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▸ noun: (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
▸ noun: (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
▸ noun: (organic chemistry, physical chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
▸ noun: (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
▸ noun: A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
▸ noun: The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
▸ noun: An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.
▸ verb: (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
▸ verb: (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
▸ verb: (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
▸ noun: (often with definite article) Chairperson.
▸ noun: (fandom slang) The ship of characters Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf of the Gossip Girl series.
▸ noun: (often with definite article, also written Chair) Clipping of chairperson. [A chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.]
▸ noun: (informal, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”). [A chair-like device used for performing execution by electrocution.]
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