Chairman vs. Gavel
Difference Between Chairman and Gavel
Chairmannoun
A person presiding over a meeting.
Gavelnoun
(historical) Rent.
Chairmannoun
The head of a corporate or governmental board of directors, a committee, or other formal entity.
Gavelnoun
(obsolete) Usury; interest on money.
Chairmannoun
(historical) Someone whose job is to carry people in a portable chair, sedan chair, or similar conveyance.
Gavelnoun
(historical) An old Saxon and Welsh form of tenure by which an estate passed, on the holder's death, to all the sons equally.
Chairmanverb
To serve as chairman.
Gavelnoun
A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge (not UK), 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.
Chairmannoun
the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;
address your remarks to the chairpersonGavelnoun
The legal system as a whole (not UK).
Chairmanverb
act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university;
She chaired the department for many yearsGavelnoun
A mason's setting maul.
Gavelnoun
A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle.
Gavelverb
To use a gavel.
The judge gavelled for order in the courtroom after the defendant burst out with a confession.Gavelnoun
a small mallet used by a presiding officer or a judge
