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1. An area that includes places where several people can sit
   "there is seating for 40 students in this classroom";
   - seats, seating room, seating area
    
2. The service of ushering people to their seats
    
3. A period of time in which a restaurant serves guests
   "there are two seatings every evening"

1. Show to a seat; assign a seat for
   "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith";
   - sit, sit down
    
2. Be able to seat
   "The theatre seats 2,000"
    
3. Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position
   "there was a ceremony to seat the president of the Academy";
   - induct, invest
    
4. (cabinetwork) put a seat on a chair
    
5. (architecture) provide with seats
   "seat a concert hall"
    
6. Place or attach firmly in or on a base
   "seat the camera on the tripod"
    
7. Place in or on a seat
   "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"

Derived forms: seatings

Type of: accommodate, admit, elbow room, furnish, hold, instal, install, lay, offer, place, pose, position, provide, put, render, room, service, set, supply, way

Encyclopedia: Seating