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Definition of Chair |
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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. Related Definitions: Address, An, And, As, Assembly, Back, Block, Borne, But, By, Carriage, Carry, Chair, Chairman, Chief, Drawn, Either, For, Gig, Hence, Horse, In, Iron, Itself, Judge, Magistrate, Movable, Of, Office, Officer, Official, On, One, Or, Person, Place, Presiding, Professor, Publicly, Seat, Secure, Sedan, Single, Support, That, The, Them, To, Triumph, Upon, Used, Vehicle, With |
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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 |
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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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