seat
noun
[ siːt ]
• a thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool.
• a person's buttocks.
Similar:
buttocks,
behind,
backside,
bottom,
rear,
rear end,
rump,
haunches,
hindquarters,
cheeks,
derrière,
Sitzfleisch,
sit-upon,
stern,
BTM,
tochus,
rusty dusty,
bum,
botty,
prat,
jacksie,
bahookie,
butt,
fanny,
tush,
tushie,
tail,
duff,
buns,
booty,
caboose,
heinie,
patootie,
keister,
tuchis,
bazoo,
bippy,
batty,
rass,
fundament,
posterior,
nates,
breech,
arse,
clunge,
ass,
• a place in an elected legislative or other body.
• "he lost his seat in the 1997 election"
• a principal site or location.
• "Parliament House was the seat of the Scots Parliament until the Union with England"
Similar:
headquarters,
location,
site,
whereabouts,
place,
base,
centre,
nerve centre,
nucleus,
centre of operations/activity,
hub,
focus,
focal point,
heart,
• a part of a machine that supports or guides another part.
• "if the valve seat is damaged, it can be recut using a special tool"
seat
verb
• arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere.
• "Owen seated his guests in the draughty baronial hall"
Similar:
position,
put,
place,
stand,
station,
install,
settle,
arrange,
dispose,
array,
range,
deploy,
plonk,
park,
posit,
• fit in position.
• "upper boulders were simply seated in the interstices below"
Origin:
Middle English (as a noun): from Old Norse sæti, from the Germanic base of sit. The verb dates from the late 16th century.
