Sofa vs. Chair

Sofanoun

A raised area of a building's floor, usually covered with carpeting, used for sitting.

Sofanoun

(furniture) A upholstered seat with a raised back and one or two raised ends, long enough to comfortably accommodate two or more people.

Sofanoun

A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; - much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.

Sofanoun

an upholstered seat for more than one person

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).