Meaning of seat | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Something to be sat upon. A place in which to sit
3. Acronym of single-engine air tanker.
   US, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
4. Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo, a Spanish automobile manufacturer.
5. An automobile from Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo
6. Something to be sat upon.
7. A place in which to sit
8. A place in which to sit.
9. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting
10. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
11. A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting
12. A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
13. An ejection seat
14. An ejection seat.
    slang
15. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
16. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
17. A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
18. A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
    figuratively
19. A location or site.
    figuratively
20. The location of a governing body.
21. An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
22. A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
23. The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.
24. One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.
    England, Wales
25. Any of several autonomous regions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
    historical
26. The starting point of a fire.
27. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

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Examples

“Several pressmen have nearly lost their lives, to say nothing of the seats of their trousers, from these creatures.”

“I love these new biker pants I bought! There's padding in the seat to protect my rear end.”

“There are two hundred seats in this classroom.”

“The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.”

“[…] Grand Union proposes making a seat part of the price of a ticket, with 50% refunds for those travelling for longer than 30 minutes unable to obtain a seat.”

“He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat, which always annoyed his mother.”

“the seat of a saddle”

“She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.”

“Hey, fighter boy, our radar's putting out enough energy to launch your seat from this distance!”

“Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".”

“The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.”

“The seat of the valve had become corroded.”

“Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.”

“Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.”

“The K'o-tzu-lo-su Kirghiz chou bordered on the K'o-shih chuan-ch'ü and its seat at A-t'u-shih was only twenty-five kilometers from K'o-shih shih.”

“But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.”

“A man of fortune, who lives in London, may, in plays, operas, routs, assemblies, French cookery, French sauces, and French wines, spend as much yearly, as he could do, were he to live in the most hospitable manner at his seat in the country.”

“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”

“I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.”

“She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.”

“George was a perfect picture on horseback; he had a light, firm seat, and seemed as if he were a part of his horse, and was only happy when away in the saddle for hours together, mustering cattle or tracking a missing horse.”

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