chair

Reikšmė (Anglų k.)

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.

Sinonimai

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

Tariamas kaip (IPA)

/t͡ʃɛə(ɹ)/

Etimologija (Anglų k.)

Paveldėta iš Vidurio Anglijos: 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.

Sakiniai

The plush chair leaned against the wall .

Pliušinė kėdė pasilenkė prie sienos.

Kravchuk held a mathematics chair at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute .

Kravchukas surengė matematikos kėdę Kijevo politechnikos institute.

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

Žurnalo komandai vadovauja Walteris Fernandezas, vadovaujantis leidinių komiteto pirmininkui Edgar Burcksen.