Seat vs Case - What's the difference?

Seat is a related term of case.

As nouns the difference between seat and case

is that seat is (us|aviation|firefighting|acronym) single engine air tanker while case is (label) abstract feature of a noun phrase that determines its function in a sentence, such as a grammatical case and a position.

seat

English

Noun

(en noun)

Something to be sat upon.

# A place in which to sit.

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# The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.

# A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.

# The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.

# The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.

# (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.

A location or site.

# (figurative) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

# The location of a governing body.

#* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

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# (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.

# The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated or resides; a site.

#* Bible, (w) ii. 13

Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.

#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.

#* (1800-1859)

a seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity

The starting point of a fire.

Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.

* (George Eliot) (1819-1880)

She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.

Derived terms

* bums in seats * seater/-seater * seat of government

Verb

(en verb)

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

* Milton

From their foundations, loosening to and fro, / They plucked the seated hills.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.}}

To provide with places to sit.

* Arbuthnot

The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.

* (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)

He used to seat you on the piano and then, with vehement gestures and pirouettings, would argue the case. Not one word of the speech did you understand.

To request or direct one or more persons to sit.

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

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.

You have to be a member to be seated at the meeting. Guests are welcome to sit in the visitors section.

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.

* Shakespeare

Thus high is King Richard seated .

* Sir Walter Raleigh

They had seated themselves in New Guiana.

(obsolete) To rest; to lie down.

(Spenser)

To settle; to plant with inhabitants.

to seat a country

To put a seat or bottom in.

to seat a chair

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case

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) cas, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

An actual event, situation, or fact.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

A given condition or state.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.10:

Ne wist he how to turne, nor to what place: / Was never wretched man in such a wofull cace .

A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case . Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.}}

(label) An instance or event as a topic of study.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April, author=John T. Jost

, volume=100, issue=2, page=162, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases , the fossil record.}}

(label) A legal proceeding, lawsuit.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case , were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}

(label) A specific inflection of a word depending on its function in the sentence.

Now, the Subject of either an indicative or a subjunctive Clause is always assigned Nominative'' case''', as we see from:
(16) (a) I know [that ''they''/*''them''/*''their'' leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
(16) (b) I demand [that ''they''/*''them''/*''their'' leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
By contrast, the Subject of an infinitive Clause is assigned ''Objective'' '''case''', as we see from:
(17) I want [''them''/*''they''/*''their'' to leave for Hawaii tomorrow]
And the Subject of a ''gerund'' Clause is assigned either ''Objective'' or ''Genitive'' '''case : cf.
(18) I don't like the idea of [''them''/''their''/*''they leaving for Hawaii tomorrow]

Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.

(label) An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.

A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.

* 2004 , Rick Miller, C++ for Artists

Place a break statement at the end of every case to prevent case fall-through.

* 2011 , Stephen Prata, C++ Primer Plus (page 275)

Execution does not automatically stop at the next case .

Synonyms

* *

Derived terms

* be the case * case study * court case * hard case * in case * just in case * Case

Hyponyms

* See also

Verb

(cas)

(obsolete) To propose hypothetical cases.

* L'Estrange

Casing upon the matter.

Etymology 2

From Middle English cas, from .

Noun

(en noun)

A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.

A box, sheath, or covering generally.

a case''' for spectacles; the '''case of a watch

A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.

An enclosing frame or casing.

a door case'''; a window '''case

A suitcase.

A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.

The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.

(printing, historical) A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).

(typography, by extension) The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.

(poker slang) Four of a kind.

(US) A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.

(mining) A small fissure which admits water into the workings.

(Knight)

Derived terms

* * briefcase * camel case * (noun) * case harden * letter case * lower case * packing case * sentence case * title case * upper case

References

* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Adjective

(-)

(poker slang) The last remaining card of a particular rank.

He drew the case eight!

References

* Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

Verb

(cas)

To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.

To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.

* Prescott

The man who, cased in steel, had passed whole days and nights in the saddle.

(informal) To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.

* 1977 , (Michael Innes), The Gay Phoenix , ISBN 9780396074427, p. 116:

You are in the grounds of Brockholes Abbey, a house into which a great deal of valuable property has just been moved. And your job is to case the joint for a break in.

* 2014 , (Amy Goodman), From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence (Part 2) , Democracy Now!, January 8, 2014, 0:49 to 0:57:

Bonnie worked as a daycare director. She helped case the FBI office by posing as a college student interested in becoming an FBI agent.

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