meaning of seat
1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat ones self.
2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
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.
5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
7. To rest; to lie down.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
13. A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
14. 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
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Related Words
seat | seat belt | seat cushion | seated | seating | seating area | seating capacity | seating room | seatless | seats | seattle | seattle slew |
