What does SEAT mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. seat, placenoun

    a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)

    "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place"

  2. buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, assnoun

    the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

    "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

  3. seatnoun

    furniture that is designed for sitting on

    "there were not enough seats for all the guests"

  4. seatnoun

    any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)

    "he dusted off the seat before sitting down"

  5. seatnoun

    a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)

  6. seatnoun

    the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based

    "the brain is said to be the seat of reason"

  7. seatnoun

    the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body

    "he was elected to a seat in the Senate"

  8. seatnoun

    a part of a machine that supports or guides another part

  9. seatverb

    the cloth covering for the buttocks

    "the seat of his pants was worn through"

  10. seat, sit, sit downverb

    show to a seat; assign a seat for

    "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"

  11. seatverb

    be able to seat

    "The theater seats 2,000"

  12. induct, invest, seatverb

    place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position

    "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"

  13. seatverb

    put a seat on a chair

  14. seatverb

    provide with seats

    "seat a concert hall"

  15. seatverb

    place or attach firmly in or on a base

    "seat the camera on the tripod"

  16. seatverb

    place in or on a seat

    "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"

Wiktionary

  1. seatnoun

    A place in which to sit.

    There are two hundred seats in this classroom.

  2. seatnoun

    The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.

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

  3. seatnoun

    A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.

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

  4. seatnoun

    The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.

  5. seatnoun

    The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.

    The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.

  6. seatnoun

    A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

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

  7. seatnoun

    The location of a governing body.

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

  8. seatnoun

    an electoral district, especially for a national legislature.

  9. seatnoun

    The starting point of a fire.

  10. seatverb

    To put an object into a place where it will rest.

    Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.

  11. seatverb

    To provide places to sit.

  12. Etymology: from sæti, compare set

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Seatnoun

    Etymology: sedes, Latin; sett, old German. Skinner.

    The sons of light
    Hasted, resorting to the summons high,
    And took their seats. John Milton, Paradise Lost.

    The lady of the leaf ordain’d a feast,
    And made the lady of the flow’r her guest;
    When, lo, a bow’r ascended on the plain,
    With sudden seats ordain’d, and large for either train. Dryd.

    With due observance of thy goodly seat,
    Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall supply
    Thy latest words. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida.

    Thus we debase
    The nature of our seats, and make the rabble
    Call our cares fears. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Whatsoever be the manner of the world’s end, most certain it is an end it shall have, and as certain that then we shall appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every man may receive according to that which he hath done in his body, whether it be good or evil. George Hakewill, on Providence.

    It were enough in reason to succour with victuals, and other helps, a vast multitude, compelled by necessity to seek a new seat, or to direct them unto a country able to receive them. Walter Raleigh.

    O earth, how like to heav’n! if not prefer’d
    Most justly, seat worthier of gods, as built
    With second thoughts, reforming what was old! John Milton.

    In Alba he shall fix his royal seat;
    And, born a king, a race of kings beget. Dryden.

    Has Winter caus’d thee, friend, to change thy seat,
    And seek in Sabine air a warm retreat? Dryden.

    The promis’d seat of empire shall again
    Cover the mountain, and command the plain. Matthew Prior.

    The fittest and the easiest to be drawn
    To our society, and to aid the war,
    The rather for their seat, being next borderers
    On Italy. Ben Jonson, Catiline.

    He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Francis Bacon.

    A church by Strand-bridge, and two bishops houses, were pulled down to make a seat for his new building. John Hayward.

    It followeth now that we find out the seat of Eden; for in it was Paradise by God planted. Walter Raleigh.

  2. To Seatverb

    Etymology: from the noun.

    The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. Arbuthnot.

    Thus high was king Richard seated. William Shakespeare, R. III.

    Not Babylon,
    Nor great Alcairo, such magnificence
    Equal’d in all their glories to inshrine
    Belus or Serapis their gods, or seat
    Their kings. John Milton.

    A spirit of envy or opposition makes mankind uneasy to see others of the same species seated above them in a sort of perfection. Alexander Pope.

    Should one family or one thousand hold possession of all the southern undiscovered continent, because they had seated themselves in Nova Guiana. Walter Raleigh.

    By no means build too near a great neighbour, which were, in truth, to be as unfortunately seated on the earth as Mercury is in the heavens; for the most part ever in combustion, or obscurity, under brighter beams than his own. Henry Wotton.

    Why do I yield to that suggestion,
    Whose horrid image doth upfix my hair,
    And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,
    Against the use of nature. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

    From their foundations loosening to and fro,
    They pluck’d the seated hills. John Milton.

Wikipedia

  1. Seat

    A seat is a place to sit. The term may encompass additional features, such as back, armrest, head restraint but also headquarters in a wider sense.

ChatGPT

  1. seat

    A seat is a piece of furniture or space designed to accommodate an individual sitting or objects resting. It typically has a flat or concave surface and may come with a backrest or armrests. In wider context, it can also refer to a person's position or role in an organization or event, or a place of authority or power.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Seatnoun

    the place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like

  2. Seatnoun

    the place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation

  3. Seatnoun

    that part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons

  4. Seatnoun

    a sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house

  5. Seatnoun

    posture, or way of sitting, on horseback

  6. Seatnoun

    a part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat

  7. Seatverb

    to place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self

  8. Seatverb

    to cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle

  9. Seatverb

    to assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church

  10. Seatverb

    to fix; to set firm

  11. Seatverb

    to settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country

  12. Seatverb

    to put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair

  13. Seatverb

    to rest; to lie down

  14. Etymology: [OE. sete, Icel. saeti; akin to Sw. ste, Dan. saede, MHG. sze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. 154. See Sit, and cf. Settle, n.]

