Chair vs. Stool

Chairnoun

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.

Chairnoun

(music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

Chairnoun

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

Chairnoun

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

Chairnoun

A distinguished professorship at a university.

Chairnoun

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

Chairverb

(transitive) to act as chairperson at; to preside over

Chairverb

(transitive) to carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory

Chairverb

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

Chairnoun

A movable single seat with a back.

Chairnoun

An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

Chairnoun

The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

Chairnoun

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

Chairnoun

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

Chairverb

To place in a chair.

Chairverb

To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

Chairverb

To function as chairperson of (a meeting, committee, etc.); as, he chaired the meeting.

Chairnoun

a seat for one person, with a support for the back;

Chairnoun

the position of professor;

Chairnoun

the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;

Chairnoun

an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair;

Chairverb

act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university;

Chairverb

preside over;

Chair

One of the basic pieces of furniture, a chair is a type of seat. Its primary features are two pieces of a durable material, attached as back and seat to one another at a 90° or slightly greater angle, with usually the four corners of the horizontal seat attached in turn to four legs—or other parts of the seat's underside attached to three legs or to a shaft about which a four-arm turnstile on rollers can turn—strong enough to support the weight of a person who sits on the seat (usually wide and broad enough to hold the lower body from the buttocks almost to the knees) and leans against the vertical back (usually high and wide enough to support the back to the shoulder blades).

Stoolnoun

A seat for one person without a back or armrest, particularly:

Stoolnoun

A footstool.

Stoolnoun

A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.

Stoolnoun

Throne.

Stoolnoun

(horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

Stoolnoun

(obsolete) A seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.

Stoolnoun

Feces, excrement.

Stoolnoun

A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling: a shit.

Stoolnoun

(archaic) A decoy.

Stoolnoun

(nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.

Stoolnoun

Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Stoolnoun

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

Stoolverb

To produce stool: to defecate.

Stoolverb

(horticulture) To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

Stoolverb

(agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

Stoolnoun

A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

Stoolnoun

A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.

Stoolnoun

A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.

Stoolnoun

A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.

Stoolnoun

A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.

Stoolnoun

A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.

Stoolnoun

A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.

Stoolnoun

Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Stoolverb

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

Stoolnoun

a simple seat without a back or arms

Stoolnoun

solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Stoolnoun

(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

Stoolnoun

a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Stoolverb

lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

Stoolverb

react to a decoy, of wildfowl

Stoolverb

grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

Stoolverb

have a bowel movement;