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Seat   /sit/   Listen
noun
Seat  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."
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." "He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison." "A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity."
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."
6.
(Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
Seat worm (Zool.), the pinworm.


verb
Seat  v. t.  (past & past part. seated; pres. part. 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."
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." "They had seated themselves in New Guiana."
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."
5.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. (Obs.)
6.
To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.


Seat  v. i.  To rest; to lie down. (Obs.)





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"Seat" Quotes from Famous Books



... answered Allis. "Let me put my finger on the number for good luck," and she touched the badge on his arm. "Now I'm going up to get a good seat in the stand," she continued; "I'll leave Lucretia ...
— Thoroughbreds • W. A. Fraser
... pressed to take a seat, and Lennox, to whom Banquo's ghost was invisible, showed him the chair ...
— Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare • E. Nesbit
... these two, of the hindmost seat in the canoe, for the back of each was unspeakable from the spear-prods. Without a word McElroy took his punishment as the lagging became more pronounced from arms overtaxed at the paddles, but the long-haired adventurer from the Saskatchewan ...
— The Maid of the Whispering Hills • Vingie E. Roe
... grand. Such a will, too! That is what I like in a woman. Such a courage! She never flinched in those horrid days, never. And when he called her—you know what—she only looked at him, just looked at him, miserable object. Oh, it was beautiful!" And Madame Gordeloup, rising in her energy from her seat for the purpose, strove to throw upon Harry such another glance as the injured, insulted wife had thrown ...
— The Claverings • Anthony Trollope
... present to Your Majesties the homage of our respects, and to thank you for the noble present you have made to our land in the person of your illustrious daughter, Madame, Duchess of Berry. May the future Queen of Spain long embellish the throne on which she is about to take her seat, and reign over the hearts of her new subjects as her heroic sister reigns over ours. Long live the King! ...
— The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X • Imbert De Saint-Amand


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