seat

En français : asseoir, avoir une capacité de, fixer

1. To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm. (transitive) · Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
2. To provide with a place to sit. (transitive) · This classroom seats two hundred students.· The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.
3. To request or direct one or more persons to sit. (transitive) · Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
4. 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) · 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.
5. To assign the seats of. (transitive)
6. To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. (transitive) · This valve isn't seating properly.
7. To settle; to plant with inhabitants. · to seat a country
8. To put a seat or bottom in. (transitive) · to seat a chair

He/she/it seats · Prétérit seated · Participe passé seated · Forme en -ing seating