noun
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Something to be sat upon.
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A location or site.
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The starting point of a fire.
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Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
verb
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To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
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Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
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To provide with places to sit.
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The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.
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To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
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Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
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(legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
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Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.
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To assign the seats of.
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to seat a church
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To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
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To rest; to lie down.
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To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
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to seat a country
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To put a seat or bottom in.
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to seat a chair
Examples of seat in a Sentence
The princess, picking up her dress, was taking her seat in the dark carriage, her husband was adjusting his saber; Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way.
He took a seat at the table.
Put this on the seat and this to the right.
The seat of honor was given to Sasha.
Then up from his seat rose Abraham Davenport.
Jake asked from his seat nearby.
Awkwardly jammed in the back seat, she sneaked a look at the occupants in the front of the car and withdrew her phone.
She patted the seat.
She shifted in the seat and peered into the night.
Dean offered him a seat but he declined.
With everything ready, they sat on the window seat and watched for Alex.
Then let's have a seat and watch the puppy dog parade.
She plopped down on the sofa and patted the seat next to her invitingly.
Nishani rose as he slid into the seat before the console.
Alex, have a seat there beside Carmen.
His voice was husky as he lifted her into his arms and carried her to the window seat.
Damian smiled wide and opened the door, sliding into the passenger seat.
From what little she knew about etiquette, she was occupying the seat of the lady of the house.
He had leaned back in his seat, his face a frozen mask.
She shot out of her seat and to the door, wrenching it open.
He patted the seat beside him on the couch facing Dustin and Jule.
He threw himself down in the seat across from her.
She buried her face in her hands, sobbed and shrank down in her seat.
Dean remained standing as Martha took a seat on the edge of the bed.
He turned and looked down at Martha, who sank even lower into her seat.
The Buen was nearly full, but as the season crept toward the Fourth of July and the heart of summer, finding a dinner seat anywhere in Ouray would often require patience.
Dean took a seat and joined her, part politeness, part to guard the remaining slice.
That, and the little matter of a cookie in the oven of love, which seemed to be taking a back seat in her ire.
They all squeezed into the front seat—the back seat was piled high with photographic equipment and camping gear.
He leaned over the seat and began rummaging through his backseat accumulation as the vehicle began to slide backwards.
Westlake twisted around the seat once more and after a struggle pulled out an old step pump.
Cynthia leaned back against the seat and closed her eyes while Brandon Westlake acted as if he were taking a Sunday afternoon ride in the park.
Once again he reached behind his seat, this time pulling out a child's red polka-dot umbrella, no doubt another garage sale bargain.
The election continued to take a back seat to everything else happening.
Fred explained the beads—she'd gone to Mardi Gras—as he unceremoniously pushed Dean into the rear seat of the open vehicle.
A woman's pale blue flowered sweater was draped over the passenger seat.
The attorney quickly recovered and half slid, half ran down the slope next to his Jeep where they were standing, covering his shiny black shoes with dust in the process and nearly falling on the seat of his creased shorts.
I wonder if that shot, or whatever it was, came from the owner of that blue sweater on his Jeep seat?
Dean thought about the pictures, especially the one of Dickinson Faust standing next to his Jeep, with the woman's sweater hanging over the seat.
Skidding, half on his feet, half on his seat, he had negotiated a hundred yards further when a glowing flash brightened the sky to the north.
The business of Martha's bones took a back seat to her present whereabouts and the touchy problem of Mr. Fitzgerald.
She was standing by the door but returned to her seat.
Lydia slammed on the breaks, flinging Dean against his seat belt.
Later that evening, Carmen was reading a book to Destiny and Jonathan was sprawled out on the window seat, reading a book about horses.
She pushed back away from him into the seat as much as possible.
She shut the door and waved at Carmen and Alex before getting into the driver's seat.
She crawled up on the window seat and curled into a ball.
Sometime in the night Alex came and lifted her off the window seat.
That night she slept on the window seat, and he didn't come get her.
She lowered herself into the seat, glancing up at his face.