Chair vs Metaphor - What's the difference?
chair | metaphor |
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.
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(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.
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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.
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To act as chairperson.
To carry someone in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory
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(Wales, UK) To award a chair to the winning poet at a Welsh eisteddfod.
(uncountable, figure of speech) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of English without the words like'' or ''as , which would imply a simile.
* What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors''', metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are '''metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.'' — Friedrich Nietzsche, ''On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense , 1870, translated by Daniel Beazeale, 1979.
(countable, rhetoric) The word or phrase used in this way. An implied comparison.
As a verb chair
is .As a noun metaphor is
(uncountable|figure of speech) the use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn’t, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of english without the words like'' or ''as , which would imply a simile.chair
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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.}}
- (Shakespeare)
- 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 chairVerb
(en verb)- Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
- The time you won your town the race
- We chaired you through the marketplace.
- The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.