Chair vs Purple - What's the difference?
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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.
A colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
* Milton
Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
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(by extension) Imperial power, (because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings).
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* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.29:
Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
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* 2011 , Danielle Santiago, Allure of the Game ,
(medicine) purpura
earcockle, a disease of wheat.
Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia'' (formerly ''Limenitis ).
A cardinalate.
Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support, as in purple state'', ''purple city .
*2010 , Hal K. Rothman, The Making of Modern Nevada , University of Nevada Press, ISBN 978-0-87417-826-5,
*:In the end, Nevada remained the quintessential purple' state. On the maps that television used to illustrate political trends, Republican states were red and Democratic blue. Nevada blended the colors. It had a bright blue core in the heart of Las Vegas, surrounded by a ' purple suburban belt. Most of the rest of the state was bright red, especially in the rural counties.
(label) Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
Imperial; regal.
*(Percy Bysshe Shelley) (1792–1882)
*:Hide in the dust thy purple pride.
Blood-red; bloody.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:May such purple tears be alway shed.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:I view a field of blood, / And Tiber rolling with a purple blood.
Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
To turn purple in colour.
* 1999 , David Edelstein, (In Nomine): Corporeal Player's Guide , Steve Jackson Games, ISBN 1-55634-389-2, page 8:
As nouns the difference between chair and purple
is that 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 while purple is a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.As verbs the difference between chair and purple
is that chair is to act as chairperson while purple is to turn purple in colour.As an adjective purple is
having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.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.}}
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- (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.
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(wikipedia purple)Noun
(en noun)- Arraying with reflected purple and gold / The clouds that on his western throne attend.
- to put on the imperial purple
- Thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and purple , and scarlet.
- He was born in the purple .
- The immediate successors of Augustus indulged in appalling cruelties towards senators and towards possible competitors for the purple .
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- "Sure, some purple Owlsley."
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- “Purple' smoke is no joke. Especially when it is real '''purple'''. The smell, taste, and high is easily one of the best in the world. One bowl of some ' purple Kush, and I'm done for a couple of hours.
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- She preferred to smoke some good purple , but getting high wasn't an option.
- the banded purple
Adjective
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Antonyms
* (having purple as its colour) nonpurpleVerb
- The gang leader purpled and raised his gun.