sitting

Oznaczający

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.

Częstotliwość

Łączone jako

sit‧ting

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/ˈsɪtɪŋ/

Etymologia

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”).

Pokrewny z niderlandzki

zitting

Pokrewny z niemiecki

Sitzung

Pokrewny z niderlandzki

zittend

Pokrewny z niemiecki

sitzend

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Nowy

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.