Seat vs State - What's the difference?
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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.
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, title= # (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
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (1800-1859)
The starting point of a fire.
Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
* (George Eliot) (1819-1880)
To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
* Milton
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To provide with places to sit.
* Arbuthnot
* (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
To request or direct one or more persons to sit.
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.
To assign the seats of.
To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Raleigh
(obsolete) To rest; to lie down.
To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
To put a seat or bottom in.
A polity.
# Any sovereign polity; a government.
#* 20C , (Albert Einstein), as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
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, title= # A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
# (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
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# (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
# (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
# (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
# (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
# (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
High social standing or circumstance.
# Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
# Rank; condition; quality.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
# (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
#* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
# (obsolete) Estate, possession.
#* (Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
(mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
(lb) To declare to be a fact.
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To make known.
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Seat is a related term of state.
As a noun seat
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English
Noun
(en noun)The machine of a new soul, passage=But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.}}
- Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.
- He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.
- a seat of plenty, content, and tranquillity
- She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.
Derived terms
* bums in seats * seater/-seater * seat of governmentVerb
(en verb)- From their foundations, loosening to and fro, / They plucked the seated hills.
- The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.
- 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.
- Please seat the audience after the anthem and then introduce the first speaker.
- 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 seat a church
- Thus high is King Richard seated .
- They had seated themselves in New Guiana.
- (Spenser)
- to seat a country
- to seat a chair
See also
* county seat * seat cushion * seat of learning * seat of wisdom * sedentary * see * sitstate
English
Noun
(wikipedia state) (en noun)- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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- Well monarchies may own religion's name, / But states are atheists in their very fame.
- Declare the past and present state of things.
- Thy honour, state , and seat is due to me.
- She instructed him how he should keep state , and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.
- Can this imperious lord forget to reign, / Quit all his state , descend, and serve again?
- His high throne,under state / Of richest texture spread.
- When he went to court, he used to kick away the state , and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl.
- They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech.
- (Daniel)
- Your state , my lord, again is yours.