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Seat

Seat Meaning & Definition
Seat Definition And Meaning

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

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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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