Word Finder - chair

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An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

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All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.

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The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

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My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.

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An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.

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One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

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A distinguished professorship at a university.

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A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.

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The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.

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To act as chairperson at; to preside over.

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Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.

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To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.

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To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

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The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.

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A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.

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A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.

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An electrically powered wheelchair.

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A transitional hold in which an attacking wrestler hoists an opponent up onto his/her shoulders so that they are both facing in the same direction.

He leaned forward in his chair, sobering.

A footman moved the chair for her.

There, sitting in his chair, was Carl, fast asleep.

She stepped around the chair and stood before him.

He took the exercise book containing lessons in geometry written by himself and drew up a chair with his foot.

Alex sat down in his chair.

He leaned back in his chair again and stretched his legs out, his piercing gaze sorting through the secrets of her mind.

There sat the thorny Sorcerer in his chair of state, and when the Wizard saw him he began to laugh, uttering comical little chuckles.

I'm not ready for the rocking chair yet.

He shifted uncomfortably in his chair.

I forced her into a chair and held her there until I was nearly exhausted.

Often I found her, when she had a little leisure, sitting in her favourite corner, in a chair whose arms supported the big volume prepared for the blind, and passing her finger slowly over the lines of Moliere's 'Le Medecin Malgre Lui,' chuckling to herself at the comical situations and humorous lines.

He sank into the chair and let out a long breath.

He approached her favorite chair.

He sat down in a chair, waiting.

Finally he rose from his chair and brushed crumbs from his gray business suit.

She walked behind his chair, leaning over it and putting her arms around him.

She folded her legs beneath her once more on the chair.

He sat down beside Carmen and scooted his chair in.

He held her chair while she sat, and then slid it forward.

Then he turned to his chair.

He leaned back in his chair and frowned at her.

It was her turn to squirm in her chair.

He glanced at the dress and dropped into a chair at the table.

He shot out of the chair, clawing egg from his face as he lunged toward her.

What was he doing in the chair?

He jumped out of the chair and came to the side of her bed.

She turned her head to look at the chair, but Alex wasn't there.

He gazed up at her from his chair.

The chair makes you sad.

For a little while, she even forgot about the fear, but as they rose from the window seat, her gaze was drawn back to the chair.

When she finally found the courage to talk to Alex about the chair, she was surprised to find him unyielding in his decision to keep the chair.

Not while the situation with the chair was unresolved.

But he would be upset again if she said anything about the chair.

His logic was sound, but there was still the situation with the chair.

She had to face that chair — tonight.

She walked into the living room and stared at the chair.

With each step, the fear grew, until when she lowered herself into the chair, her heart was pounding in her ears.

Pulling a chair out, he sat down and put one foot across his knee.

She straightened in her chair, her face growing warm.

Clarissa sat her chair like a queen on a throne, the toe of a red pump and a white plaster clad foot peeping out from under her long gown.

In 1845 he was appointed to the chair of chemistry, physics and technology at the Wiesbaden Agricultural Institution, and three years later he became the first director of the chemical laboratory which he induced the Nassau government to establish at that place.

In 1866 he was appointed regius professor of modern history at Oxford, and held the chair until 1884.

The best way to make a chair, known only by a few craftsmen, would be used to make all the chairs better.

Helen was lying on the floor, kicking and screaming and trying to pull my chair from under me.

I forced her out of the chair and made her pick it up.

Pierre had come just at dinnertime and was sitting awkwardly in the middle of the drawing room on the first chair he had come across, blocking the way for everyone.

I challenge you! he ejaculated, and, pushing back his chair, he rose from the table.

She did not venture to ask any questions, and shut the door again, now sitting down in her easy chair, now taking her prayer book, now kneeling before the icon stand.

When at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natasha did not even make him a curtsy.