Chair vs Share - 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 portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone.
(finance) A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability.
(computing) A configuration enabling a resource to be shared over a network.
The sharebone or pubis.
To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.
To have or use in common.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:while avarice and rapine share the land
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
To divide and distribute.
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:Suppose I share my fortune equally between my children and a stranger.
To tell to another.
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, title= (lb) To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:The shared visage hangs on equal sides.
(agriculture) The cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.
As verbs the difference between chair and share
is that chair is while share is to give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume.As a noun share is
a portion of something, especially a portion given or allotted to someone or share can be (agriculture) the cutting blade of an agricultural machine like a plough, a cultivator or a seeding-machine.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.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) schare, schere, from (etyl) . Compare (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)- Upload media from the browser or directly to the file share .
- (Holland)
Derived terms
* lion's share * share and share alikeVerb
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