(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.
Sheat
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In the absence of Ca2+ and in the presence of [ethylenebis(oxoethylenenitrilo)]tetraacetic acid (EGTA), the protein contains 30-35% alpha helix, 50% random coil, and 15-20% beta-pleated sheat.
(2) The biochemical and histochemical data may show that the anthocyanosides protect the altered capillary walls with a double mechanism: a) increasing the endothelium barrier-effect through a stabilisation of the membrane phospholipids and b) increasing the biosynthetic processes of the acid mucopolysaccharides of the connective ground substance, by restoring the altered mucopolysaccharidic pericapillary sheat.
(3) After describing the morphological and biological relations in the intact human flexor tendon and tendon sheat unit authors deal in details with the severe injuries of the flexor tendons inside the tendon sheat, having a bad prognosis.
(4) The importance of the integrity of the tendon sheat--subcutis--skin unit is presented.
(5) For this purpose the generalized logistic function is chosen for a quantitative and qualitative description of the connection between axon caliber and myelin sheat thickness.
(6) In spleen NK-9 positive cells were located mainly in periarteriolar lymphocyte sheats and in germinal centers.
(7) There was a moderate to severe degeneration of the white matter consisting of marked axonal degradation and distension and degradation of myelin sheats in all parts of the spinal cord as well as in the medulla oblongata.
(8) Ultrastructural study showed an excess of glycogen granules below the sarcolemmal sheat and between myofibrils, often associated with clusters of mitochondria.
(9) In the same area the staining for myelin sheats gives positive results.
(10) The bacteria isolated from the Aufwuchs mainly belonged to the genera Pseudomonas, Flavobacterium, Acinetobacter, Caulobacter, sheated bacteria and other gramnegative physiologically nonreactiv roads.
(11) Failure in myelin is rather the consequence of an early interruption of myelination as that of demyelination (a destruction of the sheats).
(12) The results of the present investigations may serve, over the description of the normal anatomical relations, as a comparison to other experiments of two-phase tendon transplantations with the formation of pseudo tendon sheats and also for clinical practice.
(13) All X-rays showed a clear outline of the spinal canal and the roof sheat.
(14) Three groups of 3 calves were infected with the following batches of third-stage larvae: (a) fresh, sheated; (b) fresh, exsheathed; (c) exsheathed, cryopreserved for 13 weeks in liquid nitrogen and subsequently thawed.
(15) Using the Copper thiocholine method for electron microscopic cytochemistry the reaction product was found at the axolemmal surface, in the cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum of neurons and occasionally between the infoldings of the sheat cells surounding the axons.
(16) The recommendations go from gluing with fibrin glue only, if anything at all, over quilting stitches, perhaps in combination with silastic or teflon sheats or plates or these sheats alone, to the employment of various more substantial materials and in from 1 to even 14 days postoperatively.
(17) Application of the biostatistical procedure of empirical regression on a first data processing stage is demonstrated by examples from morphometrical research concerning the connection between axon caliber and thickness of myelin sheat of nerve fibers.
(18) Endothelial cell damage was recognized by morphological alterations during reformation of a coherent cell sheat after expulsion of damaged cells.
(19) fibulocalcaneare forms a groove which takes up the tendon sheat of the peroneal tendson.
(20) This observation clearly indicates that in this experimental disease it is not only the increased catabolism of lipid constituents furnishing the various membraneous structures, including myelin sheats, but also an overall impaired capacity of synthesing new lipids by the diseased cells of the nervous system which must be taken into consideration.