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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SEAT, n. [L. sedes, situs.]
1. That on which one sits; a chair, bench, stool or any other thing on which a person sits.
Christ--overthrew the tables of the money changers and the seats of them that sold doves. Matthew 21.
2. The place of sitting; throne; chair of state; tribunal; post of authority; as the seat of justice; judgment-seat.
3. Mansion; residence; dwelling; abode; as Italy the seat of empire. The Greeks sent colonies to seek a new seat in Gaul.
In Albe he shall fix his royal seat. Dryden.
4. Site; situation. The seat of Eden has never been incontrovertibly ascertained.
5. That part of a saddle on which a person sits.
6. In horsemanship, posture or situation of a perosn on horseback.
7. A pew or slip in a chruch; a place to sit in.
8. The place where a thing is settled or established. London is the seat of business and opulence. So we say, the seat of the muses,the seat of arts, the seat of commerce.
SEAT, v.t.
1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down. We seat ourselves; we seat our guests.
The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
Arbuthnot.
2. To place in a post of authority, in office or a place of distinction. He seated his son in the professor's chair.
Then high was king Richard seated. Shak.
3. To settle; to fix in a particular place or country. A colony of Greeks seated themselves in the south of Italy; another at Massilia in Gaul.
4. To fix; to set firm.
From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They pluck'd the seated hills. Milton.
5. To place in a chruch; to assign seats to. In New England, where the pews in churches are not private property, it is customary to seat families for a year or longer time; that is, assign and appropriate seats to their use.
6. To appropriate the pews in, to particular families; as, to seat a church.
7. To repair by making the seat new; as, to seat a garment.
8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as, to seat a country. [Not used much.]
SEAT, v.i. To rest; to lie down. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
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: seat, 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, seat, 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 location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based; "the brain is said to be the seat of reason"
7: the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body; "he was elected to a seat in the Senate"
8: a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
9: the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through" v
1: show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" [syn: seat, sit, sit down]
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, seat]
4: put a seat on a chair
5: provide with seats; "seat a concert hall"
6: place or attach firmly in or on a base; "seat the camera on the tripod"
7: place in or on a seat; "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English sete, from Old Norse sæti; akin to Old English gesete seat, sittan to sit Date: 13th century 1. a. a special chair of one in eminence; also the status represented by it b. a chair, stool, or bench intended to be sat in or on c. the particular part of something on which one rests in sitting <the seat of a chair> <trouser seat> d. buttocks 2. a. a seating accommodation <a seat for the game> <a 200-seat restaurant> b. a right of sitting <lost his seat in Congress> c. membership on an exchange 3. a. a place where something specified is prevalent ; center <a seat of learning> b. a place from which authority is exercised <the county seat> c. a bodily part in which some function or condition is centered <the brain as the seat of the mind> 4. posture in or way of sitting on horseback 5. a. a part at or forming the base of something b. a part (as a socket) or surface on or in which another part or surface rests II. verb Date: 1586 transitive verb 1. a. to install in a seat of dignity or office b. (1) to cause to sit or assist in finding a seat (2) to provide seats for <a theater seating 1000 persons> c. to put in a sitting position 2. to repair the seat of or provide a new seat for 3. to fit to or with a seat <seat a valve> intransitive verb 1. archaic to take one's seat or place 2. to fit correctly on a seat

