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STRAIGHT CHAIR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does straight chair mean? 

STRAIGHT CHAIR (noun)
  The noun STRAIGHT CHAIR has 1 sense:

1. a straight-backed chair without armsplay

  Familiarity information: STRAIGHT CHAIR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STRAIGHT CHAIR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A straight-backed chair without arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

side chair; straight chair

Hypernyms ("straight chair" is a kind of...):

chair (a seat for one person, with a support for the back)

Meronyms (parts of "straight chair"):

round; rung; stave (a crosspiece between the legs of a chair)

splat (a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "straight chair"):

Windsor chair (straight chair having a shaped seat and a back of many spindles)


 Context examples 


Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) Arising: are you able to stand up from a straight chair?

(HAQ-DI - Able to Stand Up From Chair, NCI Thesaurus)

One October day in nineteen-seventeen—(said Jordan Baker that afternoon, sitting up very straight on a straight chair in the tea-garden at the Plaza Hotel)—I was walking along from one place to another half on the sidewalks and half on the lawns.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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