Word Meanings - SEAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat. Seat worm , the pinworm. (more info) MHG. saze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. sq. root154. See Sit, and cf. 1. The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made

Additional info about word: SEAT

A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat. Seat worm , the pinworm. (more info) MHG. saze, AS. set, setl, and E. sit. sq. root154. See Sit, and cf. 1. 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. And Jesus . . . overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves. Matt. xxi. 12. 2. 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. Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. Rev. ii. 13. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison. Bacon. A seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity. Macaulay. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback. She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEAT)

• Set t Seat
• place
• locate
• situate
• settle
• fix
• build
• rest
• establish
• ground
• perpetuate
• stabilitate
• confirm
• strengthen
• determine
• appoint
• assign
• cast
• risk
• wager
• surround
• bedeck
• garnish
• stud
• Situation
• Locality
• position
• top
• site
• seat
• post
• condition
• residence
• aspect
• footing
• office
• birth
• plight
• predicament
• standing
• Tribunal
• Judgment seat
• court of justice
• bench
• bar
• court

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SEAT)

• Repel
• abjure
• disaffect
• insult
• avoid
• repudiate

Related words: (words related to SEAT)

• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• REPELLENCE; REPELLENCY
  The principle of repulsion; the quality or capacity of repelling; repulsion.
• JUDGMENT
  The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• WAGERING
  Hazarding; pertaining to the act of one who wagers. Wagering policy. See Wager policy, under Policy.
• GARNISHMENT
  1. Ornament; embellishment; decoration. Sir H. Wotton. Warning, or legal notice, to one to appear and give information to the court on any matter. Warning to a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, not to pay the
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• PERPETUATE
  To make perpetual; to cause to endure, or to be continued, indefinitely; to preserve from extinction or oblivion; to eternize. Addison. Burke.
• GARNISHEE
  One who is garnished; a person upon whom garnishment has been served in a suit by a creditor against a debtor, such person holding property belonging to the debtor, or owing him money. Note: The order by which warning is made is called a garnishee
• FOOTMARK
  A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• GARNISHER
  One who, or that which, garnishes.
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• FOOTPLATE
  See
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• GOOSEFOOT
  A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• SURFOOT
  Tired or sore of foot from travel; lamed. Nares.
• DEGARNISHMENT
  The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or a garrison.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• FOURFOOTED
  Having four feet; quadruped; as, fourfooted beasts.