sitting

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//ˈsɪtɪŋ//

A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

noun

1
A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
2
A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
"It's not always easy to get him, and of course a small fee, a guinea I think, is usual, but if you wanted a sitting I could work it." "You think him genuine?" Atkinson shrugged his shoulders.
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, and not period).
6
The incubation of eggs by a bird.
7
A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
8
An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
I read it in two sittings.

Etymology

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”).

verb

1
Also a form of sitpresent participle and gerund of sit

Etymology

From Middle English sittinge, sittynge, variant of sittinde, sittende, sittande, from Old English sittende (“sitting”), from Proto-Germanic *sitjandz (“sitting”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian sittend (“sitting”), Dutch zittend (“sitting”), German sitzend (“sitting”), Swedish sittande (“sitting”), Icelandic sitjandi (“sitting”).

adjective

1
Executed from a sitting position.
2
Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
It is an iron rule of French politics that sitting presidents are detested.
3
Of a bird, incubating eggs.

Forms

plural: sittings

site · The place where anything is fixed; situation; local position sitter · Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.Sitter · A surname.

sitting · A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

situation · The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state…Siu · A surname.six · A numerical value equal to 6; the number following five and…

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