(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.
Stroller
Definition:
(n.) One who strolls; a vagrant.
Example Sentences:
(1) When she was about two, three months old he bought me a stroller and a $700 crib.
(2) The 4-in-1 Combi (£499) saves you buying multiple products, as it’s a carrycot, car seat and pushchair rolled into one, and the Upp stroller (£199) is suitable for children of six months plus.
(3) A paramedic who was at the scene said he treated the baby’s mother for a serious head wound and that the car had hit the baby’s stroller.
(4) Infants, raised to be white, were bundled in strollers.
(5) I'd bought half a dozen oysters, some bread and sausage and sat watching strollers, cyclists, runners and roller bladers taking full advantage of the promenade.
(6) Praia do Cabeço is popular with clammers but also families and strollers, and runs from Monte Gordo to Manta Rota.
(7) Last week, one such stroller jam in San Antonio, Texas was disrupted after Target reportedly asked the demonstrators to leave the parking lot , prompting complaints that the chain was treating pro-gun activists more leniently than those who are trying to improve public safety in America.
(8) Rue de la Caisserie was laid out by Greek settlers more than 2,000 years ago, and has been busy with shoppers, strollers and drinkers ever since.
(9) Often such injuries and deaths are associated with use of consumer products, including products designed for children aged less than 1 year (i.e., strollers, walkers, car seats, and infant carriers [ICs]).
(10) Sherry West said she had just been to the post office a few blocks from her apartment on Thursday morning and was pushing her son, Antonio, in his stroller when she was approached by a tall, skinny teenager, accompanied by a smaller boy.
(11) The event, which coincided on Saturday with Shared Streets, closed car traffic from Park Avenue near Central Park down along more than 60 blocks for five hours, allowing cyclists and casual strollers unimpeded, avenue-wide access.
(12) These were thought to be due to a fall from a stroller.
(13) Among those killed in the hit-and-run attacks have been a three-month-old child, Chaya Zissel Braun , struck in her stroller, a Druze border policeman, Jedan Assad, and a 17-year-old religious student, Shalom Baadani.
(14) This comes at the heels of two Muslim women in Brooklyn who were physically assaulted by a woman as they pushed their babies in strollers.
(15) Sitting in her stroller last month as her mother pushed her through Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, Mila looked anything but distressed.
(16) Here comes a young couple, the man with his arm around the woman's waist, the woman pushing a stroller.
(17) Lincoln Park is full of strollers now, ambling up and down Wells Street.
(18) Nykea Aldridge, a cousin of the NBA star Dwyane Wade, was shot and killed in Chicago on Friday, while pushing her baby in a stroller near a school where she intended to register her children.
(19) When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o'clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something.
(20) The vision is for an "aquatic National Trust" galvanising the estimated 11 million Britons who regularly benefit from them – boaters, anglers, cyclists, runners, Sunday strollers and waterside property dwellers – to invest time and money to protecting them for generations to come.