Crossword clues for seating
seating
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seat \Seat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seated; p. pr. & vb. n. Seating.]
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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.
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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.
--Shak.They had seated themselves in New Guiana.
--Sir W. Raleigh. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
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To fix; to set firm.
From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills.
--Milton. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.]
--W. Stith.To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
Seating \Seat"ing\ (s[=e]t"[i^]ng), n.
The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit 2 (context countable English) A period of time in which a restaurant will seat guests vb. (present participle of seat English)
WordNet
n. an area that includes seats for several people; "there is seating for 40 students in this classroom" [syn: seats, seating room, seating area]
the service of ushering people to their seats
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "seating".
Wide, comfortable tan-colored cushions, similar in appearance and texture to the evesmol seat on Ha-Ta, covered their seating areas.
Little liking had I for seating myself within a device of city folk, yet my strength had ebbed and there was much to do.
Except for the cruciform seating arrangement and a rank of images along one wall, the place resembled an industrial lunchroom.
The other half of the seating was open to lesser prelates, faculty, priests, monks, and students, in that order of preference.
Nimmy sat surrounded by four Nomads, and it seemed to him that the others took a different seating arrangement than before.
There was a brief period of desultory chat, then Pitts herded them toward a large round table, seating Will next to him.
Ceralt with effort, seating himself upon the grass so that he might look down upon me where I lay beneath the bulk of Mehrayn, my cheek and body to the damp of the grass, striving uselessly against the strength of the male who held me.
I corrected the male, seating myself upon the softness so that I might look upon him more easily.
Aysayn when I again showed hesitation, seating himself beside me upon the floor cloth.
I said, removing my sword and seating myself upon my sleeping leather, then reaching for my pipe and sack.
We moved from the metal then, seating ourselves without speaking, and soon, perhaps, Fayan regretted her choice.
Briefly I stood watching her torment, then I walked slowly to the rear of the tent, seating myself by the post that stood there, leaning my shoulder and face upon it.
I did not care overmuch for its appearance, but such odd seating was clearly custom.
Though she had already been well briefed on who would and would not be present, the seating arrangements, and which of the delegation were figureheads, and which were the real movers and shakers in Congress, her staff could not tell her what the attitude of the senators and congressmen would be at the time of the meeting.
A pair of avocado trees and a giant dieffenbachia brought the forest inside and separated a sunken tile hot tub from a casual seating area.