Seat vs. Chair

Seatnoun

Something to be sat upon.

Seatnoun

A place in which to sit.

Seatnoun

The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.

Seatnoun

A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.

Seatnoun

The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.

Seatnoun

The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.

Seatnoun

(engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.

Seatnoun

A location or site.

Seatnoun

(figurative) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

Seatnoun

The location of a governing body.

Seatnoun

(certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.

Seatnoun

The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated or resides; a site.

Seatnoun

The starting point of a fire.

Seatnoun

Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

Seatverb

(transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.

Seatverb

(transitive) To provide with places to sit.

Seatverb

(transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.

Seatverb

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.

Seatverb

(transitive) To assign the seats of.

Seatverb

(transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

Seatverb

To rest; to lie down.

Seatverb

To settle; to plant with inhabitants.

Seatverb

To put a seat or bottom in.

Seatnoun

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.

Seatnoun

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.

Seatnoun

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.

Seatnoun

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.

Seatnoun

Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

Seatnoun

A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.

Seatverb

To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.

Seatverb

To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.

Seatverb

To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.

Seatverb

To fix; to set firm.

Seatverb

To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.

Seatverb

To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.

Seatverb

To rest; to lie down.

Seatnoun

a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane);

Seatnoun

the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on;

Seatnoun

furniture that is designed for sitting on;

Seatnoun

any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit);

Seatnoun

a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised)

Seatnoun

the cloth covering for the buttocks;

Seatverb

show to a seat; assign a seat for;

Seatverb

be able to seat;

Seatverb

place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position;

Seatverb

put a seat on a chair

Seatverb

provide with seats;

Seatnoun

a thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool.

Seatnoun

the roughly horizontal part of a chair, on which one's weight rests directly.

Seatnoun

a sitting place for a passenger in a vehicle or for a member of an audience

Seatnoun

a person's buttocks.

Seatnoun

the part of a garment that covers the buttocks.

Seatnoun

a manner of sitting on a horse

Seatnoun

a place in an elected legislative or other body

Seatnoun

a parliamentary constituency

Seatnoun

a principal site or location

Seatnoun

short for country seat

Seatnoun

a part of a machine that supports or guides another part

Seatverb

arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere

Seatverb

sit down

Seatverb

(of a vehicle or building) have seats for (a specified number of people)

Seatverb

fit in position

Seat

A seat is a place to sit. The term may encompass additional features, such as back, armrest, head restraint but also headquarters in a wider sense.

Chairnoun

An item of furniture used to sit on or in comprising a seat, legs, back, and sometimes arm rests, for use by one person. Compare stool, couch, sofa, settee, loveseat and bench.

Chairnoun

(music) The seating position of a particular musician in an orchestra.

Chairnoun

(rail transport) An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers, and similar devices.

Chairnoun

(chemistry) One of two possible conformers of cyclohexane rings (the other being boat), shaped roughly like a chair.

Chairnoun

A distinguished professorship at a university.

Chairnoun

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or a two-wheeled carriage drawn by one horse; a gig.

Chairverb

(transitive) to act as chairperson at; to preside over

Chairverb

(transitive) to carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory

Chairverb

to award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod

Chairnoun

A movable single seat with a back.

Chairnoun

An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself.

Chairnoun

The presiding officer of an assembly; a chairman; as, to address the chair.

Chairnoun

A vehicle for one person; either a sedan borne upon poles, or two-wheeled carriage, drawn by one horse; a gig.

Chairnoun

An iron block used on railways to support the rails and secure them to the sleepers.

Chairverb

To place in a chair.

Chairverb

To carry publicly in a chair in triumph.

Chairverb

To function as chairperson of (a meeting, committee, etc.); as, he chaired the meeting.

Chairnoun

a seat for one person, with a support for the back;

Chairnoun

the position of professor;

Chairnoun

the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization;

Chairnoun

an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair;

Chairverb

act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university;

Chairverb

preside over;

Chair

One of the basic pieces of furniture, a chair is a type of seat. Its primary features are two pieces of a durable material, attached as back and seat to one another at a 90° or slightly greater angle, with usually the four corners of the horizontal seat attached in turn to four legs—or other parts of the seat's underside attached to three legs or to a shaft about which a four-arm turnstile on rollers can turn—strong enough to support the weight of a person who sits on the seat (usually wide and broad enough to hold the lower body from the buttocks almost to the knees) and leans against the vertical back (usually high and wide enough to support the back to the shoulder blades).