Word Type
Chair can be a noun or a verb.
chair used as a 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.
"All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair." - The electric chair.
"The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him." - The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
"My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops." - Blocks that support and hold railroad track in position, and similar devices.
- Chairperson; a non-gender-specific form of chairman.
"Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions." - One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
chair used as a 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
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is chair?
- Noun usage: All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair.
- Noun usage: The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.
- Noun usage: My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
- Noun usage: Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.
- Verb usage: Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of chair are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of chair, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).