sitting

Meanings

Plural: sittings

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"
• the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position
  • "he read the mystery at one sitting"
• a meeting of spiritualists
• a session as of a legislature or court
• A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
• A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
• A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
• The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
• A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
• The incubation of eggs by a bird.
• A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
• Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

Verb

• be seated
• be around, often idly or without specific purpose
• take a seat
• be in session
• assume a posture as for artistic purposes
• sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
• be located or situated somewhere
• work or act as a baby-sitter
• show to a seat; assign a seat for
• serve in a specific professional capacity
• present participle and gerund of sit

Adjective

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

Adjective Satellite

• not moving and therefore easy to attack
  • "a sitting target"

Adj

• Executed from a sitting position.
• Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

Synonyms

baby-sit, model, pose, posing, posture, ride, seance, seat, seated, session, sit, sit around, sit down

Antonyms

arise, lie, stand, standing

Anagrams of sitting