2016年10月29日 星期六

chair



chair

NOUN

  • 1A separate seat for one person, typically with a back and four legs.
    1. 1.1
      short for electric chair
  • 2The person in charge of a meeting or of an organization (used as a neutral alternative to chairman or chairwoman) 2014.10.30 英文很有彈性。以前女權興起,說(女)董事長要稱chairperson。
    今天看杜邦公司發的新聞稿,只用chair: 
    Columbia Business School Awards Deming Cup to DuPont Chair & CEO Ellen Kullman
    ‘she's the chair of a research committee’
    1. 2.1The post of a chairperson.
      ‘he was due to step down after a three-year stint in the chair’
  • 3A professorship.
    ‘he held a chair in physics’
  • 4British A metal socket holding a rail in place on a railway sleeper.

VERB

[WITH OBJECT]
  • 1Act as chairperson of or preside over (an organization, meeting, or public event)
    ‘the debate was chaired by the Archbishop of York’
  • 2British Carry (someone) aloft in a chair or in a sitting position to celebrate a victory.
    ‘no one seemed anxious to chair him round the hall’

Phrases

  • take the chair
    • Act as chairperson.
      ‘the account executive will usually take the chair in meetings’

Origin

Middle English: from Old French chaiere (modern chaire bishop's throne, etc., chaise chair), from Latin cathedra seat, from Greek kathedra. Compare with cathedral.

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