noun
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.
All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.
I sat on my chair to have dinner.
Clipping of chairperson.
Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.
The Chair behaves himself like a Busby amongst so many school-boys[…]and takes a little too much on him.
The post or position of chairperson.
The meeting began, with Mr Roberts in the chair.
The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
The wooden or steel keys used to secure bull-head rails in their chairs are usually driven in the direction of the traffic, so that the effects of rail-creep may be made use of to wedge the keys more firmly, rather than to encourage them to drop out.
verb
To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
Dama ben Netina, the gentile "Mayor" of first-century Ashkelon, was once chairing a meeting of the City Council.
To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
The time you won your town the race We chaired you through the marketplace.
To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.
name
Chairperson.
Please address all questions through the Chair.