Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or position of one that sits.
- noun A period during which one is seated and occupied with a single activity, such as posing for a portrait or reading a book.
- noun A session or term, as of a legislature or court.
- noun An act, condition, or period of brooding on eggs by a bird; incubation.
- noun The number of eggs under a brooding bird; a clutch.
- adjective Incubating a nest of eggs.
- adjective Occupying an official position; incumbent.
- adjective Of or for sitting.
- adjective Done or executed while sitting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characteristic of a sitter: as, a sitting posture.
- In bot, sessile—that is, without petiole, peduncle, or pedicel, etc.
- Befitting; suitable; becoming.
- noun A meeting of a body for the discussion or transaction of business; an official session.
- noun The interval during which, at any one time, one sits; specifically, such a period during which one sits for an artist to take a portrait, model a bust, etc.; hence, generally, any one limited portion of time.
- noun An incubation; a brooding, as of a hen upon eggs; also, the time for brooding, or during which a bird broods.
- noun The number of eggs on which a bird sits during a single hatching; a clutch.
- noun The place where one sits; a seat; specifically, a space sufficient for one person in a pew of a church, or the right to such a seat.
- noun Settlement; place of abode; seat.
- noun In English law, the part of the year in which judicial business is transacted. See
Easter term , under Easter, and Trinity term, Michaelmas term, and Hilary term, under termination - noun In the Society of Friends, an occasion of family worship, especially when a minister is a guest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
- noun The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
- noun A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc..
- noun The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
- noun The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session.
- noun The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
- noun A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.
- noun an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
period during which one isseated for a specific purpose - noun a
legislative session - noun the act (of a bird) of
incubating eggs ; theclutch of eggs under abrooding bird - verb Present participle of
sit . - adjective executed from a sitting position
- adjective
occupying a specificofficial orlegal position;incumbent
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not moving and therefore easy to attack
- adjective (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks
- noun (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait)
- noun a meeting of spiritualists
- noun a session as of a legislature or court
- noun the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position
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Examples
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There's only one thing worse than sitting through THE SWARM..sitting through the extended cut of THE SWARM!
Bees! Bees! Millions of Bees! Jaime J. Weinman 2008
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For example, in ˜Socrates is sitting,™ ˜sitting™ indicates Socrates 'position.
Medieval Theories of the Categories Gracia, Jorge 2006
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He says he's fighting his sex sting guilty plea, and he says he's not going to spend the rest of his term sitting around, tapping his feet.
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He says he's fighting his sex sting guilty plea, and he says he's not going to spend the rest of his term sitting around, tapping his feet.
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COOPER: Walter, you used the term sitting ducks in describing U.S. troops.
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Now we have Gadhafi however you spell his name sitting in a freezer like Frankie Carbone at the end of Goodfellas.
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If she's attending a more sedentary event, she'll pull out what she calls her "sitting shoes," which are more embellished and have a higher heel.
Hitting the Right Note for a Night on the Town Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan 2012
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We all have to do what we call sitting in traffic.
Think Progress » Caught Red-Handed: Stevens Blocked Creation of Federal Spending Database 2006
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Of course, a geisha never really "sits" while wearing kimono; what we call sitting is probably what other people would call kneeling.
Memoirs of a Geisha Golden, Arthur, 1957- 1997
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His own house was very quiet; he could not hear his wife's voice, nor the sound of Nina's footsteps in the big room, opening on the verandah, which he called his sitting-room, whenever, in the company of white men, he wished to assert his claims to the commonplace decencies of civilisation.
Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Joseph Conrad 1890
brobbins commented on the word sitting
eternal, steady
July 23, 2009