seat
/siːt/
noun
- A thing designed or used for sitting on, such as a chair, bench, or stool.
- Please take a seat and wait for your name to be called.
- She pulled up a seat at the kitchen table.
- The bus has forty seats for passengers.
- The part of a chair, bicycle, or other object that you sit on.
- He adjusted the bicycle seat to be higher.
- The toilet seat needs to be cleaned.
- The seat of this chair is padded for extra comfort.
- A place where something is based or located.
- The company's seat of operations is in Chicago.
- This university is a seat of learning and research.
- The capital city is the seat of the national government.
- A membership or position in a legislative or official body.
- He held his seat in Parliament for twenty years.
- She won a seat in the Senate after a close election.
- The committee has one vacant seat to fill.
verb
- To cause someone to sit down or to provide a place for someone to sit.
- The usher will seat you near the stage.
- Please seat yourself anywhere you like.
- The restaurant can seat up to one hundred guests.
- To have a specified number of seats or capacity for sitting.
- The new stadium seats fifty thousand people.
- The theater seats only two hundred.
- This van seats seven passengers comfortably.
- To fit or install something into a position where it rests securely.
- Make sure to seat the valve firmly in the hole.
- The mechanic seated the tire onto the rim.
- He seated the new battery in its compartment.