Meaning

• 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."

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

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

• An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.

• One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

• A distinguished professorship at a university.

• A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.

• The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.

Meaning

• To act as chairperson at; to preside over.

  "Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting."

• To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.

• To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

  "The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod."

Meaning

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

Meaning

• A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.

• An electrically powered wheelchair.

• 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.