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
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Armchair as a noun:
A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Chair as a noun:
Examples:
"Under the rules of order adopted by the board, the chair may neither make nor second motions."
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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."
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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.
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Chair as a noun (chemistry):
One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.
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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."
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Chair as a noun:
A distinguished professorship at a university.
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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.
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Chair as a verb (transitive):
To act as chairperson at; to preside over.
Examples:
"Bob will chair tomorrow's meeting."
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Chair as a verb (transitive):
To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory.
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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."