Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Definition: Sit By |
Sit ByVerb1. Be inactive or indifferent while something is happening; "Don't just sit by while your rights are violated!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Sit BySynonym: sit back (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sit By |
| English words defined with "sit by": Cuttystool ♦ Damocles, Double-banked ♦ King's Bench ♦ Pedarian ♦ sit back ♦ To be beside one's self. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sit by": Abracadabra ♦ Beleses, BRAHMA ♦ Crowd ♦ demo mode ♦ Excess ♦ ICONOCLAST ♦ Rouen. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) Well, you know what they say: if you don't have anything nice to say about anybody, come sit by me! (Steel Magnolias; writing credit: Robert Harling) | |
Lyrics | And sit by the phone for you (JESSE; performing artist: Carly Simon) I won't sit by the phone for you (JESSE; performing artist: Carly Simon) Hey, he's gonna sit by you (Another One Rides The Bus; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | He himself, would sit by the old Dutch housewives with a purring grimalkin on his lap. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Ernest Shipman presents Mary Shaw in Alice sit by the fire by J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, The little minister, etc. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I shall sit by you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "sit by"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Bulgarian | стоя безучастно. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | starsene a guardare. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | itsay ybay ทำอะไรไม่ไ"้. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adsedero, adsedit, adsidebat, adsidentium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: bitsy. | |
| Words within the letters "b-i-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: bits. | |
-2 letters: bis, bit, bys, its, sib, sit, sty, tis. | |
-3 letters: bi, by, is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-i-s-t-y" | |
+2 letters: babysit, bristly, obesity, symbiot. | |
+3 letters: babysits, basicity, bestiary, biotypes, bistoury, blistery, bodysuit, botrytis, butyrins, hobbyist, lobbyist, obtusity, satiably, sobriety, stubbily, subtilty, suitably, sybarite, symbiont, symbiote, symbiots, tensibly. | |
+4 letters: absurdity, baptistry, bestially, biacetyls, bicyclist, bimethyls, biosafety, birthdays, bodysuits, brutishly, buttinsky, cymbalist, estimably, gibbosity, gigabytes, hobbyists, kilobytes, lobbyists, obscenity, obscurity, obstinacy, salubrity, stability, suability, sublimity, subtilely, sybarites, sybaritic, symbionts, symbiotes, symbiotic, symbolist, tomboyish, usability, verbosity, ytterbias. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 74      42 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01110100 00100000 01000010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i t   B y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 0074      0042 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53758623691 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, bulgaro |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, italiano, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | tailandese, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, inglese, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.