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Word: Chair
Speech Type: Noun
Middle English: from Old French chaiere (modern chaire ‘bishop's throne, etc.’, chaise ‘chair’), from Latin cathedra ‘seat’, from Greek kathedra. Compare with cathedral
tʃɛː
a separate seat for one person, typically with a back and four legs.
Short Definition:seat
the person in charge of a meeting or of an organization (used as a neutral alternative to chairman or chairwoman)
Short Definition:person in charge
Examples:- she's the chair of a research committee
a professorship
Short Definition:professorship
Examples:- he held a chair in physics
a metal socket holding a rail in place on a railway sleeper.
Short Definition:socket in railway
Word: Chair
Speech Type: Verb
tʃɛː
act as chairperson of or preside over (an organization, meeting, or public event)
Short Definition:act as chairperson
Examples:- the debate was chaired by the Archbishop of York
carry (someone) aloft in a chair or in a sitting position to celebrate a victory
Short Definition:carry
Examples:- no one seemed anxious to chair him round the hall
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