sit

IPA: sˈɪt

An act of sitting.
(mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
(rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
A surname.
(informal) Short for situation. [The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.]
(telecommunications) Initialism of special information tone.
(India) Initialism of Special Investigation Team.

(intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
(intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
(intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position.
(intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
(government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
(law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
To be adjusted; to fit.
(intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
(transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
(transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
(US, transitive, intransitive) To babysit.
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
(obsolete, transitive) To keep one's seat when faced with (a blow, attack); to endure, to put up with.

Examples of "sit" in Sentences

What I see from where I sit is a Republican Party that only functions with obstruction.
The tendency to "sit" is a sex-distinction of the hen: the tendency to strut is a sex-distinction of the cock.
In another summer I shall not sit so high, nor, indeed, _sit_ anywhere, but take instead the easiest and laziest of all positions.
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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.
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.
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.
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.