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What does chair mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chair? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. Chairperson.
  3. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
  4. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
  5. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
  6. (slang, with the) The electric chair.
  7. A distinguished professorship at a university.
  8. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
  2. (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory
  3. (transitive, Wales, Britain) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
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