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Seating   /sˈitɪŋ/   Listen
noun
Seating  n.  
1.
The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
2.
The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.


verb
Seat  v. t.  (past & past part. seated; pres. part. seating)  
1.
To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self. "The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate."
2.
To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. "Thus high... is King Richard seated." "They had seated themselves in New Guiana."
3.
To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
4.
To fix; to set firm. "From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills."
5.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. (Obs.)
6.
To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.


Seat  v. i.  To rest; to lie down. (Obs.)





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"Seating" Quotes from Famous Books



... Seating himself on the opposite side of the table, he said quietly, "You think I have no right to speak to you in such ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... nothing else offering, he cleared his rough counter of glasses, plunged them into a bucket of filthy water, and set them out to drain. Then he turned his attention to his two oil lamps. He snuffed them with his dirty fingers in a vain attempt to improve their miserable light. Then, seating himself upon his counter, he lit a cheap green ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum
... in competition with the finest of orchestras. But nothing disastrous happened. Those who desired, to the number of fifteen thousand, heard Sousa at his opening concert in the Court of the Universe; those who desired heard Dr. Muck's instrumentalists, to the seating ...
— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber
... And seating herself on a stool near the pallet, she turned over in her mind in what way she could best execute ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... cowardice were blended in the deep blue eyes, pride and dejection in the firm step, strength and weakness in the loving smile she bestowed upon the faithful counsellors. After the greetings she requested them to draw chairs about the great table. Seating herself in her accustomed seat, she gazed over the circle of anxious faces and realized, more than at any time in her young life, that she was frail and weak beyond all comparison. How small she was ...
— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon


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