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单词 chair-organ
释义

chair /chār/

noun
  1. A movable seat for one person, with a back, usu four legs, and sometimes arms
  2. A sedan chair (historical)
  3. The seat or office of someone in authority, eg a judge, a bishop, or the person presiding over any meeting
  4. A chairperson
  5. Orig the seat from which a professor delivered his or her lectures
  6. A professorship
  7. The instrument or the punishment of death by electrocution (informal; with the)
  8. A support for a railway rail securing it to a sleeper
transitive verb
  1. To conduct (a meeting, etc) as chairperson
  2. To carry publicly in triumph
  3. To place in a seat of authority
ORIGIN: Fr chaire, from L, from Gr kathedrā

chairˈ-bed noun

A chair capable of being turned into a bed

chairˈborne adjective (informal)

Working at a desk

chairˈbound adjective

  1. Unable to walk
  2. Confined to a wheelchair

chairˈdays plural noun (Shakespeare; figurative)

The evening of life

chairˈlift noun

A set of seats suspended from cables used to carry skiers, etc uphill

chairˈman noun

  1. A person (male or female) who takes the chair, or presides at an assembly or meeting (also chairˈperson; fem chairˈwoman)
  2. A sedan-bearer (historical)

chairˈmanship noun

chairˈ-organ noun

A choir organ (perhaps because it sometimes formed the back of the organist's seat)

chairperson, chairwoman see under chairman above.

in the chair

Acting as the chairperson of a meeting

take the chair

To preside over a meeting as chairperson

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