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Seats

noun

1.

An area that includes places where several people can sit. Synonyms: seating, seating area, seating room.

Seat

noun

1.

A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane). Synonym: place. "He sat in someone else's place"

2.

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

3.

Furniture that is designed for sitting on.

4.

Any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit).

5.

A center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised).

6.

The location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based.

7.

The legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body.

8.

A part of a machine that supports or guides another part.

9.

The cloth covering for the buttocks.

verb

(past & past part. seated; pres. part. seating)

1.

Show to a seat; assign a seat for. Synonyms: sit, sit down.

2.

Be able to seat.

3.

Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position. Synonyms: induct, invest.

4.

Put a seat on a chair.

5.

Provide with seats.

6.

Place or attach firmly in or on a base.

7.

Place in or on a seat.

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"Seats" Quotes from Famous Books

... warm and sunny, full of color and gladness. It has the same harmonious perfection, but it is more formal. Its sunken garden is bordered with a conventional balustrade and grass slopes, with marble seats by the paths. There is no fountain, only a long pool in the sunken area, and a separate raised basin at the inner end with gently splashing jets, giving out a cool and peaceful sound. Fat decorated urns, instead of ...

— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... smoking-room he did not hang back at all. Directly we had taken our usual seats he leaned sideways over the arm of his chair and looked straight ...

— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad

... the right and seats herself in the furthest forward corner of the sofa. BORKMAN stands beside the table with his hands behind his back looking at her. A ...

— John Gabriel Borkman • Henrik Ibsen

... the elements, when suddenly they were all electrified by a tremendous clap of thunder. A lumbering crash followed instantaneously that made the building shake to its foundation. All started from their seats, imagining it the shock of an earthquake, or that old father red-cap was coming among them in all his terrors. They listened for a moment, but only heard the rain pelting against the windows, and the wind howling among the trees. The ...

— Tales of a Traveller • Washington Irving

... Irish melodies. "Rich and rare were the gems she wore," is the particular melody to which I find myself devoted. I sing it to myself in the most charming manner and with the greatest expression. Now and then I raise my head (I am sitting on the hardest of wet seats, in the most uncomfortable of wet attitudes, but I don't mind it) and notice that I am a whirling shuttle-cock between a fiery battledore of a lighthouse on the French coast and a fiery battledore of a lighthouse on the English coast; but I don't notice it ...

— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie

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