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chair

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chair ( Latin cathedra , Greek kathedra , "seat", Polish katedra ) is an equivalent of an academic department in Poland , Russia and Czech Republic , a division of a university or school faculty devoted to a particular academic discipline. Originally, a ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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. vb. 1 To act as chairperson. 2 To carry someone in a seated position upon ...

Usage examples of chair.

I was scooting my chair on its track back and forth along the row of sensor consoles that reported and recorded a variety of basic abiotic data.

For instance, if your forward-facing chair is bolted to the floor and your compartment is being accelerated forward, you will feel the force of your seat on your back just as with the car described by Albert.

Into it he had crammed a chair and minuscule table, desk-model accessor, and the accumulated reference materials and data of years of research.

He would not be trapped in a chair, the enforced stillness making him acutely conscious of the body separating him from God.

There are several telephones, seven or eight chairs, two racks on wheels that contain all the charts, and an Addressograph machine used when we order lab studies, X-rays, or tests on patients.

He let himself in the back door of the admin office and walked down the hall to his own office-- where he found Stafford sitting in his chair.

The boy stood beside the curule chair and looked down at the crowd, this his first experience of the extraordinary euphoria so many united people could generate, feeling the adulation brush his cheek because he stood so close to its source, and understanding what it must be like to be the First Man in Rome.

The aeronaut, his brow adorned with sticking-plaster, was sitting in a chair by the table, while the doctor was bandaging his splinted forearm.

Angband he set him in a chair of stone upon a high place of Thangorodrim, from which he could see afar the land of Hithlum in the west and the lands of Beleriand in the south.

Sedan chairs borne by trotting bearers became almost as common as people afoot, and, afoot, shopkeepers in coats or dresses heavily embroidered around the chest and shoulders were outnumbered by folk in livery as bright as that of the chair-bearers.

Janet, gang na to see: Ye left a chair afore the fire, Whaur I tauld ye nae chair sud be.

If it were a case of agnosia, the patient would now be seeing what he had always seen, that is to say, there would have been no diminution of his visual powers, his brain would simply have been incapable of recognising a chair wherever there happened to be a chair, in other words, he would continue to react correctly to the luminous stimuli leading to the optic nerve, but, to use simple terms within the grasp of the layman, he would have lost the capacity to know what he knew and, moreover, to express it.

In the alameda an old woman in a black rebozo was going about tilting the metal tables and chairs to let the water run off.

Talento and Aland left their chairs, presumably to help protect the mare.

Talento and Aland had pulled Meegan down onto a chair between them, and he sat staring at her.