OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 2036

chair

/t͡ʃɛə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
asiento • butaca • cadera • silla
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.
All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.
I sat on my chair to have dinner.
eminencia
A distinguished professorship at a university.
In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg […]
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 2037

chair

/t͡ʃɛə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dirigir • presidir
To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
Greenwood told RAIL she was disappointed that Parliamentary rules prevented her from chairing the TSC [Transport Select Committee] beyond last December's General Election, [...] Sh…
Phrases
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