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SEATING

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The service of ushering people to their seats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("seating" is a kind of...):

service (an act of help or assistance)

Derivation:

seat (show to a seat; assign a seat for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An area that includes places where several people can sit

Example:

there is seating for 40 students in this classroom

Synonyms:

seating; seating area; seating room; seats

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("seating" is a kind of...):

elbow room; room; way (space for movement)

Meronyms (members of "seating"):

seat (furniture that is designed for sitting on)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seating"):

circle; dress circle (a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra)

orchestra (seating on the main floor in a theater)

parquet (seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle)

parquet circle; parterre (seating at the rear of the main floor (beneath the balconies))

ringside; ringside seat (first row of seating; has an unobstructed view of a boxing or wrestling ring)

stall (seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater)

tiered seat (seating that is arranged in sloping tiers so that spectators in the back can see over the heads of those in front)

Derivation:

seat (be able to seat)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

-ing form of the verb seat

Credits

 Context examples: 

Then seating herself with a gentleman on each side, she resumed the conversation which had engaged them before, and discussed the possibility of improvements with much animation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Dear me!" said Challenger, seating himself on the side of one of the canoes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Hola, mon gar.,” said Aylward, seating himself upon a boulder by his side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am so glad to see you! said she, seating herself between Elinor and Marianne, for it is so bad a day I was afraid you might not come, which would be a shocking thing, as we go away again tomorrow.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I should not have thought it the sort of play to be so easily filled up, with us, replied Edmund, turning away to the fire, where sat his mother, aunt, and Fanny, and seating himself with a look of great vexation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Then, seating himself opposite to me, he looked at me long and fixedly with his strange, twinkling, reckless eyes—eyes of a cold light blue, the color of a glacier lake.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)