different between sext vs seat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?kst/
• Homophone: sexed
• Rhymes: -?kst

Etymology 1

From Latin sexta (“sixth; sixth hour”)

Noun

sext (plural sexts)

1. (historical) Noon, reckoned as the sixth hour of daylight.

   Synonyms: midday, noontide; see also Thesaurus:midday

2. (Roman Catholicism) The service appointed for this hour.
3. (music) A sixth: an interval of six diatonic degrees.
4. (music, obsolete) An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.

Hypernyms

• (both): hour, canonical hour
• (service): liturgy of the hours, little hours

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of sex +? text. As a verb, a back-formation from earlier sexting, formed from the noun.

Noun

sext (plural sexts)

1. An electronic message involving sexual language or images.
   • 2001 November 22, Baltimore Sun, p. 37:

     Embarrassed by a ‘Sext’ Message

Verb

sext (third-person singular simple present sexts, present participle sexting, simple past and past participle sexted)

1. (intransitive and transitive) To send a sext.
   • 2007 October 19, Cameron Millar, "Text Mad Brits Top League for Saucy Messages" in the Daily Star, p. 21 (caption):

     Rebecca Loos claimed she was 'sexted' by Beckham

   • 2009 March 1, Wendyl Nissen, "Sexts Suk... Go 4 a Real D8" in the New Zealand Herald, p. 35:

     ...trying to get into the swing of things by texting my husband (I was a little tipsy, I will admit): "How do you sext someone?" hoping to engage in the latest trend. All I got was, "What!" in reply.

   • 2010 October 16, Victoria Gehman, "Sex Suspended, Celibacy Supreme" in the Albany Student Press:

     The next day, Greg sexted me a few pictures of his package.

   • 2013, Olukemi Lawani, First Steps to Flight, p. 3:

     We would talk on the phone for hours and then text and sext the rest of the day.

Synonyms

• sex-text

Derived terms

• sexter
• sextual
• sextually

References

• "sext, n.¹", "n.²", "v.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin sextus (“sixth”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?sest/

Adjective

sext (feminine sexta, masculine plural sexts or sextos, feminine plural sextes)

1. sixth

Usage notes

For most fractional numbers, the ordinal number is used to indicate the denominator of the fraction. The ordinal sext is used to indicate this denominator just as the corresponding English ordinal would be. Exceptions to this rule include mig (“half”), terç (“third”), quarter (“quarter”), milionèsim (“millionth”), bilionèsim (“billionth”), ....

The feminine form of the ordinal is usually used as the collective noun for a set of like objects of that size. Exceptions to the usual rule include parell (“set of 2”), qüern (“set of 4”), centenar (“set of 100”), grossa (“set of 144”), miler (“set of 1000”), and milenar (“1000”).

Synonyms

• sisè

Noun

sext m (plural sexts or sextos)

1. sixth

Further reading

• “sext” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Middle English

Adjective

sext

1. Alternative form of sixte

Noun

sext

1. Alternative form of sixte

Pennsylvania German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k?st/

Etymology

Compare German sechste, Dutch zesde, English sixth.

Adjective

sext

1. sixth

Ordinal number

sext

1. sixth

English

Etymology

From Middle English sete, from Old English s?te and Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *s?tij? (“seat”); compare Old English set (“seat”). Compare also Old High German gisazi (German Gesäß), Middle Dutch gesaete. Sense of "residence, abode, established place" likely derived from cognate Old English s?te (“house”), related to Old High German s?za (“sedan, seat, domicile”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Noun

seat (plural seats)

1. Something to be sat upon.
   1. A place in which to sit.
   2. The horizontal portion of a chair or other furniture designed for sitting.

   3. A piece of furniture made for sitting; e.g. a chair, stool or bench; any improvised place for sitting.
      1. (aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.

   4. The part of an object or individual (usually the buttocks) directly involved in sitting.

   5. The part of a piece of clothing (usually pants or trousers) covering the buttocks.
   6. (engineering) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests.

2. A location or site.
   1. (figuratively) A membership in an organization, particularly a representative body.

   2. The location of a governing body.
   3. (certain Commonwealth countries) An electoral district, especially for a national legislature.
   4. A temporary residence, such as a country home or a hunting lodge.
      • 1806, William Cobbett, The Parliamentary History of England

        A man of fortune, who lives in London, may, in plays, operas, routs, assemblies, French cookery, French sauces, and French wines, spend as much yearly, as he could do, were he to live in the most hospitable manner at his seat in the country.

   5. The place occupied by anything, or where any person, thing or quality is situated or resides; a site.

      • Where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is.

      • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Building

        He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison.

      • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvii:

        I stopped taking the sweets and condiments I had got from home. The mind having taken a different turn, the fondness for condiments wore away, and I now relished the boiled spinach which in Richmond tasted insipid, cooked without condiments. Many such experiments taught me that the real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.

3. The starting point of a fire.
4. Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
   • 1876, George Eliot, Daniel Deronda Chapter 3

     She had so good a seat and hand she might be trusted with any mount.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

seat (third-person singular simple present seats, present participle seating, simple past and past participle seated)

1. (transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.

2. (transitive) To provide with places to sit.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies

     The guests were no sooner seated but they entered into a warm debate.

   • 1887, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, History of Woman Suffrage

     He used to seat you on the piano and then, with vehement gestures and pirouettings, would argue the case. Not one word of the speech did you understand.

3. (transitive) To request or direct one or more persons to sit.

4. (transitive, legislature) To recognize the standing of a person or persons by providing them with one or more seats which would allow them to participate fully in a meeting or session.

5. (transitive) To assign the seats of.

6. (transitive) To cause to occupy a post, site, or situation; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
   • c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War

     They had seated themselves in Nova Guiana.

7. (obsolete, intransitive) To rest; to lie down.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

8. To settle; to plant with inhabitants.
   • 1747, William Stith, The History of the First Discovery and Settlement of Virginia

     The Plantations, for the most Part, are high and pleasantly seated

9. To put a seat or bottom in.

Translations

See also

• seat of learning
• seat of wisdom
• seat of honor
• sedentary
• see
• sit

Anagrams

• AEST, ESTA, East, TEAs, east, eats, etas, sate, saté, seta, tase, teas

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) set
• (Sursilvan) siat

Etymology

From Latin septem, from Proto-Indo-European *sept??.

Number

seat

1. (Sutsilvan) seven