chair的意思|chair的解释-里氏词典

chair [tʃɛr]

n. 椅子, 显要的席位, 主席

vt. 使入座, 使就任要职

[医] 椅

Father sits in the same chair every evening.
父亲每晚都坐在同一张椅子上，
The old chair gave a groan when the fat man sat down on it.
那个胖子坐下时，旧椅子发出嘎吱的响声。
chair..
椅子.

chair

[ noun ]

a seat for one person, with a support for the back

<noun.artifact>

he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down

the position of professor

<noun.act>

he was awarded an endowed chair in economics

the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

<noun.person>

address your remarks to the chairperson

an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person

<noun.artifact>

the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair

a particular seat in an orchestra

<noun.artifact>

he is second chair violin

[ verb ]

act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university

<verb.social>

chairman

She chaired the department for many years

John moderated the discussion

Chair \Chair\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Chaired}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Chairing}.]
1. To place in a chair.

2. To carry publicly in a chair in triumph. [Eng.]

3. To function as chairperson of (a meeting, committee,
etc.); as, he chaired the meeting.
[PJC]

Chair \Chair\ (ch[^a]r), n. [OE. chaiere, chaere, OF. chaiere,
chaere, F. chaire pulpit, fr. L. cathedra chair, armchair, a
teacher's or professor's chair, Gr. ? down + ? seat, ? to
sit, akin to E. sit. See {Sit}, and cf. {Cathedral},
{chaise}.]
1. A movable single seat with a back.

2. An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but
esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

The chair of a philosophical school. --Whewell.

A chair of philology. --M. Arnold.

3. The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to
address the chair.

4. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles,
or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.
--Shak.

Think what an equipage thou hast in air,
And view with scorn two pages and a chair. --Pope.

5. An iron block used on railways to support the rails and
secure them to the sleepers.

{Chair days}, days of repose and age.

{To put into the chair}, to elect as president, or as
chairman of a meeting. --Macaulay.

{To take the chair}, to assume the position of president, or
of chairman of a meeting.

A successful override later this year in the Democratic-controlled Assembly would clear the way for the electric chair to be put back into use in the nation's second largest state. California already has the death penalty.
Dukakis worked on his speech Wednesday after meeting briefly with Jackson, his former rival, to discuss the fall campaign. Dukakis sat in an easy chair in the bedroom of his hotel suite revising a draft of his speech with a pen.
During sentencing Tuesday, Ms. McMurray told District Judge Sam Kiser that Harris and his co-defendant, Ricky Wilson, beat her, tied her to a chair and ransacked her apartment.
During the ceremony at Maiquetia airport, the 72-year-old president slumped heavily against a wall in the hot weather, and officials rushed to offer the French leader a chair, witnesses said.
There's not a chair in sight.
And a longtime Solidarity adviser, Witold Trzeciakowski, would chair a new council of economic advisers.
"The `devil chair' makes everyone the devil, no matter who they are," he says.
Because he was sentenced before the state switched its method of executions, Swindler has the choice of dying in the electric chair or by lethal injection, the state standard.
This week, for example, Mr. Silverstein established a $1.2 million endowed chair at his alma mater, New York University, for the study of real-estate development.
He also could face the electric chair.
In future, there would be a cabinet sub-committee for London, with the Environment Secretary in the chair and a junior minister for London public transport at his right hand.
About 15 minutes later, Morris leaned forward in his chair, pointed his finger at another witness and accused him of lying about the events on the night of the shooting.
"I have banged my knuckles more times than I can remember," he says of trying to get his mother's chair through doorways that were too small.
Matilde Nunez gripped the edge of her wooden chair and strained to watch the little girl as she grabbed her ruffled skirts and sashayed across the stage.
A member of the banned trade union, Solidarity, commented that "the difference between democracy and socialist democracy is the same as the difference between a chair and an electric chair."
A member of the banned trade union, Solidarity, commented that "the difference between democracy and socialist democracy is the same as the difference between a chair and an electric chair."
"Other countries would give a Palestinian terrorist who killed a baby the chair, the noose or life behind bars.
Lord Young, who will chair the operating company, said yesterday: 'This is a very, very serious bid which is properly worked out.
The last criminal to die in New York's electric chair was Eddie Lee Mays in 1963.
"I think it would be fun for a collector to be able to say: 'Hey, want to know who used to own this chair?'"
Richard Lee Whitley, 41, executed in Virginia's electric chair on July 6 for strangling an elderly neighbor, slashing her throat and sexually assaulting her corpse.
A long, cool drink at hand, I lay back in a rattan-woven planter's chair, the kind in which colonials in every tropical outpost from Calcutta to Kumasi have taken their ease.
Ferno Healthcare, Wilmington, Ohio, sells a ComfortCare tub with a full-length bench fixed at chair height and a tiltable halftube.
Citicorp, Lloyds and Morgan chair the committee.
The chair is so big that two sisters sleep on top of the arms; the underpart of the arms serves as tunnels.
De Gennes, 57, has held the chair in condensed-matter physics at the College of France since 1971.
"Yes, I want him to get the electric chair," Barber said.
Earl Clanton Jr. went quietly to his death in the electric chair Thursday night for strangling a neighbor during a 1980 robbery.
Hastings is expected to return to the witness chair later to testify on the bribery allegations.
The postage stamp honoring the Senate will display the gilt shield and eagle suspended over the presiding officer's chair in the Capitol's Old Senate Chamber, in use from 1810 to 1859.

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