chair (noun)
1: a seat for one person, with a support for the back; "he put his coat over the back of the chair and sat down"
2: the position of professor; "he was awarded an endowed chair in economics" [syn: professorship]
3: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson]
4: an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair; "the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair" [syn: electric chair, death chair, hot seat]
chair
(verb)
1: act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years" [syn: chairman]
2: preside over; "John moderated the discussion" [syn: moderate, lead]