Seat

seat
    n 1: 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" [syn: {seat}, {place}]
    2: 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?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates},
       {arse}, {butt}, {backside}, {bum}, {buns}, {can},
       {fundament}, {hindquarters}, {hind end}, {keister},
       {posterior}, {prat}, {rear}, {rear end}, {rump}, {stern},
       {seat}, {tail}, {tail end}, {tooshie}, {tush}, {bottom},
       {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}, {ass}]
    3: furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not
       enough seats for all the guests"
    4: 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"
    5: a center of authority (as a city from which authority is
       exercised)
    6: the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is
       based; "the brain is said to be the seat of reason"
    7: the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or
       similar body; "he was elected to a seat in the Senate"
    8: a part of a machine that supports or guides another part
    9: the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants
       was worn through"
    v 1: show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next
         to Mrs. Smith" [syn: {seat}, {sit}, {sit down}]
    2: be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000"
    3: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position;
       "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
       [syn: {induct}, {invest}, {seat}]
    4: put a seat on a chair
    5: provide with seats; "seat a concert hall"
    6: place or attach firmly in or on a base; "seat the camera on
       the tripod"
    7: place in or on a seat; "the mother seated the toddler on the
       high chair"
    

Seat \Seat\ (s[=e]t), n. [OE. sete, Icel. saeti; akin to Sw.
   s[aum]te, Dan. saede, MHG. s[=a]ze, AS. set, setl, and E.
   sit. [root]154. See {Sit}, and cf. {Settle}, n.]
   1. The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything
      made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool,
      saddle, or the like.
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            And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money
            changers, and the seats of them that sold doves.
                                                  --Matt. xxi.
                                                  12.
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   2. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or
      thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a
      station; a post; a situation.
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            Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
                                                  --Rev. ii. 13.
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            He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat
            committeth himself to prison.         --Bacon.
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            A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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   3. That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat
      of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
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   4. A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of
      sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in
      the opera house.
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   5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
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            She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted
            with any mount.                       --G. Eliot.
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   6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface
      rests; as, a valve seat.
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   {Seat worm} (Zool.), the pinworm.
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Seat \Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Seating}.]
   1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat
      one's self.
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            The guests were no sooner seated but they entered
            into a warm debate.                   --Arbuthnot.
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   2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like;
      to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
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            Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. --Shak.
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            They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.
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   3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting
      to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
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   4. To fix; to set firm.
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            From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
            They plucked the seated hills.        --Milton.
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   5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a
      country. [Obs.] --W. Stith.
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   6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
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Seat \Seat\, v. i.
   To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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241 Moby Thesaurus words for "seat":
      CP, Eames chair, GHQ, HQ, Hitchcock chair, TV chair, abiding place,
      abode, accommodate, address, angle, armchair, armless chair, arse,
      ass, back seat, backside, banquette, bar stool, barber chair,
      barrel chair, base, base of operations, basement, basis,
      basket chair, batwing chair, beam, bearing wall, bed, bed chair,
      bedding, bedrock, behind, bench, bicycle seat, bottom,
      boudoir chair, bow-back chair, bucket seat, build, build in, bum,
      butt, buttocks, camp chair, campaign chair, can, cantonment,
      capital, capital city, center of authority, central administration,
      central office, central station, chair, club chair,
      club lounge chair, comb-back chair, command post,
      company headquarters, confirm, contain, contour chair, county seat,
      county site, county town, cradle, crash pad, crib, cricket,
      cricket chair, curule chair, dais, deep-dye, define, derriere,
      dining chair, distance, domicile, domus, draft chair, duff,
      dwelling, dwelling place, easy chair, elbowchair, embed, engraft,
      engrave, ensconce, enthrone, entrench, establish, estate, etch,
      fan-back chair, fanny, fauteuil, fender stool, fix, floor,
      flooring, focal point, focus, folding chair, foldstool, fond,
      footing, form, found, foundation, fundament, fundamental,
      garden chair, general headquarters, ground, grounds, groundwork,
      habitation, hardpan, hassock, headquarters, heart, helm,
      high chair, hindquarters, hold, home, horse, hub, impact, implant,
      impress, imprint, incumbency, infix, ingrain, inscribe, install,
      instate, invest, jam, ladder-back chair, lay, lay the foundation,
      lodge, lodging, lodging place, lodgment, main office, mansion,
      membership, milking stool, nerve, nest, ottoman, overstuffed chair,
      pack, pad, park, pavement, perspective, pew, pitch, place,
      place to live, plant, platform rocker, pose, posit, position, post,
      posterior, principle, print, put, put in, put up, radical,
      rear end, residence, riprap, rock bottom, rocker, rocking chair,
      roof, root, rudiment, rump, saddle, seat of government,
      seat of power, seat of state, seating, sedan chair, set, set in,
      set up, settee, settle, shire town, sill, sit, site, sofa,
      solid ground, solid rock, stamp, stand, standing, station, status,
      step stool, stereobate, stereotype, stick, stool, stylobate,
      submit, substratum, substruction, substructure, swear in, swing,
      taboret, tail, terra firma, throne, tush, underbuilding,
      undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction,
      understructure, venue, vest, viewpoint, wedge, woolsack