1
- a thing made or used for sitting on, such as a chair or stool座位。
1.1
- the roughly horizontal part of a chair, on which one's weight rests directly（椅子的）座部。
1.2
- a sitting place for a passenger in a vehicle or for a member of an audience（车辆上或观众的）座位：
we have a fairly small theatre with about 1,300 seats.
我们有一个约1,300个座位的较小剧场。
1.3
- chiefly Brit. a place in an elected parliament or council〈主英〉（议会或委员会中的）席位：
he lost his seat in the 1997 election.
他在1997年的选举中落选了。
1.4
- Brit. a parliamentary constituency〈英〉议会议员选区：
a safe Labour seat in the North-East.
工党在东北部稳操胜券的选区。
1.5
- a site or location of something specified地点; 地址：
Parliament House was the seat of the Scots Parliament until the Union with England.
直到与英格兰统一之前, 议会大厦一直是苏格兰议会的所在地。
1.6
- short for COUNTRY SEAT.COUNTRY SEAT的简称。
1.7
- a part of a machine that supports or guides another part（机器的）基座, 底座。
2
- a person's buttocks（人的）臀部。
2.1
- the part of a garment that covers the buttocks（裤子的）后裆下部, 臀部。
2.2
- a manner of sitting on a horse（骑马的）骑姿：
he's got the worst seat on a horse of anyone I've ever seen.
他骑马的姿势是我所见过中最差的。
with obj.
1- arrange for (someone) to sit somewhere使就座, 领…坐下：
Owen seated his guests in the draughty baronial hall.
欧文安排他的客人坐在凉风习习的豪华大厅里。
1.1
- （seat oneself 或be seated）sit down坐下：
she invited them to be seated
她请他们坐下
as adj. seated a dummy in a seated position.一个坐姿玩偶。
1.2
- (of a place such as a theatre or restaurant) have seats for (a specified number of people)（剧场、餐厅等）可容纳; 坐得下（一定数量的人）：
a large tent that seats 100 to 150 people.
一个可容纳100到150人的大帐篷。
1.3
- with obj. and adverbial of place fit in position固定, 安装：
upper boulders were simply seated in the interstices below.
上层卵石刚好填在下面的缝隙中。
短语
take one's seat
1
- sit down, typically in a seat assigned to one就座（尤指坐在指定的位置）。
1.1
- start to take part in the business of an assembly after being elected（当选后）就职。
派生词
seatless
adjective词源
Middle English (as a noun)： from Old Norse sæti, from the Germanic base of SIT. The verb dates from the late 16th cent.