Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To rest with the torso vertical and the body supported on the buttocks.
- intransitive verb To rest with the hindquarters lowered onto a supporting surface. Used of animals.
- intransitive verb To perch. Used of birds.
- intransitive verb To cover eggs for hatching; brood.
- intransitive verb To be situated or located.
- intransitive verb To lie or rest.
- intransitive verb To pose for an artist or photographer.
- intransitive verb To occupy a seat as a member of a body of officials.
- intransitive verb To be in session.
- intransitive verb To remain inactive or unused.
- intransitive verb To affect one with or as if with a burden; weigh.
- intransitive verb To fit, fall, or drape in a specified manner.
- intransitive verb To be agreeable to one; please.
- intransitive verb Chiefly British To take an examination, as for a degree.
- intransitive verb To blow from a particular direction. Used of the wind.
- intransitive verb To keep watch or take care of a child.
- intransitive verb To cause to sit; seat.
- intransitive verb To keep one's seat on (an animal).
- intransitive verb To sit on (eggs) for the purpose of hatching.
- intransitive verb To provide seating accommodation for.
- noun The act of sitting.
- noun A period of time spent sitting.
- noun The way in which an article of clothing, such as a dress or jacket, fits.
- idiom (sit on (one's) hands) To fail to act.
- idiom (sit pretty) To be in a very favorable position.
- idiom (sit tight) To be patient and await the next move.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A subsidence or fall of the roof of a coal-mine.
- To take or have such a posture that the back is comparatively erect, while the rest of the body bends at the hips and generally at the knees, to conform to a support beneath; rest in such a posture; occupy a seat: said of persons, and also of some animals, as dogs and cats.
- To crouch, as a bird on a nest; hence, to brood; incubate.
- To perch in a crouching posture; roost: said of birds.
- To be or continue in a state of rest; remain passive or inactive; repose.
- To continue in a position or place; remain; stay; pass the time.
- To be located; have a seat or site; be placed; dwell; abide.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In another summer I shall not sit so high, nor, indeed, _sit_ anywhere, but take instead the easiest and laziest of all positions.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 Various
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Upon that same plain, Ludwig Halberger and his people are accustomed to see others than wild horses -- some with men upon their backs, who sit them as firmly as riders in the ring; that is, when they do _sit_ them, which is not always.
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco Mayne Reid 1850
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The tendency to "sit" is a sex-distinction of the hen: the tendency to strut is a sex-distinction of the cock.
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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Clinton would ‘look forward’ to Palin sit down « - Blogs from CNN. com
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Stephani Victor took silver in sit-ski slalom and Andy Soule took bronze in sit-ski biathlon for the first U.S. medals in the Paralympic Games, which continue in Vancouver and Whistler through March 21.
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The floor of the domestic terminal where the check-in clerks sit is littered with refuse -- half empty food containers, plastic water bottles, reams of paper, and the clerks 'chairs are in various stages of severe to total brokenness.
Mike Arkus: Recent African Airport Experiences: From Presidential Shutdown to an 'Are-They-Out-to-Get-Me' Moment Mike Arkus 2010
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The floor of the domestic terminal where the check-in clerks sit is littered with refuse -- half empty food containers, plastic water bottles, reams of paper, and the clerks 'chairs are in various stages of severe to total brokenness.
Mike Arkus: Recent African Airport Experiences: From Presidential Shutdown to an 'Are-They-Out-to-Get-Me' Moment Mike Arkus 2010
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What I see from where I sit is a Republican Party that only functions with obstruction.
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The floor of the domestic terminal where the check-in clerks sit is littered with refuse -- half empty food containers, plastic water bottles, reams of paper, and the clerks 'chairs are in various stages of severe to total brokenness.
Mike Arkus: Recent African Airport Experiences: From Presidential Shutdown to an 'Are-They-Out-to-Get-Me' Moment Mike Arkus 2010
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Craig is probably best remembered for playing dizzy housewives in sit coms, but she began acting in significant films like The Servant and The Nanny.
bilby commented on the word sit
'Tis in a DeSoto sedan I sit.
October 18, 2008