Definitions for sitting
ˈsɪt ɪŋsit·ting

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. sitting, posingnoun

   (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"

2. sittingnoun

   the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position

   "he read the mystery at one sitting"

3. seance, sitting, sessionnoun

   a meeting of spiritualists

   "the seance was held in the medium's parlor"

4. sittingadjective

   a session as of a legislature or court

5. seated, sittingadjective

   (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks

   "the seated Madonna"; "the audience remained seated"

6. sittingadjective

   not moving and therefore easy to attack

   "a sitting target"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. sittingnoun

   a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose

2. sittingnoun

   a legislative session

3. sittingnoun

   the act (of a bird) of incubating eggs; the clutch of eggs under a brooding bird

4. sittingadjective

   executed from a sitting position

5. sittingadjective

   occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sitting

   of Sit

2. Sittingadjective

   being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits

3. Sittingnoun

   the state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat

4. Sittingnoun

   a seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings

5. Sittingnoun

   the act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc

6. Sittingnoun

   the actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission

7. Sittingnoun

   the time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc

8. Sittingnoun

   a brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Sitting

   Sitting is a rest position supported by the buttocks or thighs where the torso is more or less upright.

Matched Categories

1. • Meeting
   • Motion
   • Photography

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'sitting' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1424

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'sitting' in Written Corpus Frequency: #707

How to pronounce sitting?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say sitting in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of sitting in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of sitting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of sitting in a Sentence

1. Ted Cruz:

   I feel confident that I'm never going to have a plane with my name on it, how do you run a grassroots campaign? It's very time intensive. It's labor intensive. You don't do it sitting back in the easy chair. You don't do it from a TV studio in Manhattan.

2. Eric Nierenberg:

   The vast majority of institutional investors would rather be sitting around and having a discussion about structured credit tranches instead of going to splashy parties, what we are trying to do is very sober.

3. Valentyna Yefimova:

   We were sitting inside when the shelling started … and then a shell landed on the corner of the house, but we were lucky as the blast threw the refrigerator onto us and it protected us from splinters.

4. Marion Nestle:

   What there’s no sign of -- and there hasn’t been for a while -- people who are involved in agriculture policy sitting down and thinking what kind of an agriculture policy we need in a situation where we’re dealing with climate change, if you’re doing rational agriculture policy, you want to have enough food to feed the people, farmers to be able to make a living, and an agriculture system that will promote public health and do the least possible harm to the environment.

5. Crabber Brian Kesby:

   I just pulled the crab pots and it was just sitting on top, then the other one I found was inside it. There were a lot of kids swimming around there ... people need to be careful.

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