reseated; reseating; reseats
: to seat (someone or something) again: such as
a
: to cause or help (someone) to be seated again
I stood gazing at him awhile … and then reseated myself at my desk.—
Herman Melville
Herman Melville… the standard company procedure is, whenever one passenger complains about another, to either reseat one of the passengers [=move one of the passengers to a different seat] or investigate further.—Chris Matyszczyk
Chris Matyszczyk
b
: to fit (something, such as a part of a machine) back into or on a seat (see seat entry 1 sense 5b)
The customer reseated the cartridges and the printer started working.—Alex Cranz
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Within hours of lawmakers vacating Tennessee State University's board, Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed the legislation into law and issued his appointments to reseat a new board.
—Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 28 Mar. 2024
Flight attendants will usually try to reseat you, but Carr acknowledged that can be difficult when a flight is very full.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
The malfunction that caused the propellant leak appears to have been with a valve that did not properly reseat during the propulsion system's initialization sequence.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
What is unusual is to have to do it several times—and reseat the wheel—only to realize that the disc itself is slightly warped.
—Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
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Melissa Brown, The Tennessean, 28 Mar. 2024
Flight attendants will usually try to reseat you, but Carr acknowledged that can be difficult when a flight is very full.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
The malfunction that caused the propellant leak appears to have been with a valve that did not properly reseat during the propulsion system's initialization sequence.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 22 Jan. 2024
What is unusual is to have to do it several times—and reseat the wheel—only to realize that the disc itself is slightly warped.
—Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2023
See all Example Sentences for reseat
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“Reseat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reseat. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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