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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



... Abbe Gerard had been an eminently successful one—successful in every way; and even he himself was forced to acknowledge it to be so as he reviewed his past life, sitting by a blazing fire in his comfortable apartment in the Rue Miromeuil previous to dressing for the Duc de Frontignan's dinner-party. Born of poor parents in the south of France, entering the priesthood at an early age, having received but a meagre education, and that chiefly confined to a superficial ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various
... message through twice, sitting on his horse without a move, his face a perfect blank. Then he thrust it into his pocket and turned once ...
— The Boy Allies with the Cossacks - Or, A Wild Dash over the Carpathians • Clair W. Hayes
... bare little box," she replied with a laugh. "It's like a cell. A friend of ours who has the anti-germ fad insisted on it. But my sitting-room isn't so bad." ...
— The Deluge • David Graham Phillips
... the door, a man sitting near it stopped talking, gazed rudely as he passed, and then leaned across the table and smiled and murmured to his companion. The subject of his jest felt their four ...
— The Grandissimes • George Washington Cable
... tumult of the tempest, the ensign's voice encouraged them. Whistler, sitting three yards away, could not see the officer ...
— Navy Boys Behind the Big Guns - Sinking the German U-Boats • Halsey Davidson


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