Word Finder - seated

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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

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Sitting

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Of a woman's skirt, stretched out and baggy over the wearer's buttocks from much sitting while wearing the skirt

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Fixed; confirmed

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Located; situated

The visitors were seated at supper.

The seated Madonna was a more popular statue than the standing Madonna.

Andre was seated, as if he'd never moved.

Joseph Dawkins was there, seated at Fred's computer.

He pushed Katie's chair forward and seated himself at the table.

Betsy was seated at the table, forking sausage onto her plate and smothering pancakes in maple syrup.

Dean noticed her frail form near the front, seated alone.

He was seated, his fingers steepled and his gaze penetrating.

The government of the Persian satrap was seated in Memphis.

The seated president sat on the front platform at the graduation ceremony.

They were seated two tables away from Dean and appeared to be cele­brating something unusual in an otherwise Spartan life.

Alex asked Felipa as soon as they were seated.

Giddon and his daughter were already seated.

She was intruding, but it soon became obvious that Sarah wasn't going to sit down until everyone else was seated.

A waitress wearing a lace cap denoting her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage seated him at a small corner table by the window.

On an impulse, he turned and looked at the family seated near his table still enjoying their meal.

They were seated on the type of furniture you're afraid will break, amid a thousand little fig­urines of dancing girls that must have presented a monumental dusting job.

As soon as they were seated, Cynthia perused the menu, bit her lip and ordered manhattans for both of them.

Fred O'Connor was seated on the toilet, a towel over his head with his pants and shorts pulled down to his ankles.

Randy and Cynthia Byrne were in the front row seated next to a white-haired lady Dean assumed was Cynthia's mother.

Andy Sackler and Dean responded to a call crosstown at Ralph's Barber Shop, where they found a crowd milling around the sidewalk and a half dozen customers seated inside.

Cynthia was there, seated alone in a cramped corner, looking beautiful in something summery, short and yellow, unsmiling but nodding in acknowledgment of his greeting.

David and Cynthia Dean, now husband and wife, and owners of Bird Song, a bed and breakfast in Ouray, Colorado, were seated in the Tundra Room of the recently restored Beaumont Hotel.

At the restaurant, he led her to a secluded booth and waited until she was seated.

After he was seated again, she filled her plate and they both ate in silence for a while.

She pushed the thoughts of Darian from her head, instead focusing on seeing herself seated in his throne.

She recognized the huge orange cat seated on the chair across from her.

Darian remained seated, watching her with intensity that made her feel edgy.

He nodded as if expecting the response and seated himself at a small table near the fire.

The only man seated before her wore chains of gold and carried a sword with a ruby in its hilt.

The seated king eyed Taran as Memon approached Rissa.

Memon did not spare him a glance but continued his conversation with the seated king.

Seated before the two of them, he saw how clearly the two were no way like each other.

He seated himself on a table across the room from the imprisoned man.

Memon seated himself at a table and began to eat.

When they were all seated and attentive, she began with the orientation she had been memorizing for the last two weeks.

When he was seated, he turned to an apprehensive Alondra and put a hand over hers.

She started to rise and he motioned her to remain seated.

Her cousin was dressed and pale, seated on the edge of her bed.

When he emerged from his hallway, the Guardian he expected was seated in his living room.

He Traveled to a quiet playground, eyes settling on the woman seated on a bench.

The washboard abs were flat, even when he was seated.

Even seated, he was drawing a crowd.

She scanned over the comfortable furniture and past the living room to a large kitchen and dining area before her gaze returned to the two forms seated on the balcony.

Theocritus (Idyll 17) hails Ptolemy Philadelphus as a demigod, and speaks of his father as seated among the gods along with Alexander.

It used to be customary among Presbyterians to stand during public prayer, and to remain seated during the acts of praise, but this peculiarity is no longer maintained.

Bethlen no sooner felt firmly seated on his throne than he seized the opportunity presented to him by the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War to take up arms in defence of the liberties and the constitution of the extra-Transylvanian Hungarian provinces, with the view of more effectually assuring his own position.

The god was seated on a throne, every part of which was used as a ground for sculptural decoration.

Once seated in the duchy of Milan, he displayed rare qualities as a ruler; for he not only entered into the spirit of the age, which required humanity and culture from a despot, but he also knew how to curb his desire for territory.

The requirements of the several protoplasts must be met by supplies from without, and, as many of them are deep seated, varieties of need arise, so that various members of the colony are set apart for special duties, masses of them being devoted to the discharge of one function, others to that of another, and so on.