seat
/siːt/ verb C1- To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm. · Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
- To provide with a place to sit. · This classroom seats two hundred students.· The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.
- To request or direct one or more persons to sit. · Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
- 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. · Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.· You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section.
- To assign the seats of.
- To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. · This valve isn't seating properly.
- To settle; to plant with inhabitants. · to seat a country
- To put a seat or bottom in. · to seat a chair
He/she/it seats · Past seated · Past participle seated · -ing form seating
Verb forms
- Base form
- seat
- He/she/it
- seats
- Past
- seated
- Past participle
- seated
- -ing form
- seating
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death.
He was pale, but calm and collected, and saluting his judge with easy politeness, looked round for a seat, as if he had been in M.
At this moment Danglars, who had been incessantly observing every change in Fernand’s look and manner, saw him stagger and fall back, with an almost convulsive spasm, against a seat placed near one of the open windows.
Morrel was seated at his right hand, Danglars at his left; while, at a sign from Edmond, the rest of the company ranged themselves as they found it most agreeable.
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