Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- 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.
Verbi
- (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.
Esimerkit
- There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
- Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.
- All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.
- The Chair behaves himself like a Busby amongst so many school-boys[...]and takes a little too much on him.
- It can hardly be conceived that the Chair would fail to gain the support of the House.
- Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.
- My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
- He killed a cop: he's going to get the chair.
- The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.
- In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg [...]
- Think what an equipage thou hast in air, / And view with scorn two pages and a chair.
- Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
- The time you won your town the race
- We chaired you through the marketplace.
- The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | chaired |
| Imperfekti | chaired |
| Partisiipin preesens | chairing |
| Monikko | chairs |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | chairs |