chair
椅子,主席,椅,椅子上
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- : a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
- : something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair: The two men clasped hands to make a chair for their injured companion.
- : a seat of office or authority.
- : a position of authority, as of a judge, professor, etc.
- : the person occupying a seat of office, especially the chairperson of a meeting: The speaker addressed the chair.
- : the position of a player, assigned by rank; desk: first clarinet chair.
- : the chair, Informal. electric chair.
- : chairlift.
- : sedan chair.
- : a device for maintaining the position of reinforcing rods or strands during the pouring operation.
- : a glassmaker's bench having extended arms on which a blowpipe is rolled in shaping glass.
- : British Railroads. a metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like.
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- : to place or seat in a chair.
- : to install in office.
- : to preside over; act as chairperson of: to chair a committee.
- : British. to carry aloft in triumph.
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- : to preside over a meeting, committee, etc.
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The best desk chair has to look and feel good so your office is a tranquil, productive space.
For example, Stepanek says that if you were to sit in an office chair with your eyes closed, and someone were to rotate it very smoothly at a constant rate, eventually your vestibular system would be thrown off.
However, a throw-size blanket for use on a chair or couch is not designed to be that large anyway, so it’s easier to find budget blankets in that size range.
Hawley’s feet were up on a chair as he studiously scanned through stacks of papers, which he later said were trial briefs from both legal teams.
He was especially impressed by one of them, who was seated in a chair with her hands on the heads of two leopards.
While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.
She added: “NBC News is proud to have David in the important anchor chair of ‘Meet the Press.’ ”
Still fearful and smarting from the pain, I arrived on time and was led to chair in his office.
In our screenings, he always sits in the same corner chair and always looks hopeful, no matter what the movie.
For a large fee, you could be pushed down the boardwalk on a rolling wicker chair by a black worker.
It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
With a suffocating gasp, she fell back into the chair on which she sat, and covered her face with her hands.
The president sat in a chair which came over with the pilgrims in their ship, the Mayflower.
She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm.
He noticed at the same time several burnt matches between his cushions and her chair.