Definition
a chair: a seat; a piece of furniture with a seat, legs and a back to sit on
the chair (of the Science department): the highest post, the leader, the head (of the Science department)
to chair (a meeting): to preside over, to direct (a meeting)
- "I was sitting innocently at my desk, daydreaming about my statue, when suddenly and inexplicably I fell out of my chair and onto the floor."
- "As I sat in the barber's chair"
- "I left the replacement keyboard on the big leather chair in your office."
- "I will chair the meeting today."
- "Let me just get a chair."
- "I had an accident on that chair."
- "Why did you break a chair on my head?"
- "Ruby kisses Icarus, who then falls off his chair."
- "The seven billion dollar deal had been in the works for months, says Professor Ping "Pong" Faan, chair of the economics department at Beijing University."
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