chair
Significado (inglés)
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- 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.
- Clipping of chairperson.
- The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
- An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
- One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
- (informal) Ellipsis of electric chair (“device used for performing execution”).
- 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.
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Pronunciado como (IPA)
/t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/
Etimoloxía (inglés)
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.
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