RESEAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reseat mean? 

• RESEAT (verb)
  The verb RESEAT has 3 senses:

1. provide with a new seat

2. provide with new seats

3. show to a different seat

  Familiarity information: RESEAT used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESEAT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they reseat    ... he / she / it reseats   
Past simple: reseated   
Past participle: reseated   
-ing form: reseating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with a new seat

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

reseat the old broken chair

Hypernyms (to "reseat" is one way to...):

seat (put a seat on a chair)

Domain category:

cabinetry; cabinetwork (the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with new seats

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Context example:

reseat Carnegie Hall

Hypernyms (to "reseat" is one way to...):

seat (provide with seats)

Domain category:

architecture (the profession of designing buildings and environments with consideration for their esthetic effect)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Show to a different seat

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

The usher insisted on reseating us

Hypernyms (to "reseat" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

 Context examples 

Then he reseated himself in his chair and looked them over with a gleam of satisfaction in his eyes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I hope I shall remember, in future," said Lady Russell, as soon as they were reseated in the carriage, "not to call at Uppercross in the Christmas holidays."

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Having introduced him, however, and being all reseated, the terrors that occurred of what this visit might lead to were overpowering, and she fancied herself on the point of fainting away.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Lucy directly drew her work table near her and reseated herself with an alacrity and cheerfulness which seemed to infer that she could taste no greater delight than in making a filigree basket for a spoilt child.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“We have more to tell you than you have for us,” said Phelps, reseating himself upon the couch.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)