SEATING

seating

(noun) the service of ushering people to their seats

seating, seats, seating room, seating area

(noun) an area that includes places where several people can sit; “there is seating for 40 students in this classroom”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

seating

present participle of seat

Noun

seating (countable and uncountable, plural seatings)

(gerund) The act of one that seats.

(uncountable) The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.

(countable) A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc, to be seated.

Material for making seats.

(obsolete) Haircloth.

(mechanics) Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.

(shipbuilding) That part of the floor which rests on the keel.

Anagrams

• ageinst, easting, eatings, gainest, genista, giantes, ingates, ingesta, signate, tagines, tangies, teasing, tsigane

Source: Wiktionary


Seat"ing, n.

1. The act of providong with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.

SEAT

Seat, n. Etym: [OE. sete, Icel. sæti; akin to Sw. säte, Dan. sæde, MHG. saze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. sq. root154. 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. And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12.

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. Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. Rev. ii. 13. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. Bacon. A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. Macaulay.

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.

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.

5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot.

6. (Mach.)

Definition: A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat. Seat worm (Zoöl.), the pinworm.

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. The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. Arbuthnot.

2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. Shak. They had seated themselves in New Guiana. Sir W. Raleigh.

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.

4. To fix; to set firm. From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills. Milton.

5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] W. Stith.

6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

Seat, v. i.

Definition: To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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