Chair
A movable single seat with a back.
An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.
The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.
A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.
An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
To place in a chair.
To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.
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Chair Quotations
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein
The discontented man finds no easy chair.
Benjamin Franklin
My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.
Rodney Dangerfield
I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
Bill Cosby
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
Stephen Fry
There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
Brian Clough
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King
They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.
Etta James
Chair Translations
chair in Afrikaans is stoel
chair in Danish is stol
chair in Dutch is stoel
chair in Finnish is tuoli
chair in German is Stuhl, Vorsitz, Stuhl
chair in Italian is presidenza, sedia
chair in Norwegian is stol
chair in Portuguese is cadeira
chair in Spanish is presidencia, silla
chair in Swedish is stol
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