What is the meaning of seat?

noun

• A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane. )
  • usage: "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place"
  • synonyms: place
• The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
  • usage: "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing"
  • synonyms: 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
• Furniture that is designed for sitting on.
  • usage: "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. )
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "the brain is said to be the seat of reason"
• The legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body.
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "the seat of his pants was worn through"

verb

• Show to a seat; assign a seat for.
  • usage: "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"
  • synonyms: sit, sit down
• Be able to seat.
  • usage: "The theater seats 2, 000"
• Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position.
  • usage: "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
  • synonyms: induct, invest
• Put a seat on a chair.
• Provide with seats.
  • usage: "seat a concert hall"
• Place or attach firmly in or on a base.
  • usage: "seat the camera on the tripod"
• Place in or on a seat.
  • usage: "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"