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What does seat mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word seat? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Something to be sat upon.
    1. A place in which to sit.
    2. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
    3. A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
    4. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
    5. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
    6. (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
  2. A location or site.
    1. (figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
    2. The location of a governing body.
    3. (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
    4. The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated or resides; a site.
  3. The starting point of a fire.
  4. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
  2. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
  3. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
  4. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.
  5. (transitive) To assign the seats of.
  6. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
  7. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.
  8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
  9. To put a seat or bottom in.
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