Seat

Definition

seat /si:t/ n ၁။ (က) ထိုင္စရာ။ She leaned back in her seat. ❍ He put his shopping on the seat beside him. ❍ take a seat (ie sit down) ❍ a stone seat in the garden ❍ a window/corner seat (ie one near a window/in a corner) ❍ a child seat (ie for a child, eg in a car). See also BACK SEAT ❍ CAR (ခ) ကုလားထိုင္အခင္းျပင္။ a chair with a leather seat and a wooden back. ၂။ (ယာဥ္၊ ဇာတ္႐ံု စသည္)ထိုင္ခံု။ There are no seats left on the flight. ❍ book/reserve two seats for the concert ❍ seat prices. ❍ SPACE ၃။ (က) (ဥပေဒျပဳအဖြဲ႕၊ ေကာင္စီ၊ ေကာ္မတီဝင္) ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ လူႀကီးေနရာ။ a seat on the city council/in Parliament ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေကာင္စီဝင္ တစ္ေနရာ။ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ တစ္ေနရာ။ ❍ take one's seat (ie begin one's duties, esp in Parliament) ❍ win/lose a seat (ie in an election) ❍ The Democrats have a majority of 21 seats in the Senate. (ခ) မဲဆႏၵနယ္။ a seat in Devon. See also SAFE SEAT ၄။ ( fml ) အေျခစိုက္ရာ။ ႐ံုးစိုက္ရာ။ ရိပ္ၿမံဳ။ ဌာနီ။ Washington is the seat of government of the USA. ဝါရွင္တန္သည္ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုအစိုးရ ႐ံုးစိုက္ရာ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ❍ a university town renowned as a seat of learning. ပညာ့ရိပ္ၿမံဳဟု ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ၾကားေသာ တကၠသိုလ္ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္။ See also COUNTY SEAT ၅။ (also country seat ) (နယ္ရိွ)အိမ္ႀကီးရခိုင္။ the family seat in Norfolk. ၆။ (က) ( fml ) တင္ပါး။ တင္ပါးဆံု။ ေခြးဆြဲ။ ဖ႐ံုဆြဲ။ (ခ) ေဘာင္းဘီစသည္ ေခြးဆြဲ ေနရာ။ a hole in the seat of his trousers. ေဘာင္းဘီဖင္ေပါက္။ See also THE HOT SEAT v ၁။ ( fml ) (esp passive) ထိုင္သည္။ Please be/remain seated, ladies and gentlemen. ❍ a statue of a woman seated on a horse ❍ She seated herself on the sofa/at the piano. ❍ Seat the boy next to his brother. ၂။ ထိုင္စရာေနရာ၊ ထိုင္ခံုရိွသည္။ a hall that seats 500 (people). လူ ၅၀၀-စာ ခန္းမႀကီး။ See also deep-seated ❏ by the seat of one's pants [ IDM ] (ပညာသိမဟုတ္) သဘာဝအသိႏွင့္/ျဖင့္။ ❏ seat-belt (also safety-belt ) n ထိုင္ခံုခါးပတ္။ Fasten your seat-belts! ❍ The seat-belt sign is on. ❍ CAR ❏ -seater (forming compound ns and adjs ) (ယာဥ္၊ ေနရာ) …ေယာက္စီး၊ …ေယာက္စာ။ a ten-seater minibus ❍ a thousand-seater stadium ❍ a fast little two-seater (ie car) ❍ an all-seater stadium (ie where everyone has a seat). ❏ seating n [U] ထိုင္စရာ။ ထိုင္ခံု။ rearrange the seating ❍ a hall with a seating capacity of 500.

Examples

1. Some of the vans have leather seats.
2. The seat next to me was empty.
3. He was in the back seat of the car when the accident happened.
4. The broken seat of the chair was replaced.
5. I managed to get us the best seats in the theatre.
6. We tried to get on the Friday flight
7. but there were no seats left.
8. [seat in] : The Green Party won four seats in the new parliament.
9. [seat on] : A permanent seat on the UN Security Council
10. [seat of] : The Hague is the seat of the Dutch Government.
11. She spoke of Oxford
12. that ancient seat of learning.
13. The Duke’s family seat is at Alnwick Castle in Northumberland.
14. Sandy stood up and dusted off the seat of his shorts.