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seat English

Meaning seat meaning

What does seat mean?
Definitions in simple English

seat Noun

— A seat is something to sit on. Pull up a seat and sit down. — The seat is a part of the clothes covering the buttocks. The seat of your pants is muddy. — Seat is where something is, at the centre of things. The town was the county seat, where the county council met. Canberra is the seat of the Australian Government.

seat Verb

— To seat is to help someone sit down. Follow me. I will seat you near the stage. I will pull out your chair to seat you.

seat

— noun (= place) 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 — verb show to a seat; assign a seat for The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith — noun (= butt, fanny) 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? — noun 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 — noun furniture that is designed for sitting on there were not enough seats for all the guests — verb be able to seat The theater seats 2,000 — verb (= induct) place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy — noun a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) — noun the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based the brain is said to be the seat of reason — noun the cloth covering for the buttocks the seat of his pants was worn through — noun a part of a machine that supports or guides another part — noun the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body he was elected to a seat in the Senate — verb put a seat on a chair — verb provide with seats seat a concert hall — verb place in or on a seat the mother seated the toddler on the high chair — verb place or attach firmly in or on a base seat the camera on the tripod

Synonyms seat synonyms

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seat English » English

chair place stool bench position buttocks sit bottom set put location sit down posterior nates install sitting site residence rear fundament bum behind abode tush tooshie tail end tail stern settle rump rear end prat post keister hindquarters hind end fanny derriere can butt buns bed backside ass arse throne situation saddle room mat

Topics seat topics

What do people use seat to talk about?
Physical actions Posture

Sit
Daily life Household equipment Furniture

Chair
Daily life Clothing

Parts of clothing
Person Life Stage of life Baby

Care for a baby
Language and thought Want Influence

Control
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Excited
Social behavior

Government

Conjugation seat conjugation

How do you conjugate seat?

seat · verb

Examples seat examples

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Simple sentences

Please have a seat.
Sandra offered me her seat on the train.
This sofa can seat three people easily.
If you piss on the toilet seat, wipe it off!
She found him a seat.
Tom adjusted the seat, put in the key, and then drove away.
Mary doesn't like it when Tom leaves the toilet seat up.
It irritates Mary when Tom leaves the toilet seat up.
I went back to my seat.
The only free seat left was the one next to Tom.
The only free seat left was the one next to Mary.
I saved a seat for Tom.
As the plane was approaching turbulence, the pilot asked the passengers aboard the plane to fasten their seat belts.
Go back to your seat.
The paint on the seat on which you are sitting is still wet.
Is there a vacant seat?
I asked for a seat in the no-smoking section.
I asked for a seat in the non-smoking section.
Stick the bag down under the seat.
We went to the theater early, so we could be sure that everyone could get a seat.
Luckily, he found a good seat.
Drivers should wear seat belts.
The driver advised us to fasten our seat belts.
Please make certain your seat belt is fastened.
I asked for a seat in the smoking section.
His seat in the plane was on the aisle.
Fasten your seat belt when you drive.
We can seat you soon.
There wasn't a single vacant seat in the hall.

Movie subtitles

Can I have a seat?
Seat the lady, hmm? Ah, I love jazz.
Take a seat, thanks, Warren.
I like to get a good seat.
Take a seat, I'll be with you in a minute.
Or is it more like a seat that they sit on?
Take a seat, Nurse Crane, I'll see if we can get you a cup of tea.
Take a seat, boys.
Well, have a seat.
Everybody takes his seat.
Take a seat and eat!
You have a seat in the parliament.
Of course. And if you want to take your seat at the Parliament, before you must officially receive your title.
Go up there and knock on the door and see if you can get me a seat. Yes, sir.
Have a seat, Mother.
Best seat in the house, for the guest of honor.
Uh, seat 20, in the aisle.
Now, then, have a seat.
Fine, take a seat.
He has the choice of seat then.
You have the choice of seat.
I'd like to see you crawl out of a rumble seat.
I'll take a seat too.
Yes, they're under the back seat.
Find yourself a seat down there.
I got a seat, but I have no place to put it.
Won't you have my seat?
If you'll be good enough to move those newspapers, I'll have a seat.
Seat the lady, hmm?
In the meantime have a seat on the banister.
Go up there and knock on the door and see if you can get me a seat.
You may return to your seat.
And if I speak to him suddenly. He falls off his seat.
You will return to your seat.
One seat, please.
If you'll move those newspapers, I'll have a seat.

News and current affairs

Britain does not need a seat at the table when decisions on the Euro are taken.
Germany and Japan say that they want a permanent seat on the UN Security Council, but neither has yet followed through on its own pledges to help the world's poorest people.
But when New Jersey Governor John Corzine was involved in a serious road accident last month, it became known that he violated his own state's law by not wearing his seat belt.
Our work, however, strongly supports Fukuyama's theory that cultures and values take a back seat to the level of a country's modernity in determining its social conditions.
There is no reason Japan should not hold a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council.
Workers, for instance, who have much to lose if the central bank pursues an excessively tight policy, do not have a seat at the table.
The Scottish National Party's crushing victory left Labour with only one seat in the country.
The Nobel laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was not only released from house arrest, but is now campaigning hard for a parliamentary seat in April's by-elections.
Even debate about reforming the global financial architecture was stilted: only finance ministers and central bankers, it seems, are allowed a seat at the IMF table.
Yet, when one considers other successful efforts to improve public health over the last five decades - for example, smoking bans, seat-belt laws, and speed limits - one finds that legislation typically supplemented education.
By presenting voters with more candidates than positions, Deng Liqun, a member of the ultra-left Old Guard, was denied a seat.
During the past year, for the first time in its history, the US was not a member of the Commission (though it will be regaining its seat in 2003).
Conversely, the EPP performed relatively better in small countries, where the vote cost per seat is much lower.
Many of the new members will be small countries who will introduce the euro someday and will want to have a seat on the Executive Board.
If Suu Kyi is permitted to campaign free of restraint, for both her own seat and to boost the electoral chances of her NLD colleagues, it will be clear that Thein Sein and his government are truly determined to bring their country in from the cold.
Great Britain and France will resist being replaced by a single EU seat, while making Germany a permanent member would only exacerbate the problem of Europe's relative over-representation.
MADRID - The United States is gearing up for that most intoxicating (and exhausting) of political events: an open-seat race for the presidency.
Ever since the US realized that it had chosen the wrong region to be regional with, it has been trying to win a seat at the Asian table.
Germany has long sought a seat on the United Nations Security Council, making common cause with Japan, Brazil, and India.
Under this scenario, Germany would play a role in global peace and security through the European seat, as well as serving as a periodic rotating member.
While Russia retains the world's largest (if somewhat aging) arsenal of nuclear weapons, as well as a permanent seat (and thus veto power) on the UN Security Council, it is more sick than BRIC.
In Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard law professor and tireless warrior for reforms to protect ordinary citizens from banks' abusive practices, won a seat in the Senate.
Thai diplomats fear another such defeat in their country's current attempt to win a seat on the UN Security Council.
Nigeria to South Africa (and vice-versa); and several countries, including China, Indonesia, and South Korea, might resist creating a permanent seat for Japan.
Brazil wants to prove that it deserves a permanent seat on the Security Council.
We won the election, but I lost my own race for a parliamentary seat and was sent off to Hong Kong as the colony's last British governor.

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