seat

[[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 posture used in sitting on a horse

6) something on which the base of an object rests

7) the base itself

8) a place in which something occurs or is established:

a college as a seat of learning[/ex]

9) gov a place in which administrative power is centered:

Washington is the seat of the U.S. government[/ex]

10) accommodation for sitting, as in a theater

11) gov a right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body:

She was elected to a seat in the Senate[/ex]

12) a right to the privileges of membership in a stock exchange or the like

13) to place on a seat; cause to sit down

14) to guide to a seat

15) to accommodate with seats:

a theater that seats 1200 people[/ex]

16) to put a seat on or into

17) gov to install in a position or office of authority

18) cvb to fit (a valve) with a seat

19) to attach to or place firmly in or on something as a base:

Seat the telescope on the tripod[/ex]

20) cvb to fit properly in a seat

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- by the seat of one's pants

Etymology: 1150–1200; ME sete (n.) < ON sæti, c. OEgesete, OHGgasāzi; akin to sit seat′er, n. seat′less, adj.