Wikidata

  1. SEAT

    SEAT, S.A. is a Spanish automobile manufacturer with its head office in Martorell, Spain. It was founded on May 9, 1950, by the Instituto Nacional de Industria, a state-owned industrial holding company. It is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Volkswagen Group, as a member of the now-defunct Audi Brand Group, together with Audi and Lamborghini, and marketed as a car maker with a youthful sporty profile. Within the Volkswagen Group and under the Audi Brand Group, the SEAT brand itself has been developed as a group with subsidiary companies and 'SEAT, S.A.' as the parent company. The headquarters of SEAT, S.A. are located at SEAT's industrial complex in Martorell near Barcelona, Spain. By 2000 annual production peaked at over 500,000 units; in total up to 2006, over 16 million cars have been produced including more than 6 million from the Martorell plant, with three-quarters of the annual production being exported to over seventy countries worldwide. The name SEAT previously stood for the acronym Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Seat

    sēt, n. that on which one sits: a chair, bench, &c.: the place or room where one sits, as in church, at a theatre, &c.: site: a place where anything is settled or established: post of authority: station: abode: a mansion: that part of the body or of a garment on which one sits: posture or situation on horseback: a right to sit: membership: sitting-room: a sitting: a sitting of eggs.—v.t. to place on a seat: to cause to sit down: to place in any situation, site, &c.: to establish: to fix: to assign a seat to: to furnish with seats: to fit accurately: to repair by making a seat new.—v.i. to lie down.—ns. Seat′-back, a loose ornamental covering for the back of a sofa or chair; Seat′-earth, in coal-mining, the bed of clay by which many coal-seams are underlain.—p.adj. Seat′ed, fixed, confirmed, located.—ns. Seat′-fas′tener, in a wagon, the screw-clamp for securing the seat to the body; Seat′ing, the act of furnishing with seats: haircloth: in shipbuilding, that part of the floor which rests on the keel; Seat′-lock, the lock of a reversible seat in railroad cars; Seat′-rail, a cross-piece between the legs, below the seat, of a chair, &c.; Seat′-worm, a pin-worm.—Seat of the soul, the sensorium.—Take a seat, to sit down. [A.S. sǽt, an ambush—sittan, to seat; or more prob. Ice. sæti, a seat—sat, pa.t. of sitja, to sit.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. seat

    A term often applied to the peculiar summit of a mountain, as the Queen of Spain's Seat near Gibraltar, the Bibi of Mahratta's Seat near Bombay, Arthur's Seat at Edinburgh, &c.

Editors Contribution

  1. seat

    A type of furniture and product.

    The seat on the bus was created in beautiful aqua and silver colors.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 7, 2020  


  2. seatnoun

    South levitation without expressing a location or arrival in a particular place or position. 1.) A thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool. 2.) A person's buttocks. Arrange for someone to sit somewhere.

    My seat at the table is in my heart.

    Etymology: Throne


    Submitted by Tony_Elyon on March 9, 2024  

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  1. SEAT

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SEAT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Seat is ranked #33990 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Seat surname appeared 669 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Seat.

    91.1% or 610 total occurrences were White.
    2.3% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.2% or 15 total occurrences were Black.
    1.6% or 11 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.4% or 10 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    1% or 7 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SEAT' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1681

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SEAT' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1821

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SEAT' in Nouns Frequency: #406

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'SEAT' in Verbs Frequency: #1043

Anagrams for SEAT »

  1. AEST

  2. east

  3. East

  4. eats

  5. ESTA

  6. etas

  7. sate

  8. saté

  9. seta

  10. tase

  11. teas

  12. ates

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of SEAT in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of SEAT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of SEAT in a Sentence

  1. Alek Skarlatos:

    I hope that people are sick of the inflation. I think they're sick of being the poorest congressional district in the state. I think they're sick of the rising crime rate, rising groceries and everything, it just seems like this country is really at a turning point. And if we can't win in an open seat in this kind of a year in Oregon, it just seems like we're hopeless. So I certainly hope that we can take back the House and win a lot of these competitive seats in a year like this.

  2. Bennie Thompson:

    I would say that we'll do this work as long as it takes to complete it. Flexibility is important, if we run into significant resistance, then obviously it will take longer, i would love to say we would be able to finish it within a reasonable period of time. But for those of us who had a ringside seat on January 6, it was very damaging to the worldview of who we are as Americans. And we have to fix that worldview.

  3. Mike Forsythe:

    It's an incredible amount of wealth that goes to Beijing every March, you don't see as many farmers, you know ? You don't see as many ordinary people there. Why do these billionaires, fabulously wealthy billionaires, have a seat at the table ?

  4. Brett Kavanaugh:

    Sources said at the time they believed opposition from the left was fueled by concerns that Brett Kavanaugh could one day have a seat on Supreme Court. I consider myself a Republican, I am a supporter of President President Bush.

  5. Rudolf Erasmus:

    At first, I thought it was my water bottle leaking, as I then turned to my left and I looked down, I saw the head of the snake receding back underneath my seat.

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