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Chair Meaning French Seat Sitting Latin Presiding Person

正面 8023.chair
英 [tʃeə]美 [tʃɛr]

背面
释义:
n. 椅子;讲座;(会议的)主席位;大学教授的职位vt. 担任(会议的)主席;使…入座;使就任要职n. (Chair)人名;(法)谢尔
例句:
1. He sat penitently in his chair by the window.他懊悔地坐在靠窗的椅子上。

1. 英语polish的译音。旧译作“泡立司”。即虫胶清漆。参见“ 虫胶清漆 ”虫胶清漆:又名泡立水、酒精凡立水,也简称漆片。2. 记法 1: polish音“跑来洗”→跑过来洗车→擦亮
chair 椅子,主持来自拉丁词cathedra,cat-, 向下,-hed,坐,同sit, seat. 比喻义主持,权威。比较holy seat, 圣座。
chairchair: [13] Chair comes ultimately from Greek kathédrā ‘seat’ (source also of cathedral, of course), which was a compound originally meaning literally ‘something for sitting down on’ – it was formed from katá- ‘down’ and *hed- ‘sit’. It produced Latin cathedra, which in Old French became chaiere, the source of the English word.The use of chair specifically for the seat occupied by someone presiding at a meeting dates from the mid 17th century, and its metaphorical extension to the person sitting in it, as symbolizing his or her office – as in ‘address one’s remarks to the chair’ – is virtually contemporary (‘The Chair behaves himself like a Busby amongst so many schoolboys’, Thomas Burton’s Diary, 23 March 1658); but its use as a synonym for chairperson, to avoid a distinction on grounds of sex, is a late 20th-century development.=> cathedralchair (n.)early 13c., chaere, from Old French chaiere "chair, seat, throne" (12c.; Modern French chaire "pulpit, throne;" the more modest sense having gone since 16c. with variant form chaise), from Latin cathedra "seat" (see cathedral). Figurative sense of "authority" was in Middle English, of bishops and professors. Meaning "office of a professor" (1816) is extended from the seat from which a professor lectures (mid-15c.). Meaning "seat of a person presiding at meeting" is from 1640s. As short for electric chair from 1900.chair (v.)mid-15c., "install in a chair or seat" (implied in chairing), from chair (n.); meaning "preside over" (a meeting, etc.) is attested by 1921. Related: Chaired."

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