1 (place to sit) asiento; (m) (in cinema, theatre) butaca; (f) asiento; (m) (in car, plane, train, bus) asiento; (m) (on cycle) sillín; (m) asiento; (m) is this seat free? ¿está libre este asiento?; the back seat of the car el asiento trasero del coche; save me a seat guárdame un sitio asiento;or he used the log as a seat usaba el tronco de silla
It's always hard to see the screen properly from the front seats The most comfortable seats are at the front of the balcony Roger sat down carefully, using the edge of the crate as a seat His secretary reserved him a seat on a Continental Airlines flight He had been hoping for a window seat but the bus was full and he had to sit by the aisle
do have take a seathaveortake siéntese por favor; tome asiento por favor; (formal)
to take one's seattake sentarse; tomar asiento please take your seats for supper la cena está servida
to take a back seat mantenerse al margen his private life takes a back seat to the problems of the company su vida privada ocupa un segundo lugar después de los problemas de la compañía
2 [of chair, toilet] asiento; (m) the stool had a torn, red plastic seat There was a cushion on the seat of the chair She was always complaining that her husband left the seat up
3 (ticket) (Teat) (Cine) (Dep) localidad; (f) entrada; (f) (for plane, train, bus) plaza; (f) we need two seats on the first available flight necesitamos dos plazas en el primer vuelo disponible; are there any seats left? (Teat) (Cine) (Dep) ¿quedan localidades entradas?;or (on plane) ¿quedan plazas?
there were no seats left I rang the theatre to see if I could get seats for the show to book reserve a seat
4 (Pol) (in parliament) escaño; (m) curul; (f) (Col) (constituency) circunscripción electoral; (f) to [keep]/[lose] one's seat a majority of 50 seats to [win]/[lose] a seat to take one's seat in the (House of) Commons
she kept/lost her seat in the election retuvo/perdió su escaño en las elecciones
it's a [safe] Labour seat Pramila was finally selected to stand for Birmingham Ladywood. It was to be a very hard initiation, as they [won] 95 seats
5 (on board, committee) puesto; (m) to have a seat on the board ser miembro de la junta directiva
He has been unsuccessful in his attempt to win a seat on the board of the company
6 [of trousers] fondillos; (m) Her jeans had a gaping hole in the seat There was a hole in the seat of his jeans
to do sth by the seat of one's pants hacer algo guiado por el instinto Pilots in the early days of aviation flew "by the seat of their pants". it seemed to Bunbury that his companion in crime was almost literally driving by the seat of his pants and adlibbing his arguments off the top of his head I escaped by the seat of my pants
7 (centre) [of government] sede; (f) [of family] residencia; (f) casa solariega; (f) Dungavel House, the county seat of the Duke of Hamilton the neighboring town (the present county seat) was named Tribune in honor of the New York paper In the eleventh century the seat of government shifted to London from Winchester
family seat casa solariega; (f)
the sixth Earl of Stradbroke arrived in a blaze of publicity to claim his family seat of Henham in Suffolk Alnwick Castle, the Duke's family seat in Northumberland seat of justice
seat of learning (literary) centro de estudios; (m) templo del saber; (m) (literary)
Sunderland was a seat of learning in the 7th century No one has ever heard of an owl converting a place like this into a residence and a famous seat of learning seat of power
8 (source) [of infection, problem] foco; (m) we must find out whether it is your emotions that are the seat of the problem The jaw had been fractured some years before and this fracture had become the seat of the infection. The puffer fish is poisonous and the seat of the venom may be its head
9 (buttocks) (euphemistic) trasero; (informal) (m) posaderas; (informal) (f) She tripped over and landed on her seat
10 [of rider] Stiffness in this area can wreck a good seat and is directly transmitted to the horse in riding
to have a good seat montar bien
Jennifer Balcombe shone in the Sheepgate Young Rider Derby, showing a good seat and a tactful effectiveness
to keep one's seat mantenerse sobre el caballo; to lose one's seat caer del caballo
