The difference between Armchair and Chair

When used as nouns, armchair means a chair with supports for the arms or elbows, whereas chair means 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.


Armchair is also adjective with the meaning: remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

Chair is also verb with the meaning: to act as chairperson at.

check bellow for the other definitions of Armchair and Chair

  1. Armchair as a noun:

    A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

  1. Armchair as an adjective (figuratively):

    Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

    Examples:

    "These days I'm an armchair detective."

  2. Armchair as an adjective (figuratively):

    Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports.

    Examples:

    "He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal [[blog]] on the internet."

    "After the American football game, the armchair [[quarterback]]s talked about what they would have done differently to win, if they had been star athletes instead of out-of-shape old men."

  1. Chair as a noun:

    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.

    Examples:

    "All I need to weather a snowstorm is hot coffee, a warm fire, a good book and a comfortable chair."

  2. Chair as a noun:

    Examples:

    "Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions."

  3. Chair as a noun (music):

    The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

    Examples:

    "My violin teacher used to play first chair with the Boston Pops."

  4. Chair as a noun (rail transport):

    An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.

  5. Chair as a noun (chemistry):

    One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

  6. Chair as a noun (slang, with ''the''):

    Examples:

    "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. Chair as a noun:

    A distinguished professorship at a university.

  8. Chair as a noun:

    A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.

  1. Chair as a verb (transitive):

    To act as chairperson at; to preside over.

    Examples:

    "Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting."

  2. Chair as a verb (transitive):

    To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.

  3. Chair as a verb (transitive, Wales, UK):

    To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod.

    Examples:

    "The poet was chaired at the national Eisteddfod."

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