English Dictionary

seat

/siːt/

verb

(transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm. / (transitive) To provide with places to sit. / (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.

Please seat yourself at the table.

意味（1）

(transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.

From their foundations, loosening to and fro, / They plucked the seated hills.

意味（2）

(transitive) To provide with places to sit.

This classroom seats two hundred students.

意味（3）

(transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.

Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.

意味（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.

Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.

意味（5）

(transitive) To assign the seats of.

to seat a church

意味（6）

(transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

Thus high […] is King Richard seated.

意味（7）

(obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.

The folds, where sheepe at night doe seat.

意味（8）

To settle; to plant with inhabitants.

to seat a country

意味（9）

(transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.

to seat a chair