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Sitting   /sˈɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Sitting

noun
1.
(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait).  Synonym: posing.
2.
The act of assuming or maintaining a seated position.
3.
A meeting of spiritualists.  Synonyms: seance, session.
4.
A session as of a legislature or court.
adjective
1.
(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks.  Synonym: seated.  "The audience remained seated"
2.
Not moving and therefore easy to attack.


Sit

verb
(past sat; past part. sat; pres. part. sitting)
1.
Be seated.  Synonym: sit down.
2.
Be around, often idly or without specific purpose.  Synonym: sit around.  "We sat around chatting for another hour"
3.
Take a seat.  Synonym: sit down.
4.
Be in session.
5.
Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.  Synonyms: model, pose, posture.
6.
Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions.  Synonym: ride.  "Did you ever ride a camel?" , "The girl liked to drive the young mare"
7.
Be located or situated somewhere.
8.
Work or act as a baby-sitter.  Synonym: baby-sit.
9.
Show to a seat; assign a seat for.  Synonyms: seat, sit down.
10.
Serve in a specific professional capacity.  "She sat on the jury"



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"Sitting" Quotes from Famous Books



... ornamented with several stained glass windows, and has an inlaid wooden canopy, but there is nothing startling nor remarkable about the work. Beneath the windows there is painted in large, letters the word "Emmanuel;" but the position of it is very inconvenient. People sitting above may see the name fairly; but many below have a difficulty in grasping it, and those sitting in the centre will never be able to get hold of more letters than those which makeup the mild name of "Emma." Names- -particularly ...
— Our Churches and Chapels • Atticus
... the contemplative life can be more continuous, even though we cannot maintain our contemplation at its highest pitch; thus Mary, who is typical of the contemplative life, is depicted as sitting ...
— On Prayer and The Contemplative Life • St. Thomas Aquinas
... Cobham woods it is not a long walk to the little village of Shorne, where Dickens was fond of sitting on a hot summer afternoon in its pretty, shaded churchyard. This is believed to be the spot which he has described in Pickwick as "one of the most peaceful and secluded churchyards in Kent, where wild flowers mingle with ...
— Dickens-Land • J. A. Nicklin
... great lord of these worlds, sees as if he were near. If a man stands or walks or hides, if he goes to lie down or to get up, what two people sitting together whisper to each other, King Varuna knows it, he is there as the third.[257] This earth too belongs to Varuna, the King, and this wide sky with its ends far apart. The two seas (the sky and the ocean) are Varuna's loins; he is also contained in this ...
— India: What can it teach us? - A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge • F. Max Mueller
... part of his wife that he did not settle down in Rome. Passing straight through the atrium, where he was respectfully greeted by the servants and slaves, Pollio passed into the tablinum, where his uncle was sitting writing. ...
— Beric the Briton - A Story of the Roman Invasion • G. A. Henty


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