(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.
Sett
Definition:
(n.) See Set, n., 2 (e) and 3.
Example Sentences:
(1) I tried hard not to think of a time hence when I could count every tree in the wood, when the badger sett would be in an open field.
(2) Badger baiting and sett interference, including tunnels being ploughed up by farmers or dug out by property developers, were the most frequently-reported incidents.
(3) The submaximum effort tourniquet technique (SETT) is becoming more widely used as part of the clinical assessment of chronic pain patients despite little information about the scaling of this technique.
(4) Somerset police have recorded three reports in the last 15 months: one for a badger killing and two for interfering with a badger sett.
(5) The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) response to the freedom of information request stated the trials aimed to "determine whether any available mechanisms have the potential to achieve humane and effective outcomes in real sett situations".
(6) The tests, at an undisclosed location, are examining how the poisons carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide flow through complex badger setts.
(7) If you put a high seat over a sett you could kill most of them fairly quickly.
(8) Two cases of CAGE treated by recompression after submarine escape tank training (SETT) accidents are described.
(9) Mead, an influential figure in the region, is in favour of gassing diseased badgers in their setts to control bovine TB in cattle, a technique which was scrapped by the government in 1982 after scientific experiments showed it was inhumane for badgers that received sub-lethal doses of the poison.
(10) Almost 700 incidents of badger persecution were reported in 2013, including badgers killed by dogs and snares and setts gassed with vehicle exhausts, according to a report by the Badger Trust .
(11) Investigations are continuing into eight of the 27 reports, which also includes illegal interference with setts.
(12) Badgers consistently avoided close contact with cattle by changing routes from sett to foraging site and by foraging much less in areas of fields occupied by cattle.
(13) "He confirmed the final licence conditions had yet to be met by the cullers but could be fulfilled at any time, meaning badgers could begin to be killed immediately.As winter approaches, time is fast running out for the cull to begin because badgers lie low in their setts in the cold weather.
(14) On the back flyleaf are the names of 26 plants, 22 of which were "To be sett & sawin in ye garding".
(15) Two residential floors for the disabled in a Home for the Jewish Aged were the setttings for this research.
(16) One hundred eleven impotent men and 25 potent men were prospectively evaluated with a standardized exercise treadmill test (SETT) used to noninvasively define their pelvic hemodynamics.
(17) The Badger Trust report details a wide range of badger persecution, such as poisoning and setts being burned out with petrol.
(18) Ratio scaling procedures resulted in a linear function, presumed to underlie clinical application of the SETT, for only 11% of the subjects.
(19) Animal welfare groups were further outraged when the ministry demonstrated how to use snares and Nature Conservancy, recognising political realities, urged gassing setts instead, which was considered humane by animal welfare organisations.
(20) Secret government trials of gassing badger setts have been underway since the summer of 2013, according to documents released under freedom of information rules on Thursday.