Something you can sit on, especially if it's a bench, stool, sofa, or chair, is a seat. Most bicycles have one seat, while many motorcycles have two seats.
The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
Noun
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"
Noun
furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests"
Noun
the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through"
Noun
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?"
Noun
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"
Noun
a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)
Verb
show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"
Verb
provide with seats; "seat a concert hall"
Verb
put a seat on a chair
Verb
place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
Verb
be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000"
n.
The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made
to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
n.
The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing
is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a
situation.
n.
That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of
a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
n.
A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of
sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera
house.
n.
Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
n.
A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as,
a valve seat.
v. t.
To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat
one's self.
v. t.
To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like;
to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
v. t.
To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting
to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
v. t.
To fix; to set firm.
v. t.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a
country.
v. t.
To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
v. i.
To rest; to lie down.
Seat
And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.2.
Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.3.
She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.6.
Seat
The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.2.
Thus high . . . is King Richard seated.
They had seated themselves in New Guiana.3.
From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills.5.
Seat
The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
To place on a seat; to cause to sit down;
To rest; to lie down.
Usage Examples
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.
My dad has been married to his wife for 15 years and wherever he goes there better be a seat for her. I like real couples that tell you how to get through on Wednesdays when you're just at the end of your rope - the ones who really know how to make it through. We have to stop looking at Hollywood couples because you're going to get disappointed.
Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.
It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.
But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.
I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.
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Other Usage ExamplesIf I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
I hope to die in the saddle seat.
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.
Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.
Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in.
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