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1. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.Examples: "Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover."; "From their foundations, loosening to and fro, / They plucked the seated hills."; "One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier."transitive

2. (transitive) To provide with a place to sit.Examples: "This classroom seats two hundred students."; "The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink."; "The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate."transitive

3. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.Examples: "Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker."transitive

4. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.Examples: "Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early."; "You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section."transitive

5. (transitive) To assign the seats of.Examples: "to seat a church"transitive

6. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.Examples: "This valve isn't seating properly."; "Thus high […] is King Richard seated."; "They had seated themselves in Nova Guiana."transitive

1. (US, aviation, firefighting) Acronym of single-engine air tanker.USabbreviationacronymalt-of