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 →

2) The chair (chairperson) is the person who runs a meeting. tree →

3) To chair a meeting is to lead it. tree →

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 →
• 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 →
• There are 6 rows of 8 chairs. tree →
• Each table has 4 chairs. tree →
• 30 people and 25 chairs: how many must stand? tree →
• A chair costs 20 dollars. tree →
• Push your chair in when you leave. tree →
• We played musical chairs at the party. tree →
• Grandpa sat in his armchair. tree →
• She uses a wheelchair to get around. tree →
• The baby ate in her high chair. tree →
• Don't lean back on your chair. tree →
• ‘Who’s been sitting on my little chair?’ tree →

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.
• The children in the lessons are characters; you never had a body, sat on a chair or went to a real school.
• Almost everything people make was designed by someone: chairs, signs, logos, books, phones, bags and clothes.
• And the cartoon elephant that screams and jumps on a chair at the sight of a mouse?
• They find Toad in a garden chair with a big map on his knees.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «chair» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.