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Sit   /sɪt/   Listen
Sit

verb
(past sat; past part. sat; pres. part. sitting)
1.
Be seated.  Synonym: sit down.
2.
Be around, often idly or without specific purpose.  Synonym: sit around.  "We sat around chatting for another hour"
3.
Take a seat.  Synonym: sit down.
4.
Be in session.
5.
Assume a posture as for artistic purposes.  Synonyms: model, pose, posture.
6.
Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions.  Synonym: ride.  "Did you ever ride a camel?" , "The girl liked to drive the young mare"
7.
Be located or situated somewhere.
8.
Work or act as a baby-sitter.  Synonym: baby-sit.
9.
Show to a seat; assign a seat for.  Synonyms: seat, sit down.
10.
Serve in a specific professional capacity.  "She sat on the jury"



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"Sit" Quotes from Famous Books



... this day brought us a few small pieces of fish, but they were old and hardly eatable. I would not allow them to come near the camp, but made signs to them to sit down at a distance, and when they had done so I went to them and distributed a few fish-hooks. Douglas died this morning, and we buried him at dusk when the natives were gone, and I read the funeral service over him. He was the first of our party we had lost, and ...
— Voyage Of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Vol. 2 (of 2) • John MacGillivray
... and the servant, after a short hesitation, begged him to sit down in the passage a moment. He then went into the dining-room, and shortly reappeared, holding the door open. Out came, not Wardlaw junior, but ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... to your own land exulting in the conquest of the fiercest enemy of Rome. But shall you escape the common fate of the instrument of evil? Shall you see a peaceful old age? Shall a son of yours ever sit upon the throne? Shall not rather some monster of your blood efface the memory of your virtues, and make Rome, in bitterness of soul, curse ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick
... of that night of anguish in Yarborough Tower, and that still darker hour of shame and despair in which Sit Oswald had refused to believe her innocent, was never absent from the mind of Honoria Eversleigh. She brooded upon these dark memories. Time could not lessen their bitterness. Even the soft influence of her infant's love could ...
— Run to Earth - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... I sit in the broad June light On the open bank of the river, In the summer of manhood, young; And over the water bright Is a lair that is overhung With coned pink blooms that quiver And droop, till the water's breast Is of petal ...
— Miscellany of Poetry - 1919 • Various


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