📖 Определения и значения для слова chair
📒 a piece of furniture for one person to sit on, with a back, a seat and four legs
- a table and chairs
- on a chair Sit on your chair!
- in a chair an old man asleep in a chair (= an armchair)
📒 the position of being in charge of a meeting or committee; the person who holds this position
- in the chair Who is in the chair today?
- All remarks should be addressed to the chair.
- She takes the chair in all our meetings.
📒 the position of being in charge of a department in a university; a special position as a university professor
- He holds the chair of philosophy at Oxford.
- the department chair
- She was awarded a personal chair in black history at Bath Spa University (= she was made a professor without being head of a department).
📒 (especially in the US) a chair in which criminals are killed by having a powerful electric current passed through their bodies; the method of execution that uses this chair