How to pronounce “chair”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person.
• (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson.
• (usually with definite article) The post or position of chairperson.
• (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
• (rail transport) A cast-iron component used on railways to support bullhead rails and secure them to the sleepers.
• (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
• (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
• (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
• A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
• The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
• An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
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• [Verb]
• (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
• (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
• (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

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