armchair vs chair

armchair

noun
  • A chair with supports for the arms or elbows. 

  • Hypernyms: chair, furniture 

adj
  • Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement. 

  • Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice. 

verb
  • To create based on theory or general knowledge rather than data. 

  • To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; to reflect. 

chair

noun
  • An item of furniture used to sit on or in, comprising a seat, legs or wheels, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench. 

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

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

  • An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices. 

  • A distinguished professorship at a university. 

  • The seat or office of a person in authority, such as a judge or bishop. 

  • The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra. 

verb
  • To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod. 

  • To act as chairperson at; to preside over. 

  • To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory. 

How often have the words armchair and chair occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )