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Seet vs. Seat — What's the Difference?

Seet vs. Seat — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Seet and Seat

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Seet

Sate; sat.

Seat

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.

Seat

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

Seat

A person's buttocks.

Seat

A place in an elected legislative or other body
He lost his seat in the 1997 election
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Seat

A principal site or location
Parliament House was the seat of the Scots Parliament until the Union with England

Seat

A part of a machine that supports or guides another part
If the valve seat is damaged, it can be recut using a special tool

Seat

Arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere
Owen seated his guests in the draughty baronial hall

Seat

Fit in position
Upper boulders were simply seated in the interstices below

Seat

Something, such as a chair or bench, that may be sat on
There are comfortable seats in the waiting room.

Seat

The part on which one rests in sitting
The seat of a chair.
A bicycle seat.

Seat

A place in which one may sit
Found a seat on the floor.

Seat

The right to occupy such a place or a ticket indicating this right
Got seats for the concert.

Seat

The buttocks.

Seat

The part of a garment that covers the buttocks.

Seat

A part serving as the base of something else.

Seat

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

Seat

The place where something is located or based
The heart is the seat of the emotions.

Seat

A center of authority; a capital
The county seat.

Seat

A place of abode or residence, especially a large house that is part of an estate
The squire's country seat.

Seat

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

Seat

The manner of sitting on a horse
A rider with a good seat.

Seat

To place in or on a seat.

Seat

To cause or assist to sit down
The ushers will seat the members of the bride's family.

Seat

To provide with a particular seat
The usher seated me in the back row.

Seat

To have or provide seats for
We can seat 300 in the auditorium.

Seat

To install in a position of authority or eminence.

Seat

To fix firmly in place
Seat an ammunition clip in an automatic rifle.

Seat

To rest on or fit into another part
The O-rings had not seated correctly in their grooves.

Seat

Something to be sat upon.

Seat

A place in which to sit.
There are two hundred seats in this classroom.

Seat

The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat, which always annoyed his mother.
The seat of a saddle

Seat

A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.

Seat

The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".

Seat

The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.

Seat

(engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.
The seat of the valve had become corroded.

Seat

A location or site.

Seat

(figurative) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.

Seat

The location of a governing body.
Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.

Seat

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

Seat

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

Seat

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

Seat

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

Seat

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

Seat

The starting point of a fire.

Seat

Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

Seat

(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.

Seat

(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.

Seat

(transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.

Seat

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.

Seat

(transitive) To assign the seats of.
To seat a church

Seat

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

Seat

To rest; to lie down.

Seat

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

Seat

(transitive) To put a seat or bottom in.
To seat a chair

Seat

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.

Seat

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.
He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.

Seat

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.

Seat

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.

Seat

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

Seat

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

Seat

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.

Seat

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.
They had seated themselves in New Guiana.

Seat

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

Seat

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

Seat

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

Seat

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

Seat

To rest; to lie down.

Seat

A space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane);
He booked their seats in advance
He sat in someone else's place

Seat

The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;
He deserves a good kick in the butt
Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Seat

Furniture that is designed for sitting on;
There were not enough seats for all the guests

Seat

Any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit);
He dusted off the seat before sitting down

Seat

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

Seat

The cloth covering for the buttocks;
The seat of his pants was worn through

Seat

Show to a seat; assign a seat for;
The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith

Seat

Be able to seat;
The theater seats 2,000

Seat

Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position;
There was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy

Seat

Put a seat on a chair

Seat

Provide with seats;
Seat a concert hall

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