What's the difference between capital and seat?

Capital


Definition:

  • (n.) Of or pertaining to the head.
  • (n.) Having reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment.
  • (n.) First in importance; chief; principal.
  • (n.) Chief, in a political sense, as being the seat of the general government of a state or nation; as, Washington and Paris are capital cities.
  • (n.) Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song.
  • (n.) The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. See these terms, and Column.
  • (n.) The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis.
  • (n.) Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
  • (a.) That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
  • (a.) Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
  • (a.) An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
  • (a.) A chapter, or section, of a book.
  • (a.) See Capital letter, under Capital, a.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
  • (2) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
  • (3) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
  • (4) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
  • (5) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
  • (6) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
  • (7) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
  • (8) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
  • (9) There is a European Investment Bank, a Nordic Investment Bank and many others, all capitalised by states or groups of states for the purpose of financing mandated projects by borrowing in the capital markets.
  • (10) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
  • (11) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
  • (12) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
  • (13) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
  • (14) At least 10,000 civilians took refuge in UN compounds in the capital, said one UN official who asked not to be named.
  • (15) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
  • (16) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
  • (17) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
  • (18) A dam Johnson's point may need proving towards Roberto Mancini rather than Manuel Pellegrini, but Manchester City will still be aware of a Sunderland player with a cause in the Capital One Cup final.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
  • (20) China's best-known artist Ai Weiwei has been detained at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded his studio in the capital.

Seat


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
  • (n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
  • (v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
  • (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
  • (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
  • (v. t.) To fix; to set firm.
  • (v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
  • (v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
  • (v. i.) To rest; to lie down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (3) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
  • (4) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (5) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
  • (6) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (7) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
  • (8) Animals were chronically implanted with epidural or deep recording electrodes and a cannula in one lateral ventricle, and tested whilst seated in a primate chair.
  • (9) Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered.
  • (10) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
  • (11) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
  • (12) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
  • (13) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
  • (14) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
  • (15) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
  • (16) The nervous system might therefore be the seat of carcinine biosynthesis and thus the site of action of histamine.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
  • (18) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
  • (19) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
  • (20) Clinton lost the presidency and Democrats lost those seats, as Democrats suffered staggering defeats across two branches of government.