sitting
Signification (Anglais)
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- A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
- A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
- The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
- Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
Concepts
séance
assis
session
service
séance de pose
en possession des lieux
perche
asseoir
en exercice
réunion
Fréquence
Coupé comme
sit‧ting
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈsɪtɪŋ/
Étymologie (Anglais)
From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with Dutch zitting (“a sitting, session”), German Sitzung (“a sitting, session”), Swedish sittning (“a sitting, session”).
Associé à néerlandais
zitting
Associé à allemand
Sitzung
Associé à néerlandais
zittend
Associé à allemand
sitzend
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Nouveau
sit
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- To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
- To move oneself into such a position.
- To occupy a given position.
- To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
- To be a member of a deliberative body.
- Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
- To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
- To be adjusted; to fit.
- To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
- To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
- To accommodate in seats; to seat.
- To babysit.
- To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
- To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
- To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
- To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
- (obsolete) To keep one's seat when faced with (a blow, attack); to endure, to put up with.
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