sitting

sustantivo

1. 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. 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. 3

   A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.

4. 4

   The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.

5. 5

   A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).

6. 6

   The incubation of eggs by a bird.

7. 7

   A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

   we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs

8. 8

   An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

   I read it in two sittings.

verbo

1. 1

   También una forma de sitpresent participle and gerund of sit

adjetivo

1. 1

   Executed from a sitting position.

2. 2

   Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

   It is an iron rule of French politics that sitting presidents are detested.

3. 3

   Of a bird, incubating eggs.

Formas

plural

sittings