Seat

  • 31seat — [[t]si͟ːt[/t]] ♦♦ seats, seating, seated 1) N COUNT A seat is an object that you can sit on, for example a chair. Stephen returned to his seat... Ann could remember sitting in the back seat of their car. 2) N COUNT The seat of a chair is the part …

    English dictionary

  • 32seat — n. place to sit 1) to take one s seat 2) to assign seats 3) to book (esp. BE), reserve a seat 4) to give up, relinquish; keep one s seat 5) a box; bucket; car; front row; jump; ringside seat 6) a rumble seat (AE; BE has dicky) 7) the driver s… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 33seat — I. noun Etymology: Middle English sete, from Old Norse sæti; akin to Old English gesete seat, sittan to sit Date: 13th century 1. a. a special chair of one in eminence; also the status represented by it b. a chair, stool, or bench intended to be… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 34seat — Position of membership on a securities or commodity exchange, bought and sold at market prices. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * seat seat [siːt] noun [countable] 1. a position as a member of a government or a group that makes official… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 35seat*/*/*/ — [siːt] noun [C] I 1) something that you can sit on Some of the vans have leather seats.[/ex] The seat next to me was empty.[/ex] He was in the back seat of the car when the accident happened.[/ex] She put her bag on the passenger seat (= the seat …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 36seat — [[t]sit[/t]] n. 1) something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair or bench 2) the part of something on which one sits: a chair seat[/ex] 3) the buttocks 4) the part of the garment covering the buttocks 5) a manner of or… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 37seat — seater, n. seatless, adj. /seet/, n. 1. something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits. 2. the part of a chair, sofa, or the like, on which one sits. 3. the part of the… …

    Universalium

  • 38seat — {{11}}seat (n.1) thing to sit on, act of sitting, c.1200, from O.N. sæti seat, position, from P.Gmc. *sæt (Cf. O.H.G. saze, M.Du. gesaete seat, O.H.G. gisazi, Ger. Gesäß buttocks ), from PIE root *sed to sit (see S …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 39Seat —    The motor vehicle company Seat (Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo) was set up by the government in 1949 under the umbrella of the National Industrial Institute (INI) with the participation of Fiat (see also motor manufacture). It… …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • 40seat — country·seat; dis·seat; en·seat; key·seat·er; re·seat; seat; seat·ed; seat·er; seat·less; seat·mate; un·seat; …

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