seat·ing /ˈsitɪŋ/
 使就座,就座,座位數,座套


 Seat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Seated; p. pr. & vb. n. Seating.]
 1. To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
    The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.   --Arbuthnot.
 2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
    Thus high . . . is King Richard seated.   --Shak.
    They had seated themselves in New Guiana.   --Sir W. Raleigh.
 3. To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
 4. To fix; to set firm.
 From their foundations, loosening to and fro,
 They plucked the seated hills.   --Milton.
 5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.]
 6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.


 Seat·ing n.
 1. The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
 2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.

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 seating
      n 1: an area that includes seats for several people; "there is
           seating for 40 students in this classroom" [syn: seats,
            seating room, seating area]
      2: the service of ushering people to their seats