sitting

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
2. A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
3. A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
4. The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
5. A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
6. The incubation of eggs by a bird.
7. A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
8. Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

Verb

present participle and gerund of sit

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Executed from a sitting position.
2. (not-comparable) Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

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sit

• Verb
• Noun
• Noun

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Sinónimos

session

seated

seat

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meeting

seance

gathering

sedentary

squatting

staying

incumbent

posing

sit

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in

in office

is

jumping

lecture

living

located

lying

officiating

perched

performance

residing

reunion

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séance

sessile

set

settled

sit-down

sitting down

situated

speech

stall

stay

tailored

trim

state of rest

act of sitting

abode

desk-bound

accustomed

acting

aground

bringing together

collection

conference

court

crouching

desk

Traducións

Sitzung

seduto

sesión

séance

assis

sentada

seduta

sitzend

sentado

zitting

session

reunião

tornata

sessão

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ˈsɪtɪŋ/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: sittyng

Relativo a neerlandés: zitting

Relativo a alemán: Sitzung

Relativo a sueco: sittning

Herdado de Middle English: sittinge

Herdado de Old English: sittende

Relativo a frisón occidental: sittend

Relativo a neerlandés: zittend

Relativo a alemán: sitzend

Relativo a sueco: sittande

Relativo a islandés: sitjandi

In summary

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”).