sitting

Senso

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.

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Con trattino come

sit‧ting

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈsɪtɪŋ/

Etimologia

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”).

Cognato con olandese

zitting

Cognato con tedesco

Sitzung

Cognato con olandese

zittend

Cognato con tedesco

sitzend

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Nuovo

sit

1. To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
2. To move oneself into such a position.
3. To occupy a given position.
4. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
5. To be a member of a deliberative body.
6. Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
7. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
8. To be adjusted; to fit.
9. To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
10. To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
11. To accommodate in seats; to seat.
12. To babysit.
13. To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
14. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
15. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
16. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
17. (obsolete) To keep one's seat when faced with (a blow, attack); to endure, to put up with.