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sitting
[ sit-ing ]
noun
- the act of a person or thing that sits.
- a period of remaining seated, as in posing for a portrait or reading a book.
- the space on or in which one sits, as in a church.
- a brooding, as of a hen upon eggs; incubation.
- the number of eggs on which a bird sits during a single hatching; clutch.
- a session, as of a court or legislature.
- the time or space allotted to the serving of a meal to a group, as aboard a ship.
adjective
- (of a bird) occupying a nest of eggs for hatching.
- of, for, or suited to sitting:
a sitting area in the lobby.
- holding an official position or office; occupying an appointed or elected seat; incumbent:
a sitting pontiff.
- in session or at work; active:
a sitting legislature.
sitting
/ ˈɪɪŋ /
noun
- a continuous period of being seated
I read his novel at one sitting
- such a period in a restaurant, canteen, etc, where space and other facilities are limited
dinner will be served in two sittings
- the act or period of posing for one's portrait to be painted, carved, etc
- a meeting, esp of an official body, to conduct business
- the incubation period of a bird's eggs during which the mother sits on them to keep them warm
adjective
- in office
a sitting Member of Parliament
- (of a hen) brooding eggs
- seated
in a sitting position
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Idioms and Phrases
- sitting pretty, in an auspicious position:
He's been sitting pretty since he got that new job.
Example Sentences
"After we were arrested, many freelance journalists could not shoot the next day. Everyone was afraid," he told us, sitting on his couch at home with his wife Hazal by his side.
She said the government needed to stop sitting on its hands and called for the Treasury to restructure the council's debts.
It’s fun to read, for sure, but there’s also a yawning pit of despair sitting beneath the narrator’s alternating tones of glib humor and seething rage.
"We were sitting in my living room, reading the Bible," she said, and spontaneously decided to "hit record and started talking."
Bournemouth's form doesn't suggest they will take the points either, but I am not sitting on the fence like I expect you lot will.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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