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What is the difference between chair and stool?

chair | stool |

As nouns the difference between chair and stool

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 stool is a seat for one person without a back or armrest.

As verbs the difference between chair and stool

is that chair is to act as chairperson while stool is to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

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.
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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.
    • (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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    stool

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
  • A footstool.
  • Feces; excrement.
  • (label) A decoy.
  • A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
  • Throne.
  • (label) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
  • (label) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
    • (Totten)
  • Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    {{der3, footstool , stool pigeon , stoolie , window stool}}

    See also

    * chair * seat

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) stolo. See stolon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
  • *1869 , Richard D. Blackmore,
  • *:I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.

    • Anagrams

    * loots * tools ----