seating

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

“Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.”

To provide with places to sit.

“The waiter seated us and asked what we would like to drink.”

To request or direct one or more persons to sit.

“Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.”

(legislature) 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.

“Only half the delegates from the state were seated at the convention because the state held its primary too early.”

To assign the seats of.

“to seat a church”

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

To rest; to lie down.

To settle; to plant with inhabitants.

“to seat a country”

To put a seat or bottom in.

“to seat a chair”

(gerund) The act of one that seats.

“The seating of passengers will begin soon.”

The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.

“There is plenty of comfortable seating.”

A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated.

“The first seating begins at 5 o'clock.”

Material for making seats.

“cane seating”

Haircloth.

Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.

That part of the floor which rests on the keel.