seating
/ˈsiːtɪŋ/ noun B1- The act of one that seats. · The seating of passengers will begin soon.
- The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit. · There is plenty of comfortable seating.· The airline boasts several classes of seating.
- A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated. · The first seating begins at 5 o'clock.· an exclusive restaurant offering just ten spaces per seating
- Material for making seats. · cane seating
- Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.
- That part of the floor which rests on the keel.
Plural seatings
From the library
“I have no objection,” Lestrade answered, seating himself.
Noirtier, seating himself, “I might say the same thing to you, when you announce to me your wedding for the 28th of February, and on the 3rd of March you turn up here in Paris.”
“Let me see,” said Holmes, seating himself on Staunton’s bed.
“No, my dear fellow,” returned the young man, seating himself on the divan; “reassure yourself; we are tottering always, but we never fall, and I begin to believe that we shall pass into a state of immobility, and then the affairs of the Peninsula will completely consolidate us.”
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