Dictionary Definition
seat
Noun
1 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" [syn: place]
2 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?" [syn: 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]
3 furniture that is designed for sitting on;
"there were not enough seats for all the guests"
4 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"
5 a center of authority (as a city from which
authority is exercised)
6 the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat
of his pants was worn through"
Verb
2 be able to seat; "The theater seats
2,000"
3 place ceremoniously or formally in an office or
position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the
Academy" [syn: induct,
invest]
4 put a seat on a chair
5 provide with seats; "seat a concert hall"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -iːt
Noun
- A place in which to
sit.
- There are two hundred seats in this classroom.
- The horizontal
portion of a chair or
other furniture
designed for sitting.
- He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat which always annoyed his mother.
- A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench.
- She pulled the seat away from the table and, while he sat down, pushed it back in again.
- The part of an object
or individual (notably the buttocks) directly involved in
sitting.
- Place the seat of your pants on the seat of this chair.
- The part of a piece of clothing on which one sits.
- As he walked away she deftly kicked him in the seat of his pants to hurry him along.
- A membership in
an organization, particularly a representative body.
- Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.
- The location of a
governing body.
- Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.
- In the context of "certain Commonwealth countries": an electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
Translations
place in which to sit
- Dutch: zitplaats
- Finnish: istumapaikka
- Japanese: 席
- Portuguese: assento
- Russian: сиденье, место
- Serbian: sedište
- Spanish: asiento
part of an object or individual directly
involved in sitting
- Dutch: zitvlak (person)
- Finnish: istuin (object), takamus (person)
- Japanese: 座部
- Russian: седалище
membership in a representative body
- Dutch: zetel
- Finnish: paikka
- Japanese: 席, 籍
- Russian: место, пост
location of a governing body
- Dutch: zetel
- Finnish: istuntopaikka
- Japanese: 中枢
- Portuguese: sede
electoral district
- Finnish: vaalipiiri
- Japanese: 中枢
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 位子 (wèizi) (1), 座位 (zuòwèi)
- ttbc Dutch: zitplaats (1), zitting (2), zetel (3,4)
- ttbc Estonian: iste, istekoht (1)
- ttbc French: siège (1,3,4)
- ttbc German: Sitzplatz
- ttbc Greek: κάθισμα (káthisma) (place to sit), θέση (thési) (place to sit), έδρα (édra) (membership)
- ttbc Hungarian: ülés, ülőhely, hely
- ttbc Italian: sedile
- ttbc Korean: 좌석 (jwaseok)
- ttbc Slovene: sedež (1,2,4)
- ttbc Swedish: sittplats
- ttbc Vietnamese: ghế
Verb
- : To put an object into a place where it will rest.
- Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
- : To provide places to sit.
- This classroom seats two hundred students.
Translations
to put an object into a place
- Finnish: asettaa paikalleen
- Japanese: 設置
to provide places to sit
- Finnish: mahtua, olla tilaa
- Japanese: qualifier to sit 座る, 着席; qualifier stay as a member 在籍
- Chiricahua: binshdaah (I seat him)
Extensive Definition
Seat can refer to:
A place to sit, particularly the area one sits
upon (rather than other elements, like armrests), See:
- Chair
- Car seat
- Airline seat
- Saddle, a type of seat used on the backs of animals, bicycles (see bicycle seat), etc.
- Buttocks, the part of the body on which one sits
A place or office of authority:
- Chair (official), a seat of office, authority, or dignity
- Legislative seat, a membership in a parliament or other legislature
- Seat (legal entity), indicating where the headquarters of the entity are located
- The capital city of an administrative region, such as:
- Country seat, a place in the country
- Throne, the original seat of authority from which others may be derived
- Seat (territorial-administrative unit) territorial-administrative unit in the medieval Hungarian Kingdom
Other:
- SEAT, a Spanish car manufacturer, now owned by the Volkswagen Group (AG)
- Seat Pagine Gialle, the Italian Yellow Pages group
- Single Engine Air Tanker
- SEATS, Signal Extraction in ARIMA Time Series", an Econometric package (Gómez y Maravall, 1996)
seat in Czech: Sídlo
seat in German: Sitz
seat in French: Siège
seat in Finnish: Istuin
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
CP, Eames
chair, GHQ, HQ, Hitchcock chair, TV chair,
abiding place, abode,
accommodate,
address, angle, armchair, armless chair,
arse, ass, back seat, backside, banquette, bar stool, barber
chair, barrel chair, base,
base of operations, basement, basis, basket chair, batwing
chair, beam, bearing wall,
bed, bed chair, bedding, bedrock, behind, bench, bicycle seat, bottom, boudoir chair, bow-back
chair, bucket seat, build,
build in, bum, butt, buttocks, camp chair, campaign
chair, can, cantonment, capital, capital city, center of
authority, central administration, central office, central station,
chair, club chair, club
lounge chair, comb-back chair, command post, company headquarters,
confirm, contain, contour chair, county
seat, county site, county town, cradle, crash pad, crib, cricket, cricket chair, curule
chair, dais, deep-dye,
define, derriere, dining chair,
distance, domicile, domus, draft chair, duff, dwelling, dwelling place, easy
chair, elbowchair,
embed, engraft, engrave, ensconce, enthrone, entrench, establish, estate, etch, fan-back chair, fanny, fauteuil, fender stool,
fix, floor, flooring, focal point, focus, folding chair, foldstool, fond, footing, form, found, foundation, fundament, fundamental, garden chair,
general headquarters, ground, grounds, groundwork, habitation, hardpan, hassock, headquarters, heart, helm, high chair, hindquarters, hold, home, horse, hub, impact, implant, impress, imprint, incumbency, infix, ingrain, inscribe, install, instate, invest, jam, ladder-back chair, lay, lay the foundation, lodge, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, main office, mansion, membership, milking stool,
nerve, nest, ottoman, overstuffed chair,
pack, pad, park, pavement, perspective, pew, pitch, place, place to live, plant, platform rocker, pose, posit, position, post, posterior, principle, print, put, put in, put up, radical, rear end, residence, riprap, rock bottom, rocker, rocking chair, roof, root, rudiment, rump, saddle, seat of government, seat
of power, seat of state, seating, sedan chair, set, set in, set up, settee, settle, shire town, sill, sit, site, sofa, solid ground, solid rock,
stamp, stand, standing, station, status, step stool, stereobate, stereotype, stick, stool, stylobate, submit, substratum, substruction, substructure, swear in,
swing, taboret, tail, terra firma, throne, tush, underbuilding, undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction, understructure, venue, vest, viewpoint, wedge, woolsack