seat

noun

• 1a thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool.
• the roughly horizontal part of a chair, on which one’s weight rests directly.
• a sitting place for a passenger in a vehicle or for a member of an audience:we have a fairly small theater with about 1,300 seats
• a place in an elected legislative or other body:he lost his seat in the 1998 election
• a site or location of something specified:Washington, the seat of the federal government
• short for country seat.
• short for county seat.
• a part of a machine that supports or guides another part.

• 2a person’s buttocks.
• the part of a garment that covers the buttocks.
• a manner of sitting on a horse:he’s got the worst seat on a horse of anyone I’ve ever seen

verb

• arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere:he seated her next to her husband
• (seat oneself or be seated) sit down:she invited them to be seated (as adjective seated)a dummy in a seated position
• (of a place such as a theater or restaurant) have seats for (a specified number of people):a large tent that seats 100 to 150 people
• fit in position:upper boulders were simply seated in the interstices below