What does sit mean?
Definitions for sit
sɪtsit
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sit.
Princeton's WordNet
sit, sit downverb
be seated
sit, sit aroundverb
be around, often idly or without specific purpose
"The object sat in the corner"; "We sat around chatting for another hour"
sit down, sitverb
take a seat
sitverb
be in session
"When does the court of law sit?"
model, pose, sit, postureverb
assume a posture as for artistic purposes
"We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
ride, sitverb
sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
"She never sat a horse!"; "Did you ever ride a camel?"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare"
sitverb
be located or situated somewhere
"The White House sits on Pennsylvania Avenue"
baby-sit, sitverb
work or act as a baby-sitter
"I cannot baby-sit tonight; I have too much homework to do"
seat, sit, sit downverb
show to a seat; assign a seat for
"The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"
sitverb
serve in a specific professional capacity
"the priest sat for confession"; "she sat on the jury"
Wiktionary
sitnoun
an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
sitverb
To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs (especially the upper legs) are supported by some object.
After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
sitverb
To move oneself into such a position.
I asked him to sit.
sitverb
To occupy a given position permanently.
The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
sitverb
To be a member of a deliberative body.
I currently sit on a standards committee.
sitverb
Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.
sitverb
To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
sitverb
To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
sitverb
To accommodate in seats; to seat.
The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
sitverb
shortened form of babysit.
I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.
sitverb
To babysit
I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
sitverb
(Of an examination or test) To take.
Etymology: sittan, from sitjanan, from *, from sed-. Cognate with German sitzen, Dutch zitten, Swedish sitta; and with Irish suigh, Latin sedeo, Russian сидеть.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Sitverb
Hardly the muse can sit the head-strong horse,
Nor would she, if she could, check his impetuous force. Matthew Prior.The happiest youth viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die. William Shakespeare.He came to visit us, and calling for a chair, sat him down, and we sat down with him. Francis Bacon.
Thus fenc’d,
But not at rest or ease of mind,
They sat them down to weep. John Milton.The court was sat before sir Roger came, but the justices made room for the old knight at the head of them. Addison.
To Sitverb
preterite, I sat.
Etymology: sitan, Gothick; sittan , Sax. setten, Dutch.
There were stays on each side of the sitting place. 1 Chron.
He sat for alms at the beautiful gate. Acts iii. 10.
Their wives do sit beside them carding wool. Thomas May, Virgil.
Aloft in awful state,
The godlike hero sat
On his imperial throne. Dryden.All new fashions be pleasant to me,
I will have them whether I thrive or thee,
Now I am a striker, all men on me look,
What should I do but sit cock on the hoop?
What do I care if all the world me fail,
I will have a garment reach to my tail. Andrew Boorde.Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? Num.
Why sit we here each other viewing idly. John Milton.
I should be still
Plucking the grass to know where sits the wind:
Peering in maps for ports. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Venice.Those
Appointed to sit there had left their charge. John Milton.The ships are ready, and the wind sits fair. Ambrose Philips.
Your brother’s death sits at your heart. William Shakespeare.
When God lets loose upon us a sickness, if we fear to die, then the calamity sits heavy on us. Taylor.
To toss and fling, and to be restless, only galls our fores, and makes the burden that is upon us sit more uneasy. John Tillotson.
Fear, the last of ills, remain’d behind,
And horrour, heavy sat on every mind. Dryden.Our whole endeavours are intent to get rid of the present evil, as the first necessary condition to our happiness. Nothing, as we passionately think, can equal the uneasiness that sits so heavy upon us. John Locke.
That this new comer shame,
There sit not and reproach us. John Milton.When Thetis blush’d, in purple not her own,
And from her face the breathing winds were blown;
A sudden silence sate upon the sea,
And sweeping oars, with struggling, urg’d their way. Dryd.He to the void advanc’d his pace,
Pale horrour sat on each Arcadian face. Dryden.As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not, so he that getteth riches not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days. Jer. xvii. 11.
The egg laid and sever’d from the body of the hen, hath no more nourishment from the hen; but only a quickening heat when she sitteth. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
She mistakes a piece of chalk for an egg, and sits upon it in the same manner. Addison.
This new and gorgeous garment, majesty,
Sits not so easy on me as you think. William Shakespeare.Heav’n knows,
By what by-paths, and indirect crook’d ways
I met this crown; and I myself know well,
How troublesome it sate upon my head;
To thee it shall descend with better quiet. William Shakespeare.Your preferring that to all other considerations does, in the eyes of all men, sit well upon you. John Locke.
One is under no more obligation to extol every thing he finds in the author he translates, than a painter is to make every face that sits to him handsome. Samuel Garth.
As a farmer cannot husband his ground so well, if he sit at a great rent; so the merchant cannot drive his trade so well, if he sit at great usury. Francis Bacon.
Suppose all the church-lands were thrown up to the laity; would the tenants sit easier in their rents than now? Jonathan Swift.
