Definition of Chair

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Definition of Chair

Chair

A movable single seat with a back.

An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

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

An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

To place in a chair.

To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

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Chair Quotations

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
Rodney Dangerfield

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
Brian Clough

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
Stephen Fry

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
Marshall McLuhan

The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.
J. Edgar Hoover

Chair Translations

chair in Afrikaans is stoel
chair in Danish is stol
chair in Dutch is stoel
chair in Finnish is tuoli
chair in German is Stuhl, Vorsitz, Stuhl
chair in Italian is presidenza, sedia
chair in Norwegian is stol
chair in Portuguese is cadeira
chair in Spanish is presidencia, silla
chair in Swedish is stol

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