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seat
1. Politics a membership or the right to membership in a legislative or similar body
2. Chiefly Brit a parliamentary constituency
3. the manner in which a rider sits on a horse
4. on seat W African informal (of officials) in the office rather than on tour or on leave
seat [sēt]
(mechanical engineering)
The fixed, pressure-containing portion of a valve which comes into contact with the moving portions of that valve.
(ordnance)
Support or holder for a mechanism, or for a part of one.
To fit correctly in or on a holder, or prepared position, such as to seat a fuse in a bomb, a projectile in the bore of a gun, or a cartridge in a chamber.
seat
1. In carpentry, same as seat cut.
2. In plumbing, same as valve seat.
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By midnight, seatless members of the audience had been on their feet for three and a half hours and there was still no sign of Akon.
A night of true blues but no rhythm with Akon by Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
Witness Layson a Stick, 1989, in which two jointed broomsticks, jutting out from the wall, are draped with yellow and green plastic leis, or Untitled: (Bra), 1987, a composition assembled from wood, Formica, and painted broomsticks that looks more like a seatless stool seen from below, legs splayed.
Al Taylor: Zwirner & Wirth by Sholis, Brian / Artforum International
Travellers with tears in their eyes recalled fondly the days of GNER and even British Rail, and were only too happy to reach Berwick and freedom from the seatless, drinkless cattle trucks until they realised that 20 minutes late running had conspired to cost everyone their bus connections.
Travellers with tears in their eyes recalled fondly the days of GNER; ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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