chair
/tʃɛː/
US pronunciation
American sound/tʃɛː/
chair
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Long vowel
- Ending
- Final r is pronounced in US English
US voice -> chair
Myanmar meaning
(n) ကုလားထိုင်။ သဘာပတိ။ ပါမောက္ခရာထူး။ (v) သဘာပတိမူသည်။
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chair /tʃeǝ(r)/ n
၁။ [C] ကုလားထိုင်။
a table and chairs ❍ Have a chair (ie Sit down).
၂။ the chair [sing] သဘာပတိ။
She takes the chair in all our meetings. ❍ Who is in the chair today? ❍ All remarks should be addressed to the chair. ❍ GENDER
၃။ [C] ပါမောက္ခရာထူး။
He holds the chair of philosophy at Oxford.
၄။ the chair [sing] (US infml ) = the electric chair See also musical chairs
v သဘာပတိမူသည်။
Who's chairing the meeting?
❏ chair-lift n (တောင်တက်တောင်ဆင်းအတွက်) ကုလားထိုင် အစီအရီချိတ်ဆွဲ ထားသော စက်ခါးပတ်ကြိုး။
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Synonyms
preside over, take the chair, lead, control the discussion, oversee, manage, armchair, bench, captain, cathedra, chairperson, direct, director, fellowship, head, helm, instructorship, leader, monitor, position of control, preside, president, presiding officer, principal, professorate, professorship, recliner, rocker, single-seat furniture, sling, throne, tutor, tutorship
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