chair
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
- 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.