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chair

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1. chair - Noun

2. chair - Verb

3. Chair - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When I was in junior high school, the teachers voted me the student most likely to end up in the electric chair. Sylvester Stallone

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life. Steve Ballmer

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When the master of the house tells a lie, and then offers him a chair. Burundi Proverb

The one who went to La Villa, lost his/her chair. Mexican Proverb

He who wants content can't find an easy chair. Persian Proverb

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