Seat : (noun)
1: 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" [syn: place]
2: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit
on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates,
arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament,
hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat,
rear, rear end, rump, stern, tail, tail end,
tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny,
ass]
3: furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not
enough seats for all the guests"
4: 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"
5: a center of authority (as a city from which authority is
exercised)
6: the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants
was worn through"
(verb)
1: show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next
to Mrs. Smith" [syn: sit, sit down]
2: be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000"
3: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position;
"there was a ceremony to induct the president of the
Academy" [syn: induct, invest]
4: put a seat on a chair
5: provide with seats; "seat a concert hall"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Seat : \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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Seat : \Seat\, v. i.
To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Seat : \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.
Based on 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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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