sit|ting

sit|ting
sit|ting «SIHT ihng», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a) a meeting or session of a court, legislature, commission, or anything like it: »

The hearing lasted for six sittings of the court.

b) the period of time occupied by this.
2. a) a time of remaining seated: »

She read five chapters at one sitting.

b) a period of posing: »

to do a portrait in three sittings.

3. the act of one that sits.
4. a) the act of a bird, especially a hen, in setting; brooding. b) the number of eggs on which a bird sits; clutch.
5. a seat for one person in a church or other place of worship: »

The church is enlarged by at least five hundred sittings (George Eliot).

–adj.
1. that sits; seated: »

a sitting dog.

2. that sets; setting: »

a sitting hen.

3. that has a seat, as in a legislative body or on a committee: »

a sitting magistrate.

4. a) of or having to do with sitting: »

to be in bed in a sitting position.

b) used for sitting; in which one sits or may sit: »

the sitting area of an auditorium, to find sitting space.

c) used in sitting: »

the sitting muscles.


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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