transcription, транскрипция: [ tʃeə(r) ]
( chairs, chairing, chaired)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A chair is a piece of furniture for one person to sit on. Chairs have a back and four legs.
He rose from his chair and walked to the window.
N-COUNT
2.
At a university, a chair is the post of professor.
He has been appointed to the chair of sociology at Southampton University...
N-COUNT : usu sing , oft N of/in n
3.
The person who is the chair of a committee or meeting is the person in charge of it.
She is the chair of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Military.
= chairperson
N-COUNT : usu sing , oft N of n
4.
If you chair a meeting or a committee, you are the person in charge of it.
He was about to chair a meeting in Venice of EU foreign ministers...
VERB : V n
5.
The chair is the same as the electric chair . ( AM )
N-SING : the N