n. 座, 座位, 位子, 席位, 所在地

vt. 使坐下, 使就座, 为...设座于, 使就职

vi. 安装在底座上

[经] 席位

Seat \Seat\ (s[=e]t), n. [OE. sete, Icel. s[ae]ti; akin to Sw.
s["a]te, Dan. s[ae]de, MHG. s[=a]ze, AS. set, setl, and E.
sit. [root]154. See {Sit}, and cf. {Settle}, n.]
1. 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.
--Matt. xxi.
12.

2. 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.
--Rev. ii. 13.

He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat
committeth himself to prison. --Bacon.

A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity.
--Macaulay.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted
with any mount. --G. Eliot.

6. (Mach.) A part or surface on which another part or surface
rests; as, a valve seat.

{Seat worm} (Zo["o]l.), the pinworm.


Seat \Seat\, v. i.
To rest; to lie down. [Obs.] --Spenser.


Seat \Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Seated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Seating}.]
1. 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. --Arbuthnot.

2. 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. --Shak.

They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W.
Raleigh.

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

4. To fix; to set firm.

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

5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a
country. [Obs.] --W. Stith.

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