chair

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. 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. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
2. Clipping of chairperson.
3. The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
4. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
5. One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
6. (informal) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
7. A distinguished professorship at a university.
8. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
9. The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.
10. An assigned position in a beauty salon or barbershop.

Verb

1. To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
2. To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
3. To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

Konzepte

Stuhl

🪑

Vorsitz

🪑

Vorsitzender

Lehrstuhl

Sessel

Sitz

💺

Professur

Hocker

leiten

Couch

🛋️

Präsidentschaft

Präsidentin

Sofa

🛋️

Parlamentssitz

Platz

Polstersessel

Polsterstuhl

Präsident

Präsidialperiode

präsidieren

Sattel

Schemel

Sitzbank

Stelle

Stühle

vorsitzen

Vorsitzende

Vorsitzerin

Vorstandsvorsitzende

Sänftenträger

Vorstandsvorsitzender

Wahlrechtgruppe

Sitzfläche

Reitsattel

Vorsitzer

Obmännin

Polsterbank

Obfrau

Lehnsessel Fauteuil

Arbeitshocker

Position eines Vorsitzenden

Vorsitzende Präsident

-häupte

Oberhaupt -s

Leiter -s

Armsessel

Stuhl -s

Armstuhl

Bank

Belagerung

den Vorsitz haben

Exkret

Fauteuil

führen

Job

Kanapee

Lehnstuhl

Ministerpräsident

Obmann

Synonyme

seat

💺

stool

bench

chairman

chairperson

preside

president

lead

chairwoman

professorship

armchair

moderate

chairmanship

electric chair

couch

🛋️

death chair

throne

hot seat

head

sofa

🛋️

mat

chairs

place

speaker

🔈

bed

🛏️

presidency

lectureship

lift up

form

saddle

headship

pedestal

gudgeon

guide

holder

infer

job

keep

leader

lecture

locale

location

locus

manage

mend

moderator

niche

operate

patch

pillow

platform

point

position

presider

pulpit

recliner

residence

result

rule

sedan-chair

see

👀

settee

settle

shelf

siege

sit

🪑

site

slot

small table

socket

spearhead

spot

stand

table

transmit

tray

venue

woolsack

highchair

hydra

kep

professoriate

employment

foreperson

cross arm

lug support

Job Title

carrier frame

base seat

case of fit

cage kep

folding board

abutment

loungeroom

bank

🏦

bay

bearer

berth

bracket

caller

call the shots

carriage

carrier

chesterfield

chief

conduct

console

constituency

convey

course

cradle

davenport

derive

direct

divan

dog

🐕

elicit

eventuate

filling

footstool

forelady

foreman

forewoman

foundation

go

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

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Etymologie (Englisch)

Geerbt von Mittelenglisch: chayer

In summary

From Middle English chayer, chaire, chaiere, chaere, chayre, chayere, from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “down”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). Displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of cathedra and chaise.

Sätze

The plush chair leaned against the wall .

Der Plüschstuhl lehnte sich an die Wand.

Kravchuk held a mathematics chair at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute .

Kravchuk hielt am Kiew Polytechnic Institute einen Mathematikstuhl.

Walter Fernandez , Junior leads the magazine's team , with publications committee chair Edgar Burcksen.

Walter Fernandez, Junior, leitet das Team des Magazins mit dem Vorsitzenden des Publications Committee Edgar Burcksen.