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Seat Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Seat?
[n] any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down"
[n] furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests" [n] the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through" [n] the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on [n] a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" [n] a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) [v] show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" [v] provide with seats, as of a concert hall, for example [v] put a seat on a chair [v] place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "We were inducted into the honor society" [v] be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000" Synonyms | Synonyms for Seat: arse | ass | backside | behind | bottom | bum | buns | butt | buttocks | can | derriere | fanny | fundament | hind end | hindquarters | induct | invest | keister | nates | place | posterior | prat | rear | rear end | rump | sit | sit down | stern | tail | tail end | tooshie | tush Related Terms | Find terms related to Seat: See Also | article of furniture | backbench | backseat | balloon seat | banch | bell seat | bench | bicycle seat | boatswain's chair | body | body part | bosun's chair | box | box seat | bucket seat | capital | capsule | car seat | center | centre | chair | cloth covering | cockpit | contain | couch | county courthouse | county seat | county town | crossbench | ejection seat | ejector seat | eye | frontbench | furnish | furniture | hassock | heart | hold | houdah | howdah | install | jump seat | La Paz | lay | lounge | middle | ottoman | pants | perch | piece of furniture | pillion | place | plane seat | pose | position | pouf | pouffe | provide | put | render | reseat | reseat | rumble | rumble seat | saddle | seat | seating | seating area | seating room | seats | see | set | shire town | Siege Perilous | skirt | sliding seat | sofa | space | stool | supply | support | take | toilet seat | torso | trousers | trunk | upholstery Seat In Webster's Dictionary \Seat\, n. [OE. sete, Icel. s[ae]ti; akin to Sw. s["a]te,
Dan. s[ae]de, MHG. s[=a]ze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit.
[root]154. See {Sit}, and cf. {Settle}, n.]
1. The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything
made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool,
saddle, or the like.
And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money
changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.
--Matt. xxi.
12.
2. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or
thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a
station; a post; a situation.
Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
--Rev. ii. 13.
He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat
committeth himself to prison. --Bacon.
A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.
--Macaulay.
3. That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat
of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
4. A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of
sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in
the opera house.
5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted
with any mount. --G. Eliot.
6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface
rests; as, a valve seat.
{Seat worm} (Zo["o]l.), the pinworm.
\Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seating}.] 1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self. The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. --Arbuthnot. 2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. --Shak. They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W. Raleigh. 3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church. 4. To fix; to set firm. From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills. --Milton. 5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] --W. Stith. 6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair. \Seat\, v. i. To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] --Spenser. |
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