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a thing made or used for sitting on; a chair, stool, saddle, etc. 2 the buttocks. 3 the part of the trousers etc. covering the buttocks. 4 the part of a chair etc. on which the sitter's weight directly rests. 5 a place for one person in a theatre, vehicle, etc. 6 the occupation of a seat. 7 esp. Brit. a the right to occupy a seat, esp. as a Member of the House of Commons. b a member's constituency. 8 the part of a machine that supports or guides another part. 9 a site or location of something specified (a seat of learning; the seat of the emotions). 10 a country mansion, esp. with large grounds. 11 the manner of sitting on a horse etc. --v.tr. 1 cause to sit. 2 a provide sitting accommodation for (the cinema seats 500). b provide with seats. 3 (as seated adj.) sitting. 4 put or fit in position. Phrases and idioms: be seated sit down. by the seat of one's pants colloq. by instinct rather than logic or knowledge. seat-belt a belt securing a person in the seat of a car or aircraft. take a (or one's) seat sit down. Derivatives: seatless adj. Etymology: ME f. ON sæti (= OE gesete f. Gmc)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Seat Seat, n. [OE. sete, Icel. s[ae]ti; akin to Sw. s["a]te, Dan. s[ae]de, MHG. s[=a]ze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. [root]154. See Sit, and cf. Settle, n.] 1. 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. And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. --Matt. xxi. 12. 2. 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. Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. --Rev. ii. 13. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. --Bacon. A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. --Macaulay. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. --G. Eliot. 6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat. Seat worm (Zo["o]l.), the pinworm.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Seat Seat, v. i. To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] --Spenser.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Seat Seat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. --Arbuthnot. 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. --Shak. They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W. Raleigh. 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. --Milton. 5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] --W. Stith. 6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(seats, seating, seated) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A seat is an object that you can sit on, for example a chair. Stephen returned to his seat... Ann could remember sitting in the back seat of their car. N-COUNT 2. The seat of a chair is the part that you sit on. The stool had a torn, red plastic seat. N-COUNT 3. If you seat yourself somewhere, you sit down. (WRITTEN) He waved towards a chair, and seated himself at the desk. ...a portrait of one of his favourite models seated on an elegant sofa. VERB: V pron-refl, V-ed 4. A building or vehicle that seats a particular number of people has enough seats for that number. The Theatre seats 570. VERB: V amount 5. The seat of a piece of clothing is the part that covers your bottom. Then he got up and brushed off the seat of his jeans. N-SING: usu the N of n 6. When someone is elected to a parliament, congress, or senate, you can say that they, or their party, have won a seat. Independent candidates won the majority of seats on the local council. ...a Maryland Republican who lost his seat. N-COUNT 7. If someone has a seat on the board of a company or on a committee, they are a member of it. He has been unsuccessful in his attempt to win a seat on the board of the company. N-COUNT 8. The seat of an organization, a wealthy family, or an activity is its base. Gunfire broke out early this morning around the seat of government in Lagos. N-COUNT: with supp 9. see also deep-seated, hot seat 10. If you take a back seat, you allow other people to have all the power and to make all the decisions. You need to take a back seat and think about both past and future... PHRASE: V inflects 11. If you take a seat, you sit down. (FORMAL) 'Take a seat,' he said in a bored tone... Rachel smiled at him as they took their seats on opposite sides of the table. PHRASE: V and N inflect 12. in the driving seat: see driving seat by the seat of your pants: see pants

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

set: This word is used to translate the Hebrew words (moshabh, shebheth, kicce', and tekhunah), once (Job 23:3). It translates the Greek word (kathedra) (Mt 21:12; 23:2; Mr 11:15), and "chief seat" translates the compound word (protokathedria) (Mt 23:6; Mr 12:39; Lu 20:46). In the King James Version it translates (thronos) (Lu 1:52; Re 2:13; 4:4; 11:16; 13:2; 16:10), which the Revised Version (British and American) renders "throne." It denotes a place or thing upon which one sits, as a chair, or stool (1Sa 20:18; Jud 3:20). It is used also of the exalted position occupied by men of marked rank or influence, either in good or evil (Mt 23:2; Ps 1:1).

Jesse L. Cotton

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Place, station, site, situation. 2. Abode, dwelling, residence, mansion, house. 3. Bottom, fundament. II. v. a. 1. Place, station, locate, establish, fix, set, settle, situate. 2. Cause to sit. 3. Fix, set firm.

Moby Thesaurus

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