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Meaning of SEAT

Pronunciation:  seet

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [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"
  2. [n]  furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests"
  3. [n]  the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through"
  4. [n]  the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
  5. [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"
  6. [n]  a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
  7. [v]  show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"
  8. [v]  provide with seats, as of a concert hall, for example
  9. [v]  put a seat on a chair
  10. [v]  place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "We were inducted into the honor society"
  11. [v]  be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000"
 
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 Synonyms: 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
 
 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

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \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.

  2. \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.

  3. \Seat\, v. i.
To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] --Spenser.
 

 

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