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Seating definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SE'ATING, ppr. Placing on a seat; setting; settling; furnishing with a seat; having its seats assigned to individuals, as a church.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an area that includes places where several people can sit; "there is seating for 40 students in this classroom" [syn: seating, seats, seating room, seating area]
2: the service of ushering people to their seats

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1761 1. a. material for covering or upholstering seats b. a seat on or in which something rests <a valve seating> 2. the act of providing with seats

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 seats collectively. 2 sitting accommodation.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Seating Seat"ing, n. 1. The act of providong 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.

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

1. You can refer to the seats in a place as the seating. The stadium has been fitted with seating for over eighty thousand spectators. 2. The seating at a public place or a formal occasion is the arrangement of where people will sit. She checked the seating arrangements before the guests filed into the dining-room. N-UNCOUNT: oft N n