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Seat can be a verb or a noun.

seat used as a verb:

  1. To put an object into a place where it will rest.
    "Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover."
  2. To provide places to sit.
    "This classroom seats two hundred students."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

seat used as a noun:

  1. A place in which to sit.
    "There are two hundred seats in this classroom."
  2. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.
    "He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat which always annoyed his mother."
  3. A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
    "She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down."
  4. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.
    "Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair"."
  5. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
    "The seat of these trousers is almost worn through."
  6. A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.
    "Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress."
  7. The location of a governing body.
    "Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government."
  8. an electoral district, especially for a national legislature.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'seat' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: Be sure to seat the gasket properly before attaching the cover.
  2. Verb usage: This classroom seats two hundred students.
  3. Noun usage: There are two hundred seats in this classroom.
  4. Noun usage: He sat on the arm of the chair rather than the seat which always annoyed his mother.
  5. Noun usage: She pulled the seat from under the table to allow him to sit down.
  6. Noun usage: Instead of saying "sit down", she said "place your seat on this chair".
  7. Noun usage: The seat of the valve had become corroded.
  8. Noun usage: The seat of these trousers is almost worn through.
  9. Noun usage: Our neighbor has a seat at the stock exchange and in congress.
  10. Noun usage: Washington D.C. is the seat of the U.S. government.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of seat are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of seat, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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