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What is the difference between armchair and chair?

armchair | chair |

Chair is a derived term of armchair.



As nouns the difference between armchair and chair

is that armchair is a chair with supports for the arms or elbows while chair is an item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

As an adjective armchair

is remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

As a verb chair is

to act as chairperson.

armchair

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
  • * 1928: , (The House at Pooh Corner)
    • when he suddenly saw Piglet sitting in his best armchair he could only stand there rubbing his head and wondering whose house he was in.

    See also

    * arm * chair * couch * sofa * furniture

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (figuratively) Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.
    • These days I'm an armchair detective.
  • (figuratively) Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports.
    • He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog on the internet.
    After the American football game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win, if they had been star athletes instead of out-of-shape old men.

    See also

    * armchair general * armchair hawk

    chair

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.
  • * , chapter=12
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs' for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker arm' chairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair , and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
  • Chairperson.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1658-9, date=March 23, author=Thomas Burton, title=Diary
    • , passage=The Chair behaves himself like a Busby amongst so many school-boys
  • * {{quote-news, year=1887, date=September 5, work=The Times
    • , passage=It can hardly be conceived that the Chair would fail to gain the support of the House.}}
  • (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
  • (rail transport) Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.
  • (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
  • The electric chair.
  • A distinguished professorship at a university.
  • * '>citation
  • An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.
  • A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • Think what an equipage thou hast in air, / And view with scorn two pages and a chair .

    Derived terms

    * birthing chair * chairman * chairness * chairwoman * chairperson * armchair * deck chair * easy chair * first chair * flag chair * give someone the chair * high chair * musical chairs * rocking chair * tub chair * wheelchair * wing chair

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To act as chairperson.
    • Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
  • To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory
  • * 1896 , , "To An Athlete Dying Young," in A Shropshire Lad ,
    • The time you won your town the race
    We chaired you through the marketplace.
  • (Wales, UK) To award a chair to the winning poet at a Welsh eisteddfod.
    • The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.

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