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Seat

noun

1.

A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane). Synonym: place. "He sat in someone else's place"

2.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

3.

Furniture that is designed for sitting on.

4.

Any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit).

5.

A center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised).

6.

The location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based.

7.

The legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body.

8.

A part of a machine that supports or guides another part.

9.

The cloth covering for the buttocks.

verb

(past & past part. seated; pres. part. seating)

1.

Show to a seat; assign a seat for. Synonyms: sit, sit down.

2.

Be able to seat.

3.

Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position. Synonyms: induct, invest.

4.

Put a seat on a chair.

5.

Provide with seats.

6.

Place or attach firmly in or on a base.

7.

Place in or on a seat.

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"Seat" Quotes from Famous Books

... with the fun of them, already spent? There were sequences he had missed and great gaps in the procession: he might have been watching it all recede in a golden cloud of dust. If the playhouse wasn't closed his seat had at least fallen to somebody else. He had had an uneasy feeling the night before that if he was at the theatre at all—though he indeed justified the theatre, in the specific sense, and with a ...

— The Ambassadors • Henry James

... willingly complied. Meanwhile the Indian girl, who had been roused by his sudden entrance, resumed her seat on the saddle, and, looking intently into his black face, seemed to try to gather from the expression of his features ...

— The Rover of the Andes - A Tale of Adventure on South America • R.M. Ballantyne

... have been blown up if the police had grown inquisitive," he said, with a shrug of his shoulders, returning to his seat. ...

— Winds of the World • Talbot Mundy

... Each of the assassins chose his victim, poisoned his dagger, devoted his life, and secretly repaired to the scene of action. Their resolution was equally desperate: but the first mistook the person of Amrou, and stabbed the deputy who occupied his seat; the prince of Damascus was dangerously hurt by the second; the lawful caliph, in the mosch of Cufa, received a mortal wound from the hand of the third. He expired in the sixty-third year of his age, and mercifully recommended to his children, that they would ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 5 • Edward Gibbon

... was a nightmare, and it was characterised from the very beginning by atrocious prejudice and injustice. The High Priests of Law were weary of being balked; eager to make an end. As soon as the Judge took his seat, Sir Edward Clarke applied that the defendants should be tried separately. As they had already been acquitted on the charge of conspiracy, there was no reason why ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

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