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Sitting   /sˈɪtɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Sit  v. t.  (past sat, archaic sate; past part. sat, obs. sitten; pres. part. sitting)  
1.
To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well. "Hardly the muse can sit the headstrong horse."
2.
To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; used reflexively. "They sat them down to weep." "Sit you down, father; rest you."
3.
To suit (well or ill); to become. (Obs. or R.)


Sit  v. i.  (past sat, archaic sate; past part. sat, obs. sitten; pres. part. sitting)  
1.
To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground. "And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat." "I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner."
2.
To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
3.
To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition. "And Moses said to... the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?" "Like a demigod here sit I in the sky."
4.
To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him. "The calamity sits heavy on us."
5.
To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sits well or ill. "This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think."
6.
To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; used impersonally. (Obs.)
7.
To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate. "As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not."
8.
To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction. "Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits." "Sits the wind in that quarter?"
9.
To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.
10.
To hold a session; to be in session for official business; said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.
11.
To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
To sit at, to rest under; to be subject to. (Obs.) "A farmer can not husband his ground so well if he sit at a great rent".
To sit at meat or To sit at table, to be at table for eating.
To sit down.
(a)
To place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down when tired.
(b)
To begin a siege; as, the enemy sat down before the town.
(c)
To settle; to fix a permanent abode.
(d)
To rest; to cease as satisfied. "Here we can not sit down, but still proceed in our search."
To sit for a fellowship, to offer one's self for examination with a view to obtaining a fellowship. (Eng. Univ.)
To sit out.
(a)
To be without engagement or employment. (Obs.)
(b)
To outstay.
(c)
to refrain from participating in (an activity such as a dance or hand at cards); used especially after one has recently participated in an earlier such activity. The one sitting out does not necessarily have to sit during the activity foregone.
To sit under, to be under the instruction or ministrations of; as, to sit under a preacher; to sit under good preaching.
To sit up, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from sleep; to sit with the body upright; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person. "He that was dead sat up, and began to speak."


noun
Sitting  n.  
1.
The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
2.
A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
3.
The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
4.
The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission. "The sitting closed in great agitation."
5.
The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc. "For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting."
6.
A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls. "The male bird... amuses her (the female) with his songs during the whole time of her sitting."
Sitting room, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.


adjective
Sitting  adj.  Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.





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"Sitting" Quotes from Famous Books



... this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and, when she next peeped out, the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into ...
— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson • Lewis Carroll
... to my rooms, horribly entangled in a mystery that is little to my liking. I have been sitting here in my study for some time, going over it again and again. There have been many footsteps on the stairs, many ...
— The Agony Column • Earl Derr Biggers
... spoons, and so on, each man carrying a supply of some one article for the table. With the same military precision that had marked all their movements, six black hands were stretched at the same instant over the shoulders of the sitting passengers, and six articles were noiselessly dropped on the table; then, with a similar motion, the six black hands went back to their respective owners, as the procession moved along behind the guests, the white-sleeved arms and ...
— The Boy Settlers - A Story of Early Times in Kansas • Noah Brooks
... miserable fate. Here, it seemed that a group had, while sufficient strength yet remained, huddled themselves together, as if to keep up the vital warmth of which death so slowly and yet so surely was depriving them; a little farther on was a figure in a sitting posture, with two infants still clasped in its bony arms; and then again the eye would fall upon some solitary figure with outstretched limbs, as if courting that death which on the instant responded to the call. Involuntarily my thoughts recurred to Dante's ...
— A Peep into Toorkisthhan • Rollo Burslem
... said something, pleaded something; but he turned abruptly to the table, and sitting down wrote a few lines on a piece of paper. Then he rang his bell, while I stood ...
— Under the Red Robe • Stanley Weyman


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