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chair



cadeira
cadeira


Definições

inglês > português
chair
     1. Substantivo. cadeira
     2. Substantivo. o líder de uma reunião, encontro, etc
     3. Verbo. agir como o líder de uma reunião, encontro, etc
inglês > inglês
chair
     1. n. 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.
     2. n. clipping of chairperson
           Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions.
     3. n. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.
           My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops.
     4. n. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
     5. n. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
     6. n. (slang) (ellipsis of electric chair)
           He killed a cop: he's going to get the chair.
           The court will show no mercy; if he gets convicted, it's the chair for him.
     7. n. A distinguished professorship at a university.
     8. n. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
     9. v. To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
           Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting.
     10. v. To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
     11. v. (transitive, Wales, UK) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.
           The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod.
português > inglês
cadeira
     1. n-f. chair (item of furniture)
     2. n-f. subject (at the university)
     3. n-f. (anatomy) hip

Pronúncia




Exemplos

He sits in this chair when he watches television.
    Ele senta-se nesta cadeira quando assista televisão.
There's nothing under the chair.
    Não tem nada debaixo da cadeira.
Is the cat on the chair or under the chair?
    O gato está em cima ou embaixo da cadeira?
The chair you're sitting in is the one I sat in yesterday.
    A cadeira na qual você está sentado é a na qual me sentei ontem.
It is under the chair.
    Ele está debaixo da cadeira.



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