英语词汇“chairlifts”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

chair /chār/

noun

A movable seat for one person, with a back, usu four legs, and sometimes arms

A sedan chair (historical)

The seat or office of someone in authority, eg a judge, a bishop, or the person presiding over any meeting

A chairperson

Orig the seat from which a professor delivered his or her lectures

A professorship

The instrument or the punishment of death by electrocution (informal; with the)

A support for a railway rail securing it to a sleeper

transitive verb

To conduct (a meeting, etc) as chairperson

To carry publicly in triumph

To place in a seat of authority

ORIGIN: Fr chaire, from L, from Gr kathedrā

chairˈ-bed noun

A chair capable of being turned into a bed

chairˈborne adjective (informal)

Working at a desk

chairˈbound adjective

Unable to walk

Confined to a wheelchair

chairˈdays plural noun (Shakespeare; figurative)

The evening of life

chairˈlift noun

A set of seats suspended from cables used to carry skiers, etc uphill

chairˈman noun

A person (male or female) who takes the chair, or presides at an assembly or meeting (also chairˈperson; fem chairˈwoman)
A sedan-bearer (historical)

chairˈmanship noun

chairˈ-organ noun

A choir organ (perhaps because it sometimes formed the back of the organist's seat)

chairperson, chairwoman see under chairman above.

in the chair

Acting as the chairperson of a meeting

take the chair

To preside over a meeting as chairperson