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"
- 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"
- Furniture that is designed for sitting on.
- usage: "there were not enough seats for all the guests"
- synonyms: seat
- 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"
- synonyms: seat
- A center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised.
- synonyms: seat
- The location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based.
- usage: "the brain is said to be the seat of reason"
- synonyms: seat
- The legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body.
- usage: "he was elected to a seat in the Senate"
- synonyms: seat
- A part of a machine that supports or guides another part.
- synonyms: seat
- The cloth covering for the buttocks.
- usage: "the seat of his pants was worn through"
- synonyms: seat
- An area that includes places where several people can sit.
- usage: "there is seating for 40 students in this classroom"
- synonyms: seating, seating room, seating area
verb
- Show to a seat; assign a seat for.
- usage: "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"
- Be able to seat.
- usage: "The theater seats 2, 000"
- synonyms: seat
- Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position.
- usage: "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
- Put a seat on a chair.
- synonyms: seat
- Provide with seats.
- usage: "seat a concert hall"
- synonyms: seat
- Place or attach firmly in or on a base.
- usage: "seat the camera on the tripod"
- synonyms: seat
- Place in or on a seat.
- usage: "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"
- synonyms: seat
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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