Seat : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Seat	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seat 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" Synonym(s): seat, place 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?" Synonym(s): buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests" 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" a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based; "the brain is said to be the seat of reason" the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body; "he was elected to a seat in the Senate" a part of a machine that supports or guides another part the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through" v show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" Synonym(s): seat, sit, sit down be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000" place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy" Synonym(s): induct, invest, seat put a seat on a chair provide with seats; "seat a concert hall" place or attach firmly in or on a base; "seat the camera on the tripod" place in or on a seat; "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seat \Seat\, n. [OE. sete, Icel. s[91]ti; akin to Sw. s[84]te, Dan. s[91]de, MHG. s[amac]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[94]l.), the pinworm.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seat \Seat\, v. i. To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 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.