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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
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Seat

A chair, stool, or bench on which to sit; may be built-in, such as a window seat.
Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture Copyright © 2012, 2002, 1998 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved

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.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

seat

1. In carpentry, same as seat cut.
2. In plumbing, same as valve seat.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

per seat

By workstation. See per seat license.
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Not BABILON, Nor great ALCAIRO such magnificence Equal'd in all thir glories, to inshrine BELUS or SERAPIS thir Gods, or seat Thir Kings, when AEGYPT with ASSYRIA strove In wealth and luxurie.
"I saw that you couldn't, and that's the reason I told you to take your seat, and left him in the corner.
On this he laid the two lambs on his chariot and took his seat. He gathered the reins in his hand, and Antenor sat beside him; the two then went back to Ilius.
'I merely wanted to observe, my Lord,' said the chemist, taking his seat with great deliberation, 'that I've left nobody but an errand-boy in my shop.
When he had thus spoken, he went back to the house and took the seat that he had left.
"Goodness!" she cried, grasping the iron rail of the seat. "What was that?"
Jerry bounced and swayed in his seat. The potent fluids of McGary were disquieted and they sent new fumes to his head.
Until his parent was placed comfortably in bed, with Natty seated at his side, Effingham did not quit him.
"It is my favorite seat, and I think it especially becoming to my complexion.
Edna seated herself with every appearance of discomfort.
Here were also seated the officers of the royal palace and of Ozma's army.
'No, not one more!' laughed she, and, instantly quitting her seat, she sought refuge at the window by which I was seated, and, in very desperation, to escape my brother's persecutions, endeavoured to draw me into conversation.
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