seat
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
Something to be sat upon.
- 2.
A location or site.
- 3.
The starting point of a fire.
- 4.
Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
- 2.
(transitive)To provide with a place to sit.
This classroom seats two hundred students.
The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.
- 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.
- 4.
(transitive)(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.
You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section.
- 5.
(transitive)To assign the seats of.
to seat a church
- 6.
(transitive)To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
This valve isn't seating properly.
- 7.
(intransitive, obsolete)To rest; to lie down.
- 8.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
to seat a country
- 9.
(transitive)To put a seat or bottom in.
to seat a chair
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ine-pro From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (seat), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (seat), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (to sit); compare set.