Chairman vs. Gavel: What's the Difference?

Chairman and Gavel Definitions
Chairman
The presiding officer of an assembly, meeting, committee, or board.
Gavel
One that a judge or presiding officer raps to signal for order.
Chairman
The administrative head of a department of instruction, as at a college.
Gavel
One that an auctioneer raps to mark the end of a transaction.
Chairman
To act as chairman of
Chaired the panel of experts.
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Gavel
A maul used by masons in fitting stones.
Chairman
A person presiding over a meeting.
Gavel
Tribute or rent in ancient and medieval England.
Chairman
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
Gavel
To bring about or compel by using a gavel
"The chairman ... tries to gavel the demonstration to an end" (New Yorker).
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Chairman
(historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
Gavel
(historical) Rent.
Chairman
To serve as chairman.
Gavel
(obsolete) Usury; interest on money.
Chairman
The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
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Gavel
(historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally; also called gavelkind.
Chairman
One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan.
Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses.
Gavel
A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.
Chairman
The officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;
Address your remarks to the chairperson
Gavel
The legal system as a whole.
Chairman
Act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university;
She chaired the department for many years
Gavel
A mason's setting maul.
Gavel
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
Gavel
(transitive) To divide or distribute according to the gavel system.
Gavel
To use a gavel.
The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession.
Gavel
A gable.
Gavel
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
Gavel
The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.
Gavel
A mason's setting maul.
Gavel
Tribute; toll; custom. [Obs.] See Gabel.
Gavel
A small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge