English words for 'Alternative spelling of deck chair.'
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noun
- Pronunciation spelling of chair.
- (chiefly Canada, US) Cheerleading, especially when practiced as a competitive sport.
- (countable) A chant made in support of a team at a sports event.
- (countable) A cry expressing joy, approval or support, such as "hurrah".
- (now uncountable) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness, especially food and entertainment prepared for a festive occasion.
- (uncountable) A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood.
- the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
- a cry or shout of approval
verb
- (transitive) To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
- (transitive) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
- (ambitransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.
- (transitive, figurative) To feel or express enthusiasm for (something).
- give encouragement to
- cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful
- become cheerful
- show approval or good wishes by shouting
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
noun
- (furniture) An upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
- (cooking) A paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat.
- (cycling) A sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.
- (biology) A sheath of microtubules which surrounds and extends tailwards from the nucleus of developing spermatids.
- (printing) A vertical heading within a newspaper article.
- (fencing) A special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand.
- (chiefly historical) An ornamental trimming round the lower part of a sleeve, or a ruffle (of hair, etc.) of similar appearance.
noun
- A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
- Something to be sat upon.
- (figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
- (aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.
- Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
- The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.
- A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
- The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
- (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
- (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
- (law, England and Wales) One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.
- The location of a governing body.
- (historical) Any of several autonomous regions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
- The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
- The starting point of a fire.
- A place in which to sit.
- a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
- a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
- any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)
- the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- furniture that is designed for sitting on
- the cloth covering for the buttocks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body
verb
- (transitive) To provide with a place to sit.
- (transitive) To assign the seats of.
- To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- (transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.
- (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
- (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- place in or on a seat
- put a seat on a chair
- provide with seats
- be able to seat
- place or attach firmly in or on a base
- place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
noun
adj
- (figuratively, derogatory) Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice.
- (figuratively) Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.
verb
noun
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
verb
noun
- A rocking chair.
- A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
- A musician who plays rock music.
- (informal) A rock music song.
- (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
- A rocker board.
- One who rocks something.
- A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
- (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
- Someone passionate about rock music.
- A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
- A rocking horse.
- (engineering) A rock shaft.
- A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
- The breve below as in ḫ.
- (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
- a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
- a performer or composer or fan of rock music
- a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
- an ice skate with a curved blade
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- a chair mounted on rockers
noun
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair.
- (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- (horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- (chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.
- (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
- A footstool.
- (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
- (rare) Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).
- (West Africa) A royal seat; a chief's throne.
- A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
- a simple seat without a back or arms
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
verb
- (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
- (chiefly medicine) To produce stool: to defecate.
- (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
- have a bowel movement
- lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
- react to a decoy, of wildfowl
noun
- Pronunciation spelling of chair.
- (chiefly Canada, US) Cheerleading, especially when practiced as a competitive sport.
- (countable) A chant made in support of a team at a sports event.
- (countable) A cry expressing joy, approval or support, such as "hurrah".
- (now uncountable) That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness, especially food and entertainment prepared for a festive occasion.
- (uncountable) A cheerful attitude; happiness; a good, happy, or positive mood.
- the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom
- a cry or shout of approval
verb
- (transitive) To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up.
- (transitive) To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort.
- (ambitransitive) To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts.
- (transitive, figurative) To feel or express enthusiasm for (something).
- give encouragement to
- cause (somebody) to feel happier or more cheerful
- become cheerful
- show approval or good wishes by shouting
- spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
noun
- (furniture) An upholstered arm on a wooden-frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil.
- (cooking) A paper frill attached to the exposed end of a bone of a cooked piece of meat.
- (cycling) A sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes and made of materials that reduce wind drag.
- (biology) A sheath of microtubules which surrounds and extends tailwards from the nucleus of developing spermatids.
- (printing) A vertical heading within a newspaper article.
- (fencing) A special glove cover worn by fencers, specifically sabreurs, on their weapon hand.
- (chiefly historical) An ornamental trimming round the lower part of a sleeve, or a ruffle (of hair, etc.) of similar appearance.
noun
- A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
- Something to be sat upon.
- (figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
- (aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.
- Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
- The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
- The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.
- A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
- The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
- (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
- (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
- (law, England and Wales) One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.
- The location of a governing body.
- (historical) Any of several autonomous regions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
- The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
- The starting point of a fire.
- A place in which to sit.
- a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
- a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
- any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)
- the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based
- a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- furniture that is designed for sitting on
- the cloth covering for the buttocks
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body
verb
- (transitive) To provide with a place to sit.
- (transitive) To assign the seats of.
- To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
- (transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.
- (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
- (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
- (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
- (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- place in or on a seat
- put a seat on a chair
- provide with seats
- be able to seat
- place or attach firmly in or on a base
- place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
noun
adj
- (figuratively, derogatory) Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice.
- (figuratively) Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.
verb
noun
- (technical, historical) The contouring of the wooden seat of a chair.
- The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
- (UK, colloquial) The act of thoroughly cleaning something.
- (dyeing) A substance used to prepare a material for dyeing.
- Residue left at the bottom of something.
- Material used to line the bottom of something.
- A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
verb
noun
- A rocking chair.
- A skate with a curved blade, somewhat resembling in shape the rocker of a cradle.
- Any implement or machine working with a rocking motion, such as a trough mounted on rockers for separating gold dust from gravel, etc., by agitation in water.
- A musician who plays rock music.
- (informal) A rock music song.
- (military) A curved line accompanying the chevrons that denote rank, qualifying the rank with a grade.
- A rocker board.
- One who rocks something.
- A kind of electrical switch with a spring-loaded actuator.
- (UK) A member of a British subculture of the 1960s, opposed to the mods, who dressed in black leather and were interested in 1950s music.
- Someone passionate about rock music.
- A tool with small teeth that roughens a metal plate to produce tonality in mezzotints.
- A rocking horse.
- (engineering) A rock shaft.
- A curved piece of wood attached to the bottom of a rocking chair or cradle that enables it to rock back and forth.
- The breve below as in ḫ.
- (surfing) The lengthwise curvature of a surfboard. (More rocker is a more curved board.)
- a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro
- a performer or composer or fan of rock music
- a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles
- an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle
- an ice skate with a curved blade
- a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold
- a chair mounted on rockers
noun
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair.
- (US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
- (horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- (chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.
- (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.
- (chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
- A footstool.
- (nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
- (rare) Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).
- (West Africa) A royal seat; a chief's throne.
- A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
- (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
- a simple seat without a back or arms
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
verb
- (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
- (chiefly medicine) To produce stool: to defecate.
- (horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
- grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
- have a bowel movement
- lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
- react to a decoy, of wildfowl