seating : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: seating	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seating n an area that includes places where several people can sit; "there is seating for 40 students in this classroom" Synonym(s): seating, seats, seating room, seating area the service of ushering people to their seats
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seating \Seat"ing\, n. 1. The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience. 2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.
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.