chair
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- n a seat for one person, with a support for the back
he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down - n the position of professor
he was awarded an endowed chair in economics - n the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization
address your remarks to the chairperson - n an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair - n a particular seat in an orchestra
he is second chair violin - v act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university
She chaired the department for many years - v preside over
- Are they "musical" chairs (the tall backs look like tuning forks)? Do they suggest that anyone could be in any chair at any time? Do they represent the normal and unthinkable at .
- Democratic chair: Robert Byrd, West Virginia Effect of change: Not much.
- He walked grinning to the chair, told one of the guards that one of the electrodes against his leg did not seem tight enough, and he died.