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Seating   /sˈitɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Seating  n.  
1.
The act of providing 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.



verb
Seat  v. t.  (past & past part. seated; pres. part. 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."
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." "They had seated themselves in New Guiana."
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."
5.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. (Obs.)
6.
To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.



Seat  v. i.  To rest; to lie down. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Seating" Quotes from Famous Books



... was ample for the present meal at least, and both Navajos, seating themselves upon a projecting rock, almost devoured the food which was ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay

... unhappy man was in no haste to obey. For half an hour he paced to and fro in the solitude of that large apartment, now seating himself on the sofa which poor Florence had just left, and again starting up with a sort of insane desire for motion. Sometimes he would listen, with checked breath, to the footsteps moving to and fro in the chamber over-head, and then ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 • Various

... stripped the woods of their summer glory, and the weather was no longer warm, the heat-loving creatures deserted the empty lot, except the silver tabby, who often came out and sauntered through its lonely paths, smelling of the weeds here and there, seating himself in a bower that was still green, rubbing his face against something he found there, and evidently enjoying sufficient society in his own thoughts, for to him ...
— Upon The Tree-Tops • Olive Thorne Miller

... features, could not fail of exciting interest where her sister commanded admiration. Not a word, however, from either did Marmaduke abstract in return for his courtesies, nor did either he or the earl seem to expect it; for the latter, seating himself and drawing Anne on his knee, while Isabella walked with stately grace towards the table that bore her father's warlike accoutrements, and played, as it were, unconsciously with the black plume on his black ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... kinda war no more, you may bank on that," said the postmaster, seating himself on a nail keg. "Things is too much mixed up for that. Why, trade and commerce wouldn't stand it for two days. The banks would all go busted and business would stop. And the world has got to a place when business means more than anything else. So there'll not be much of a war. ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith


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