples chair examples

How do I use chair in a sentence?

Simple sentences

This chair is too low for me.
Won't you take a chair?
Don't lean on my chair.
He made his son a chair.
She sat in a chair reading a magazine.
The woman stood up from the chair and looked towards the door.
I bought a new chair for my office.
There was only one chair.
Peter knocked down the chair.
Get out of your chair and help!
Tom threw a tantrum and smashed his chair into pieces.
He looked around, then he sat on the chair.
Nothing remained in the room except an old table and an old chair.
This chair is missing a leg.
Take the other chair!
Your chair is identical to mine.
Please address the chair!
I love that chair.
You may sit down on the chair.
The chair hasn't arrived yet.
Betty sat in the chair with her legs crossed.
What's this chair doing here?
Could you move the chair a bit?
The old man sat in the chair with his eyes closed.
There was nothing but an old chair in the room.
It is under the chair.
A cat was sitting on the chair.

Movie subtitles

Nobody can help an old guy with a chair, huh?
Got your chair.
I only came in today to drop off my sister's chair.
I could just melt into the chair, like, like a butter lady.
This guy's going to the chair.
So you kids can go crazy with your halters and your sheaths and your cutouts, and I will wear a dress fit to upholster a chair.
Get a lawn chair, perv.
He was enjoying the warmth of her attention. And the lady was enjoying the warmth of his chair.
Won't you take my chair?
Oh, yes, on this chair.
Would somebody get General Ludendorff a nice, comfortable chair?
That chair is an old heirloom.
Honey Girl, it isn't safe to sit in a rocking chair when there's certain people present.
Sure I'm good enough to sit in such a swell chair?
A chair.
Honey Girl, it isn't safe to be sitting in a rocking chair, when there are certain persons present.
Oh, Honey Girl, didn't I tell you to stay away from the fire? And you told me not to be sitting in a rocking chair when Breck Coleman was around.
In a rocking chair?
In a rocking chair.
Can't you see he has no chair?
Chair.
Hand me that chair.
I'm sitting on the edge of my chair.
Will you show the lady a chair?
I don't want a chair.
Take a chair.
THE NEAR-DEATH-EXPERIENCE CHAIR!
THE CHAIR INDUCES A STATE WHERE SHE DECIDES FOR HERSELF WHAT SHE REALLY WANTS TO DO.
It's not a chair for sitting. It's just for imagining what it would be like if you could sit in it.
Where was I? Oh, yes, on this chair.
He can't even sit on a chair!
I should have busted his head with this chair.
Then somebody goes to the electric chair, and it won't be me.

News and current affairs

Here the Finns, who chair the EU right now, have taken an initiative to implement a pragmatic solution that takes into consideration both sides in the conflict.
And that can be a very valuable asset for an incumbent Fed chair - one that no other candidate could match.
But US presidents seek more than just a credible commitment to financial markets that the Fed chair will fear and fight inflation.
Ben Bernanke is, I think, a very good choice for Fed chair because he is so intelligent, honest, pragmatic, and clear-sighted in his vision of the economy.
Bernanke's deep knowledge of the Great Depression and of financial crises is exactly what America - and the world - needs in a Fed chair now.
I assist her in walking, placing her in a chair, and getting into our car.
I was in China primarily in my role as Chair of the British government's Review on Antimicrobial Resistance; but I also sought opportunities to speak to people about the challenges facing the economy.
In 2003, Zimbabwe will joined them and, unless African countries reverse an earlier decision, Libya will chair this body for a year!
This was endorsed in the report Our Common Future by the World Commission on Environment and Development, whose chair, Norway's then Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Bruntland, now heads the World Health Organization (WHO).
But Gore's fellow Nobel laureate, Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is not so sure.
LONDON - The US Federal Reserve's decision to delay an increase in interest rates should have come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Fed Chair Janet Yellen's comments.
With the decision about raising rates such a close call, one would think that the Fed would be inclined to do it this year, given that the chair and vice chair have pretty much told the market for months that this will happen.
If Fed Chair Janet Yellen has to assert her will over the FOMC for a while, so be it.
Closer to home, ASEAN's recent decision to give Burma a chance to chair the organization in 2014 underscores its neighbors' desire for the country's full participation in Asia's growing prosperity.
The choice of Libya to chair the UN Human Rights Commission adds insult to injury.
To see the severe effects of a banking crisis, look no further than the 1930's, a period that Ben Bernanke studied in detail before he became Fed chair.
As current ASEAN chair, he floated the idea of concertedly requesting a pardon for Aung San Suu Kyi.
By reappointing a Fed chair chosen by someone else, a president can appear to guarantee financial markets that the Fed is not too much under his thumb.
The protagonists that pressured the regime into relinquishing the ASEAN chair were not the usual Western human rights campaigners, but Burma's closest ASEAN neighbors.
And the benefits of the 2009 Shanghai Expo were rapidly undermined by the jailing of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and the television screens around the world broadcasting scenes of an empty chair at the Oslo ceremonies.
The news blackout imposed by Burma's military junta on its decision to forego its turn as chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) next year shows that it has received a severe blow to its prestige.
And it just so happens that neighboring Kazakhstan currently holds the chair of the OSCE and will host an OSCE summit in its capital later this year.

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