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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an area that includes places where several people can sit;
- Example: "there is seating for 40 students in this classroom"
[syn: seating, seats, seating room, seating area]

2. the service of ushering people to their seats;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Seat \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. [1913 Webster] The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle. [1913 Webster] Thus high . . . is King Richard seated. --Shak. [1913 Webster] They had seated themselves in New Guiana. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. To fix; to set firm. [1913 Webster] From their foundations, loosening to and fro, They plucked the seated hills. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 5. To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country. [Obs.] --W. Stith. [1913 Webster] 6. To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Seating \Seat"ing\ (s[=e]t"[i^]ng), n. 1. The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience. [1913 Webster] 2. The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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