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Definition of Sitting

1. Noun. (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. Adjective. (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks. "The audience remained seated"

3. Noun. The act of assuming or maintaining a seated position. "He read the mystery at one sitting"

4. Adjective. Not moving and therefore easy to attack. "A sitting target"

5. Noun. A meeting of spiritualists. "The seance was held in the medium's parlor"

6. Noun. A session as of a legislature or court.

Definition of Sitting

1. a. Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.

2. n. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

Definition of Sitting

1. Noun. a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose ¹

2. Noun. a legislative session ¹

3. Noun. the act (of a bird) of incubating eggs; the clutch of eggs under a brooding bird ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of sit) ¹

5. Adjective. executed from a sitting position ¹

6. Adjective. occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sitting

1. a meeting or session [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sitting

1. 1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat. 2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings. 3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc. 4. 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. "The sitting closed in great agitation." (Macaulay) 5. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc. "For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting." (Locke) 6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls. "The male bird . . . Amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting." (Addison) Sitting room, an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sitting

sits out sits still sits up sittar sittars sittella sittellas sitten sitter sitters

sittest sitteth sittin' sittine sitting (current term) sitting-room sitting-rooms sitting around sitting down sitting duck

sitting ducks sitting in sitting on it sitting on the fence sitting out sitting pretty sitting room sitting rooms sitting still

Literary usage of Sitting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon by Napoleon, Gaspard Gourgaud, Charles Jean Tristan Montholon (1823)
"sitting of March 13, 1815. THE Plenipotentiaries of the Allied Courts make the following declaration, to be inserted in the Protocol : The Plenipotentiaries ..."

2. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1912)
"*sitting Ro] seat by Antonio. 6This speech seems long, but it is almost impossible to cut it. ... sitting ..."

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