seat

IPA: sˈit

Something to be sat upon.
A place in which to sit.
The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
(aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.
The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
(engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
A location or site.
(figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
The location of a governing body.
(certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.
(law, England and Wales) One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.
(historical) Any of several autonomous regions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.
The starting point of a fire.
Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
(US, aviation, firefighting, acronym) Single engine air tanker.
Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo, a Spanish automobile manufacturer.
An automobile from Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo
A surname.

(transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
(transitive) To provide with a place to sit.
(transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
(transitive, 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.
(transitive) To assign the seats of.
(transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
(obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
(transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.

Examples of "seat" in Sentences

Is this seat taken
It was the seat of the chief.
The seat was the seat of the chief.
He took a seat with a hangdog look on the table.
The carriage hangs beneath the seat of the chair.
The carriage is hung beneath the seat of the chair.
The seat cushion is attached to the top of the seat platform.
The following table shows the seat allocation in the City Council.
The force of the chair against the seat of your pants is a g force.
The chair did have a reclining seat, but you have to manually recline the chair.