different between chair vs seesaw

English

Alternative forms

• chur (Bermuda)

Etymology

From Middle English chayer, chaire, chaiere, chaere, chayre, chayere, from Old French chaiere, chaere, from Latin cathedra (“seat”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (kathédra), from ???? (katá, “down”) + ???? (hédra, “seat”). Displaced native stool and settle, which now have more specialised senses. Doublet of cathedra and chaise.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t????(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?????/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: chare

Noun

chair (plural chairs)

1. 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.

2. Clipping of chairperson.
3. (music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

4. (rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.
5. (chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
6. (slang, with the) Ellipsis of electric chair (the execution device).

7. (education) A distinguished professorship at a university.
8. A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.
9. The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Assamese: ?????? (sear)
• ? Bengali: ?????? (cear), ????? (cêr)
• ? Oriya: ????? (cear), ?????? (ciyar), ???? (ciarô)

Translations

Verb

chair (third-person singular simple present chairs, present participle chairing, simple past and past participle chaired)

1. (transitive) To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
2. (transitive) To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
   • 1896, A. E. Houseman, "To An Athlete Dying Young," in A Shropshire Lad

     The time you won your town the race

     We chaired you through the marketplace.

3. (transitive, Wales, Britain) To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

Translations

Anagrams

• Archi, Chira, archi-

French

Etymology

From Middle French chair, char, from Old French char, charn (earlier carn), from Latin carnem, accusative of car?, from Proto-Italic *kar?, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *(s)ker-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophones: chaire, chaires, chairs, cher, chers, chère, chères, cherres
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

chair f (plural chairs)

1. flesh

Derived terms

• bien en chair
• chair à canon
• chair de poule
• en chair et en os
• ni chair ni poisson

Related terms

Further reading

• “chair” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gallo

Etymology

From Old French cheoir, from Latin cado, cognate with French choir.

Verb

chair

1. to fall
2. to crash

Manx

Adjective

chair

1. Lenited form of cair.

Noun

chair f

1. Lenited form of cair.

Mutation

Middle French

Alternative forms

• char

Etymology

From Old French char, charn, from Latin carnem, accusative singular of car?.

Noun

chair f (plural chairs)

1. flesh

Descendants

• French: chair

Old French

Verb

chair

1. alternative infinitive of cheoir.

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem chié distinct from the unstressed stem che, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

English

Alternative forms

• see-saw

Etymology

Probably a frequentative imitative of rhythmic back-and-forth, up-and-down or zigzagging motion, such as teeter-totter, zigzag, flip-flop, ping pong, etc., under the umbrella term of reduplication; also likely influenced by the verbs see and saw of either present or past tense.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?s??/

Noun

seesaw (plural seesaws)

1. A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

   Synonym: teeter-totter

2. A series of up-and-down movements.
3. A series of alternating movements or feelings.

   • He has been arguing in a circle; there is thus a see-saw between the hypothesis and the fact.

Translations

Verb

seesaw (third-person singular simple present seesaws, present participle seesawing, simple past and past participle seesawed)

1. (intransitive) To use a seesaw.
2. (intransitive, by extension) To fluctuate.
3. (transitive) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.
   • 1832, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram

     He see-saws himself to and fro.

Translations

Adjective

seesaw (comparative more seesaw, superlative most seesaw)

1. fluctuating.

Anagrams

• Weases