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Seat vs. Sit

Seat

/siːt/

A place or arrangement where someone can sit, often a chair or similar furniture.

Examples:

Can I sit in that seat?The theater has comfortable seats.

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This word has no antonyms

Sit

/sɪt/

To rest with the weight supported by one's buttocks and thighs, often on a chair

Examples:

Please sit on the chair.Let's sit and talk in the garden.

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Ways to tell them apart:

Both words involve occupying a place, but involve different actions.
Seat usually refers to the object you sit on or a place designated for sitting.
Sit describes the action you perform when you lower your body onto a seat.
Remember, you take a seat or find a seat, but you sit down.
Think of seat as the destination and sit as the action to reach it.

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