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seat·ing

(sē′tĭng)

a. The act of providing or furnishing with a seat or seats.

b. The seats so provided or furnished: seating for 500.

2. The arrangement of seats in a room, auditorium, or banquet hall: a theater that offers semicircular seating.

3. The member or part on or within which another part is seated.

4. Material for upholstering seats.

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seating

(ˈsiːtɪŋ)

1. the act of providing with a seat or seats

a. the provision of seats, as in a theatre, cinema, etc

b. (as modifier): seating arrangements.

3. material used for covering or making seats

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seat•ing

(ˈsi tɪŋ)

n.

1. an act or instance of providing with seats.

2. an arrangement of seats.

3. material for seats.

[1590–1600]

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Noun	1.	seating - an area that includes places where several people can sit; "there is seating for 40 students in this classroom" seating area, seating room, seats dress circle, circle - a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra; "they had excellent seats in the dress circle" 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 seat - furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests" 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 elbow room, room, way - space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around"
	2.	seating - the service of ushering people to their seats service - an act of help or assistance; "he did them a service"

seating

noun

1. accommodation, room, places, seats, chairs seating for over eighty thousand spectators

2. arrangement of seats, accommodation, places, seats She made a mental note to check the seating.

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Translations

تَرْتيب الجُلوس

zasedací pořádek

siddeplads

Bestuhlung

leültetésültetés

sætaskipan

provvedere di posti a sedere

bordplassering sitteplasser

zasadací poriadok

oturacak yeroturmayerleştirme

安排座位

seating

[ˈsiːtɪŋ]

A. N → asientos mpl

B. CPD seating accommodation N → plazas fpl, asientos mpl
seating arrangements NPL = seating plan seating capacity N → número m de asientos, cabida f
seating plan N → disposición f de los asientos

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

seating

[ˈsiːtɪŋ] n

(= seats) → places fpl assises

(= seating arrangements) → plan m de tableseating arrangements npl → plan m de table
He organised the seating arrangements for 3,000 guests → Il a organisé le plan de table pour 3000 invités.
What are the seating arrangements? → Où va-t-on faire asseoir les gens?seating capacity n → capacité f d'accueil
The stadium has a seating capacity of 50,000 → Le stade a une capacité d'accueil de 50 000 places assises.seating plan n (at dinner) → plan m de table

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

seating

n → Sitzgelegenheiten pl, → Sitzplätze pl; seating room → Platz m → zum Sitzen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

seating

[ˈsiːtɪŋ] n → posti mpl a sedere

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

seat

(siːt) noun

1. something for sitting on. Are there enough seats for everyone?

2. the part of a chair etc on which the body sits. This chair-seat is broken.

3. (the part of a garment covering) the buttocks. I've got a sore seat after all that horse riding; a hole in the seat of his trousers.

4. a place in which a person has a right to sit. two seats for the play; a seat in Parliament; a seat on the board of the company.

5. a place that is the centre of some activity etc. Universities are seats of learning.

verb

1. to cause to sit down. I seated him in the armchair.

2. to have seats for. Our table seats eight.

-seater

having seats for. The bus is a thirty-seater.

ˈseating noun

the supply or arrangement of seats. She arranged the seating for the lecture.

seat belt

in a car, aeroplane etc, a safety-belt which will hold a person in his seat in an accident etc.

take a seat

to sit down. Please take a seat!

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"That sounds like a square meal," remarked the King, seating himself opposite her; "but perhaps it wasn't a square piano.

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Seating myself near the window, a little back from the circle, I called Arthur to me, and he and I and Sancho amused ourselves very pleasantly together, while the two young ladies baited his mother with small talk, and Fergus sat opposite with his legs crossed and his hands in his breeches-pockets, leaning back in his chair, and staring now up at the ceiling, now straight forward at his hostess (in a manner that made me strongly inclined to kick him out of the room), now whistling sotto voce to himself a snatch of a favourite air, now interrupting the conversation, or filling up a pause (as the case might be) with some most impertinent question or remark.

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APEJ is also expected to emerge as the fastest growing automotive seats market owing to the presence of numerous leading automotive seating manufacturers in the region coupled with 90% of the modern-day urbanization taking place in the region.

Global Automotive Seats Market to Rear Excessive Growth During 2017 - 2022

Summary: APEJ is also expected to emerge as the fastest growing automotive seats market owing to the presence of numerous leading automotive seating manufacturers in the region coupled with 90% of the modern-day urbanization taking place in the region.

Automotive Seats Market to Rear Excessive Growth During 2017 - 2022

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