Seatest vs Beatest - What's the difference?
seatest | beatest |
(archaic) (seat)
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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# The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated or resides; a site.
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#* (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.
(archaic) (beat)
A stroke; a blow.
* Dryden
A pulsation or throb.
A pulse on the beat level, the metric level at which pulses are heard as the basic unit. Thus a beat is the basic time unit of a piece.
A rhythm.
(music) A transient grace note, struck immediately before the one it is intended to ornament.
The interference between two tones of almost equal frequency
A short pause in a play, screenplay, or teleplay, for dramatic or comedic effect.
The route patrolled by a police officer or a guard.
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(by extension) An area of a person's responsibility, especially
# In journalism, the primary focus of a reporter's stories (such as police/courts, education, city government, business etc.).
(dated) A place of habitual or frequent resort.
(archaic) A low cheat or swindler.
The instrumental portion of a piece of hip-hop music.
To hit; to knock; to pound; to strike.
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To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm.
To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly.
* Bible, Judges xix. 22
* Dryden
* Longfellow
* Bible, Jonath iv. 8
* Francis Bacon
To move with pulsation or throbbing.
* Byron
To win against; to defeat or overcome; to do better than, outdo, or excel (someone) in a particular, competitive event.
(nautical) To sail to windward using a series of alternate tacks across the wind.
To strike (water, foliage etc.) in order to drive out game; to travel through (a forest etc.) for hunting.
* 1955 , (Robin Jenkins), The Cone-Gatherers , Canongate 2012, p. 81:
To mix food in a rapid fashion. Compare whip.
(transitive, UK, In haggling for a price) of a buyer, to persuade the seller to reduce a price
(nonstandard)
* 1825? , "Hannah Limbrick, Executed for Murder", in The Newgate Calendar: comprising interesting memoirs of the most notorious characters , page 231:
To indicate by beating or drumming.
To tread, as a path.
* Blackmore
To exercise severely; to perplex; to trouble.
* John Locke
To be in agitation or doubt.
* Shakespeare
To make a sound when struck.
(military) To make a succession of strokes on a drum.
To sound with more or less rapid alternations of greater and less intensity, so as to produce a pulsating effect; said of instruments, tones, or vibrations, not perfectly in unison.
(US slang) exhausted
dilapidated, beat up
(gay slang) fabulous
(slang) boring
(slang, of a person) ugly
In archaic terms the difference between seatest and beatest
is that seatest is archaic second-person singular of seat while beatest is archaic second-person singular of beat.seatest
English
Verb
(head)seat
English
Noun
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- 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 * sitbeatest
English
Verb
(head)beat
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) beten, from (etyl) ). Compare (etyl) batre, (etyl) battre.Noun
(en noun)- He, with a careless beat , / Struck out the mute creation at a heat.
- a beat''' of the heart; the '''beat of the pulse
- to walk the beat
- ''a dead beat
Derived terms
* afterbeat * backbeat, back beat * beat the meat * D-beat * deadbeat * downbeat * drumbeat * forebeat * heartbeat * inbeat * misbeat * offbeat * onbeat * outbeat * underbeat * upbeat * walk the beatSee also
* (piece of hip-hop music) trackVerb
- As soon as she heard that Wiktionary was shutting down, she went into a rage and beat the wall with her fists until her knuckles bled.
- He danced hypnotically while she beat the atabaque.
- The men of the city beat at the door.
- Rolling tempests vainly beat below.
- They [winds] beat at the crazy casement.
- The sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die.
- Public envy seemeth to beat chiefly upon ministers.
- A thousand hearts beat happily.
- Jan had little trouble beating John in tennis. He lost five games in a row.
- No matter how quickly Joe finished his test, Roger always beat him.
- I just can't seem to beat the last level of this video game.
- The part of the wood to be beaten for deer sloped all the way from the roadside to the loch.
- Beat the eggs and whip the cream.
- He wanted $50 for it, but I managed to beat him down to $35.
- Thomas Limbrick, who was only nine years of age, said he lived with his mother when Deborah was beat : that his mother throwed her down all along with her hands; and then against a wall
- to beat''' a retreat''; ''to '''beat to quarters
- pass awful gulfs, and beat my painful way
- Why should any one beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic?
- to still my beating mind
- The drums beat .
- The drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters.
Derived terms
* beat a retreat * beat down * beat off * beater * beat about the bush * beat senseless * beat somebody to the punch * beat some sense into * beat the clock * beat the pants off * beat to quarters * beat up * beat to a pulp * bebeat * forbeat * inbeat * misbeat * overbeat * tobeat * underbeat * wife-beaterAdjective
(en adjective)- After the long day, she was feeling completely beat .
- Dude, you drive a beat car like that and you ain’t gonna get no honeys.
- Her makeup was beat!