sit·ting (s t ng)n. 1. The act or position of one that sits. 2. A period during which one is seated and occupied with a single activity, such as posing for a portrait or reading a book. 3. A session, as of a legislature or court. 4. a. An act, condition, or period of brooding on eggs by a bird; incubation. b. The number of eggs under a brooding bird; a clutch. adj. 1. Incubating a nest of eggs: a sitting hen. 2. Occupying an official position; incumbent. 3. a. Of or for sitting: a sitting posture; a sitting area in a bus station. b. Done or executed while sitting. |
sitting [ˈsɪtɪŋ]
n
1. a continuous period of being seated I read his novel at one sitting
2. (Cookery) such a period in a restaurant, canteen, etc., where space and other facilities are limited dinner will be served in two sittings
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) the act or period of posing for one's portrait to be painted, carved, etc.
4. (Law / Parliamentary Procedure) a meeting, esp of an official body, to conduct business
5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the incubation period of a bird's eggs during which the mother sits on them to keep them warm
adj
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) in office a sitting Member of Parliament
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) (of a hen) brooding eggs
3. seated in a sitting position
Sitting the meeting together of a body of persons authorised to transact business; the number of eggs covered by a fowl in a single brood; a number of people taking a meal or sitting examination at a certain time.
Examples: sitting of a commission; of a judicial court; of eggs, 1854; of parliament, 1700.
Sitting
See Also: BEARING, IMMOBILITY
- Carefully lowered himself into the chair like someone entering a steaming hot bath —Andrew Kaplan
- Grandly sitting like a great rock —John Ashbery
- Hit his chair like a large rock —Rita Mae Brown
- Hunkered down on our haunches like Indians —Stephen King
- Just sits there … like a sick cat —Niven Busch
- Perched [on a stool] like a night owl —Jonathan Valin
- [Eight matrons] perched like pigeons around two identical card tables —Leigh Allison Wilson
- Sank back [into chair] … like a weighted diver into water —Richard Moran
The diver comparison is particularly apt within the context of Moran’s novel, Cold Sea Rising, with its many ocean scenes.
- Sank into a chair like a stone sinking into water —Lael Tucker Wertenbaker
- Sat as still as a bird sleeping on a limb —James Crumley
- Sat bolt upright, like a character in a work of cheap fiction —Peter De Vries
- Sat down heavily, like a farmer getting ready for Sunday dinner —Harvey Swados
- Sat like a bronze figure —William Brammer
The variations on sitting, standing or being “Still as a statue” are virtually limitless.
- Sat like a humped stone —Flannery O’Connor
- Sat like a lump of lead —Erich Maria Remarque
- Sat like granite —Walter Stone
- Sat like half-folded shirts, arms out of the way and knees close together —Mary Ward Brown
- Sat [silently] like someone who can’t remember the punch-line —William Mcllvanney
- Sat like some portent against the skies of the evening —E. M. Forster
- Sat like wood —Leslie Thomas
- Sat silent, motionless, like guests waiting to be welcomed —Helen Hudson
- Sat stiff as a cockroach, waiting to spring to life —Miles Gibson
- Sat stolidly, like an egg flattened on its bottom —David Ignatow
- Sat there like a mountain —Eudora Welty
- Sat up abruptly like a clockwork figure released by a spring —Joyce Cary
- Sat up and crossed his legs like a tailor. Like a tailor with no needle —Sterling Hayden
- Sat up as if she’d been shot from a cannon —Jonathan Valin
- Sat up —like a soldier at reveille —Jonathan Valin
- Sat up like Lazarus —Ray Bradbury
- She is dumped on the seat like a barrel of ashes —Malcolm Cowley
- Sitting [on the floor] like a sack —Ivan Turgenev
- Sit like a frog on a chopping block —John Ray’s Proverbs
- Sit like an umbrella —Bertold Brecht
- Sit like fixed candlesticks —William Shakespeare
- Stood there like a mannequin —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Sit silent and still as if they were in a photograph, slightly out of focus —George Garrett
- Sits like a pile of dough —Lee Smith
- Sits quietly with her hands in her lap, like a pregnant woman being driven to the delivery rooom —Alice McDermott
- Sits up high like a job applicant —Richard Ford
- Sitting like somebody found at Pompeii —William Mcllvanney
- Sitting motionless … like a mother who affects not to notice the rude or awkward conduct of her children —Marcel Proust
- (She straightened up,) sitting stiff and small, like a small mast against a storm —Elizabeth Spencer
- Sitting there pop-eyed as a ventriloquist’s dummy —Antonia White
- You sit with your head like a carving in space —Wallace Stevens
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Noun | 1. |  sitting - (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait); "he wanted his portrait painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting"movement, motility, motion, move - a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" photography, picture taking - the act of taking and printing photographs |
| 2. | sitting - the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position; "he read the mystery at one sitting" | |
| 3. |  sitting - a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor"spirit rapping, table rapping, table tapping - alleged form of communication with spirits of the dead table lifting, table tilting, table tipping, table turning - manipulation of a table during a seance; attributed to spirits get together, meeting - a small informal social gathering; "there was an informal meeting in my living room" | |
| 4. | sitting - a session as of a legislature or court session - a meeting for execution of a group's functions; "it was the opening session of the legislature" | |
| Adj. | 1. | sitting - (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks; "the seated Madonna"; "the audience remained seated" |
| 2. | sitting - not moving and therefore easy to attack; "a sitting target" |
sitting
noun
2. meeting, hearing, session, congress, consultation, get-together (informal) the recent emergency sittings
Translations
sitting [ˈsɪtɪŋ]
A. N
1. (= session) (Pol, Art etc) → sesión f; (in canteen) → turno m
second sitting for lunch → segundo turno de comedor
to eat it all at one sitting → comérselo todo de una sentada
to read a book in one sitting → leer un libro de un tirón
second sitting for lunch → segundo turno de comedor
to eat it all at one sitting → comérselo todo de una sentada
to read a book in one sitting → leer un libro de un tirón
2. (Zool) [of eggs] → nidada f
B. ADJ (also sitting down) → sentado
a sitting bird → una ave que está posada or inmóvil
a sitting hen → una gallina clueca
a sitting bird → una ave que está posada or inmóvil
a sitting hen → una gallina clueca
C. CPD sitting duck N (fig) → blanco m facilísimo
sitting member N → miembro mf actual or en funciones
sitting room N (= living room) → sala f, cuarto m de estar, salón m, living m (LAm); (= space) sitting and standing room → sitio m para sentarse y para estar de pie
sitting tenant N → inquilino/a m/f en posesión
sitting member N → miembro mf actual or en funciones
sitting room N (= living room) → sala f, cuarto m de estar, salón m, living m (LAm); (= space) sitting and standing room → sitio m para sentarse y para estar de pie
sitting tenant N → inquilino/a m/f en posesión
sitting [ˈsɪtɪŋ]
sitting
sitting:
adj → sitzend; bird → brütend; conference → tagend, in Sitzung; to be in a sitting position → aufsitzen; to get into a sitting position → sich aufsetzen; there is sitting room only → es gibt nur Sitzplätze
n (of committee, parliament, for portrait) → Sitzung f; they have two sittings for lunch → sie servieren das Mittagessen in zwei Schüben; the first sitting for lunch is at 12 o’clock → die erste Mittagessenzeit ist um 12 Uhr; at one or a single sitting (fig) → auf einmal
sitting:
sitting member
n (Brit Parl) → (derzeitiger) Abgeordneter, (derzeitige) Abgeordnete
sitting room
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