seats
座位,座椅,席位,座位数
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Definitions
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- : something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits.
- : the part of a chair, sofa, or the like, on which one sits.
- : the part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks.
- : the part of the garment covering it: the seat of one's pants.
- : a manner of or posture used in sitting, as on a horse.
- : something on which the base of an object rests.
- : the base itself.
- : a place in which something belongs, occurs, or is established; site; location.
- : a place in which administrative power or the like is centered: the seat of the government.
- : a part of the body considered as the place in which an emotion or function is centered: The heart is the seat of passion.
- : the office or authority of a king, bishop, etc.: the episcopal seat.
- : a space in which a spectator or patron may sit; accommodation for sitting, as in a theater or stadium.
Phrases
- seat of the pants, by the
- backseat driver
- catbird seat
- hot seat
- in the driver's seat
- ringside seat
- take a back seat
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
If Biden wins the election, the Democratic Party will almost certainly gain seats in the US Senate.
Right now, people think like, “All right, I go past this place and all these seats are outside and people are hanging out.”
We use each seat’s predicted probabilities to run simulations of the 2018 congressional elections.
By that point, Perry had reclaimed his seat on the board of Energy Transfer and acquired its stock.
For the past three years, the share of new board seats filled by nonwhite candidates has remained stalled at 23%.
They want to change bad behaviors—tobacco, alcohol, using a seat belt, anything.
On the Democratic side, many expect former Rep. Mike McMahon to make another run at the seat.
Interestingly, if Grimm is expelled, he is not legally prohibited from running in the special election for his seat.
This means every Senate seat will be Republican, and 80 percent of the House seats will be, too.
There, he allegedly pulled her into the back seat of his black Pontiac.
Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
Pierre Van Cortlandt, a distinguished revolutionary patriot, died at his seat at Croton river, aged 94.
Aristide clambered back to his seat, took the child on his knees, and commiserated it profoundly.
He deposited it on the vacant seat, clambered up behind the wheel, and started.