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Sit   /sɪt/   Listen
Sit

verb
(past sat; past part. sat; pres. part. sitting)
1.
Be seated.  Synonym: sit down.  Antonyms: lie, stand.
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.  Antonym: arise.
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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"Sit" Quotes from Famous Books



... been such a model of virtue and wisdom that I can afford to sit in judgment on you. I've learned a few things myself this year and I am not so cock sure in my views as I was by a long shot. Anyway you have more than made up by what you have done since and what you are going to do over there. Let's forget ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper
... you to talk," said the willow-tree. "I should like to see you in my place. All my crown is gone, all the big branches and the little twigs, on which the next year's buds used to sit so nicely, each in its axil. But I still have all my roots, all those which I procured when I had a big household and many to provide for. Now the ice on the ground is melting and the sun shining and the roots are sucking and sucking. All the sap is ...
— The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories • Carl Ewald
... be your father—if you had your home, your husband, your health, your garden, and your children, wouldn't you be a far happier woman than—than Lydia say, or Florence Frost, or all the other girls who sit about this town waiting for a man with ...
— Martie the Unconquered • Kathleen Norris
... absent-mindedness and irritability. The latter failing, he told me, would at times take complete control of him: for instance, he had to leave a train before his journey was completed, as he felt it impossible to sit in the carriage and look at the alarm bell without pulling it. I have watched him seated in the smoking-room of the club we both attended, in which the star-light in the centre of the ceiling was shaded by a rather primitive ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
... thou still, thou mass of breathing stone, (Thy giant limbs to night and chaos hurled) Still sit as on the fragment ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller


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