A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest. It may...
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The chair, also chairman, chairwoman, or chairperson, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly...
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papasan chair (also called a bowl chair or oval chair) is a type of bowl-shaped chair. A papasan chair is a large rounded bowl-shaped chair with an adjustable...
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electric chair is a specialized device used for capital punishment through electrocution. The condemned is strapped to a custom wooden chair and electrocuted...
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An X-chair (also scissors chair, Dante chair or Savonarola chair) is a chair with an X-shaped frame. It was known to have been used in Ancient Egypt,...
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Chairs are known to have existed since Ancient Egypt and have been widespread in the Western world from the Greeks and Romans onwards. They were in common...
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The Adirondack chair is an outdoor lounge chair with wide armrests, a tall slatted back, and a seat that is higher in the front than the back. Its name...
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The Tulip chair was designed by Eero Saarinen in 1955 and 1956 for the Knoll company of New York City. The designs were initially entitled the 'Pedestal...
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revolving chair is a chair with a single central leg that allows the seat to rotate 360 degrees to the left or right. A concept of a rotating chair with swivel...
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The Chair may refer to: The Chair (Aintree Racecourse), a fence on the British horse racing course The Chair (film), 2007 The Chair (game show), an American...
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A bath chair—or Bath chair—was a rolling chaise or light carriage for one person with a folding hood, which could be open or closed. Used especially by...
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beach chair in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Beach Chair may refer to: "Beach Chair" (song), a 2006 song by Jay-Z and Chris Martin Beach Chair (film...
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Chair Airlines AG, branded as chair and formerly named Germania Flug, is a Swiss airline headquartered in Glattbrugg in Greater Zurich and based at Zurich...
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A wing chair (also, wing-back chair, wing-back or armchair) is an easy chair or club chair with "wings" attached to the back of the chair, typically, but...
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Adirondack chair Aeron chair Barcelona chair Cantilever chair Curule chair Faldstool Glastonbury chair Grand Confort List of chairs Turned chair Watchman's...
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chair or Bárány chair is a device used for aerospace physiology training, particularly for student pilots. The subject is placed in the swivel chair,...
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An office chair, or desk chair, is a type of chair that is designed for use at a desk in an office. It is usually a swivel chair, with a set of wheels...
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The love chair (French: siège d'amour) was a device created by a French furniture manufacturer to allow the British King Edward VII to have sex with two...
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A director's chair is a lightweight chair that folds side-to-side with a scissors action. The seat and back are made of canvas or a similar strong fabric...
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The Coronation Chair, also known as St Edward's Chair or King Edward's Chair, is an ancient wooden chair on which British monarchs sit when they are invested...
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A high chair is a piece of furniture used for feeding older babies and younger toddlers. The seat is raised a fair distance from the ground, so that a...
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A massage chair is a chair designed for massages. It can refer to two types of products. Traditional massage chairs allow a massage therapist to easily...
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In politics, a party chair (often party chairperson/-man/-woman or party president) is the presiding officer of a political party. The nature and importance...
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A bosun's chair (or boatswain's chair) is a device used to suspend a person from a rope to perform work aloft. Originally just a short plank or swath...
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A parking chair is a chair that is used by a vehicle owner to informally mark a parking space as reserved. Other objects are also used for this purpose...
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The Harkonnen Chairs are a series of H. R. Giger's furniture designs. They were manufactured by hand chiefly out of aluminium or black fiberglass and made...
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Look up chair in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A chair is a piece of furniture. Chair or chairs may also refer to: Chair (academic), a professor, generally...
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would be the fourth feature film in the series, instead of The Silver Chair. It was rumoured that The Magician's Nephew was chosen in an attempt to...
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A gaming chair is a type of chair marketed towards gamers. They differ from most office chairs in having high backrest designed to support the upper back...
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is a partial list of chairs with descriptions, with internal or external cross-references about most of the chairs. For other chair-like types (like bench...
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