Seat vs. Usher — What's the Difference?

A seat is a place to sit. The term may encompass additional features, such as back, armrest, head restraint but also headquarters in a wider sense.

One who is employed to escort people to their seats, as in a theater, church, or stadium.

A thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool.

One who greets guests at a wedding and escorts them to their seats.

A person's buttocks.

One who serves as official doorkeeper, as in a courtroom or legislative chamber.

A place in an elected legislative or other body

An official whose duty is to make introductions between unacquainted persons or to precede persons of rank in a procession.

A principal site or location

(Archaic) An assistant teacher in a school.

A part of a machine that supports or guides another part

To serve as an usher to; escort.

Arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere

To lead or conduct

Fit in position

To precede and introduce; inaugurate

Something, such as a chair or bench, that may be sat on

To serve as an usher

The part on which one rests in sitting

A person, in a church, cinema etc., who escorts people to their seats.

A place in which one may sit

A male escort at a wedding.

The right to occupy such a place or a ticket indicating this right

A doorkeeper in a courtroom.

The buttocks.

(obsolete) An assistant to a head teacher or schoolteacher; an assistant teacher.

The part of a garment that covers the buttocks.

Any schoolteacher.

A part serving as the base of something else.

To guide people to their seats.

The surface or part on which another part sits or rests.

To accompany or escort (someone).

The place where something is located or based

(figuratively) To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald.

A center of authority; a capital

To lead or guide somewhere.

A place of abode or residence, especially a large house that is part of an estate

An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc.

Membership in an organization, such as a legislative body or stock exchange, that is obtained by appointment, election, or purchase.

An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

The manner of sitting on a horse

To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; - sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.

To place in or on a seat.

Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656)

To cause or assist to sit down

An official doorkeeper as in a courtroom or legislative chamber

To provide with a particular seat

Someone employed to conduct others

To have or provide seats for

Show (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums;

To install in a position of authority or eminence.

To fix firmly in place

To rest on or fit into another part

Something to be sat upon.

A place in which to sit.

The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.

A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.

The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.

The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.

(engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.

A location or site.

(figurative) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

The location of a governing body.

(certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.

A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.

The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.

One of a series of departmental placements given to a trainee solicitor as part of their training contract.

(historical) Any of several autonomous regions in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary.

The starting point of a fire.

Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

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

(transitive) To provide with a place to sit.

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

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.

(transitive) To assign the seats of.

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

To rest; to lie down.

To settle; to plant with inhabitants.

(transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.

To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.

To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.

To fix; to set firm.

To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.

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

To rest; to lie down.

A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane);

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

Furniture that is designed for sitting on;

Any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit);

A center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)

The cloth covering for the buttocks;

Show to a seat; assign a seat for;

Be able to seat;

Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position;

Put a seat on a chair

Provide with seats;