chair vs position

position vs chair

chair and position both are nouns.

chair and position both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chair	Yes	No	Yes	No
position	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, position is a hypernym of chair; that is, position is a word with a broader meaning than chair:

chair: the position of professor
position: a job in an organization

Other hypernyms of chair include berth, office, place, post, situation.

chair (noun)	position (noun)
the position of professor	the act of putting something in a certain place
a seat for one person, with a support for the back	a job in an organization
an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person	(in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
a particular seat in an orchestra	the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization	the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
	the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
	the arrangement of the body and its limbs
	a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
	a rationalized mental attitude
	an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
	an item on a list or in a sequence
	the particular portion of space occupied by something
	a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
	the appropriate or customary location
	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
	a condition or position in which you find yourself

chair (verb)	position (verb)
preside over	put into a certain place or abstract location
act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university	cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation

Difference between chair and position

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