<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.</li><li>Something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair: The two men clasped hands to make a chair for their injured companion.</li><li>A seat of office or authority.</li><li>A position of authority, as of a judge, professor, etc.</li><li>The person occupying a seat of office, especially the chairperson of a meeting: The speaker addressed the chair.</li><li>(In an orchestra) The position of a player, assigned by rank; desk: First clarinet chair.</li><li>The chair, Informal: Electric chair.</li><li>Chairlift.</li><li>Sedan chair.</li><li>(In reinforced-concrete construction) A device for maintaining the position of reinforcing rods or strands during the pouring operation.</li><li>A glassmaker's bench having extended arms on which a blowpipe is rolled in shaping glass.</li><li>British Railroads: A metal block for supporting a rail and securing it to a crosstie or the like.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) To place or seat in a chair.</li><li>To install in office.</li><li>To preside over; act as chairperson of: To chair a committee.</li><li>British: To carry (a hero or victor) aloft in triumph.</li><li>(Used without object) To preside over a meeting, committee, etc.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>