sitting
Significado (Inglés)
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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.
Sinónimos
state of rest
act of sitting
desk-bound
bringing together
Frecuencia
Con guión como
sit‧ting
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ˈsɪtɪŋ/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
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”).
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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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