chair

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.

   All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.

2. The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

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

3. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
4. One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
5. A distinguished professorship at a university.
6. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
7. The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.

1. To act as chairperson at; to preside over.

   Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.

2. To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
3. To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

   The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.

noun

A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

1. A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.
2. An electrically powered wheelchair.
3. A transitional hold in which an attacking wrestler hoists an opponent up onto his/her shoulders so that they are both facing in the same direction.