Whether is greater he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? Luke xxii. 27.
The judgment shall sit, and take away his dominion. Dan.
Asses are ye that sit in judgment. Judges v. 10.
Down to the golden Chersonese, or where
The Persian in Echatan sate. John Milton.One council sits upon life and death, the other is for taxes, and a third for the distributions of justice. Addison.
Assert, ye fair ones, who in judgment sit,
Your ancient empire over love and wit. Nicholas Rowe.Three hundred and twenty men sat in council daily. 1 Mac.
Go and sit down to meat. Luke xvii. 7.
When we sit down to our meal, we need not suspect the intrusion of armed uninvited guests. Decay of Piety.
Nor would the enemy have sate down before it, till they had done their business in all other places. Edward Hyde.
Here we cannot sit down, but still proceed in our search, and look higher for a support. John Rogers.
From besides Tanais, the Goths, Huns, and Getes sat down. Edmund Spenser.
They are glad, rather than sit out, to play very small game, and to make use of arguments, such as will not prove a bare inexpediency. Robert Sanderson, Judgment.
He that was dead, sat up, and began to speak. Luke vii.
Be courtly,
And entertain, and feast, sit up, and revel;
Call all the great, the fair and spirited dames
Of Rome about thee, and begin a fashion
Of freedom. Ben Jonson.Some sit up late at winter-fires, and fit
Their sharp-edg’d tools. May.Most children shorten that time by sitting up with the company at night. John Locke.
ChatGPT
sit
Sit is a verb that usually means to be in a position in which your bottom is resting on a chair, the ground, or any other surface where your body is more or less upright. It could also refer to arranging or causing something or someone to be in a specific position or arranging a meeting or a session.
Webster Dictionary
Sit
obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth
Sitverb
to rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground
Sitverb
to perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc
Sitverb
to remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition
Sitverb
to lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him
Sitverb
to be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill
Sitverb
to suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally
Sitverb
to cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate
Sitverb
to have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction
Sitverb
to occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress
Sitverb
to hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night
Sitverb
to take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter
Sitverb
to sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well
Sitverb
to cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively
Sitverb
to suit (well / ill); to become
Etymology: [OE. sitten, AS. sittan; akin to OS. sittian, OFries. sitta, D. zitten, G. sitzen, OHG. sizzen, Icel. sitja, SW. sitta, Dan. sidde, Goth. sitan, Russ. sidiete, L. sedere, Gr. 'e`zesqai, Skr. sad. 154. Cf. Assess,Assize, Cathedral, Chair, Dissident, Excise, Insidious, Possess, Reside, Sanhedrim, Sance, Seat, n., Sedate, 4th Sell, Siege, Session, Set, v. t., Sizar, Size, Subsidy.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sit
sit, v.i. to rest on the haunches: to perch, as birds: to rest: to remain, abide: to brood: to occupy a seat, esp. officially: to be officially engaged: to blow from a certain direction, as the wind: to be worn, to fit, to be becoming: to take an attitude of readiness, or for any special purpose: to hold a deliberative session.—v.t. to keep a seat, or good seat, upon: to seat, place on a seat:—pr.p. sit′ting; pa.t. and pa.p. sat.—n. a subsidence of the roof of a coal-mine: (slang) a situation.—adj. Sit′-fast, fixed, stationary.—n. a callosity of the skin under the saddle, often leading to ulcer.—ns. Sit′ter; Sit′ting, state of resting on a seat: a seat, a special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, &c.; also the right to hold such: the part of the year in which judicial business is transacted: the act or time of resting in a posture for a painter to take a likeness: an official meeting to transact business: uninterrupted application to anything for a time: the time during which one continues at anything: a resting on eggs for hatching, the number hatched at one time; Sit′ting-room, the parlour or most commonly used room in many houses.—Sit down, to take a seat: to pause, rest: to begin a siege; Sit loose, or loosely, to be careless or indifferent; Sit on, or upon, to hold an official inquiry regarding: (slang) to repress, check; Sit out, to sit, or to sit apart, during: to await the close of; Sit under, to be in the habit of hearing the preaching of; Sit up, to raise the body from a recumbent to a sitting position: to keep watch during the night (with). [A.S. sittan; Ger. sitzen, L. sedēre.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
sit
In a military sense, to take a stationary position; as, to sit before a fortification, to lie encamped for the purpose of besieging it.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SIT
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sit is ranked #27918 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Sit surname appeared 859 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sit.
87.7% or 754 total occurrences were Asian.
6.5% or 56 total occurrences were White.
3.9% or 34 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.6% or 14 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sit' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1535
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sit' in Written Corpus Frequency: #440
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'sit' in Verbs Frequency: #69
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sit in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of sit in a Sentence
Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.
It's very demoralizing to sit there and constantly get on and get kicked out, after a while, it's nuts.
Even during jury selection, these people are being told something by how the defendant sits, how the attorneys sit.
Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.
To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
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