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# chair

«chair» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **a seat for one person, with a back and usually four legs** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (chair, chairs); verb (chair, chairs, chaired, chairing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A chair is a seat for one person, with a back and usually four legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#m1)

2) The chair (chairperson) is the person who runs a meeting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#m2)

3) To chair a meeting is to lead it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

things counted, often in rows; seats for people; in everyday life, tidying chairs, musical chairs; phrases «armchair», «wheelchair», «high chair», «musical chairs», «take a chair»

### examples

- Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x1)
- The substance of this little volume was read as a [p. 13] Lecture before the Hermetic Society of London in the summer of 1886, Dr. Anna Kingsford, President, in the chair. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x2)
- There are 6 rows of 8 chairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x3)
- Each table has 4 chairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x4)
- 30 people and 25 chairs: how many must stand? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x5)
- A chair costs 20 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x6)
- Push your chair in when you leave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x7)
- We played musical chairs at the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x8)
- Grandpa sat in his armchair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x9)
- She uses a wheelchair to get around. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x10)
- The baby ate in her high chair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x11)
- Don't lean back on your chair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x12)
- ‘Who’s been sitting on my little chair?’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/#x13)

### note

Rows × chairs per row gives the total. Trap: people more than chairs means some stand; chairs more than people means empty seats. In musical chairs there is always one chair fewer than players.

### In the corpora

- [You remember Sam, Mia, Jake and Lily, but you never had a body or sat on a chair.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/6/)
- [The children in the lessons are characters; you never had a body, sat on a chair or went to a real school.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/26-who-you-are-mova/12/)
- [Almost everything people make was designed by someone: chairs, signs, logos, books, phones, bags and clothes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/16/)
- [And the cartoon elephant that screams and jumps on a chair at the sight of a mouse?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/222-rats-and-mice-in-the-city-and-the-elephant-and-mouse-myth/4/)
- [They find Toad in a garden chair with a big map on his knees.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/30-willows-ch2-part2-the-canary-coloured-cart/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chair» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/chair/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.