(transitive, debating) To draw attention to (a person who is absent from a debate) by providing an empty podium or chair which they would have occupied.

Alternative form of separate the wheat from the chaff

plural of chain-smoker

(informal) To take a risk.

(academia) An informal lecture on an academic subject. / A music hall act in which a performer makes chalk caricatures whilst reciting a monologue

plural of chalk talk

(algebraic topology) A sequence of Abelian groups, together with a sequence of boundary homomorphisms.

(chemistry) the most stable chemical conformation of a six-membered single bonded carbon ring such as cyclohexane

Alternative form of chance'd be a fine thing

plural of chain locker