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

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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. Lindsay Lohan:

   One time I was sick with a bug, I had been vomiting all day, but no way was I going to miss a show, i was sitting there beforehand seeing spots in front of my eyes. I had a plan: if I felt sick on stage I was going to faint, play dead, pretend it was part of the script. Didn't happen fortunately.

2. Vladimir Putin:

   This poor girl is sitting here, our Butina, she faces 15 years in prison, for what ?

3. 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.

4. Judge Andrew Napolitano:

   There are judges sitting in an emergent capacity for applications like this.

5. Chris Crane:

   It should be frightening to every American that a sitting member of Congress would threaten the safety of any person and their family, and incite the public to take acts of violence against them, let alone the lives of those whose job it is to protect us and keep us safe.

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