Sit Down

Definition: Sit Down

Sit Down

Verb

1. Take a seat.

2. Show to a seat; assign a seat for: "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith".

3. Be seated.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Sit Down

Arrival

Light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in, put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down; (be located); get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in; (ingress); make one's appearance; (appear); drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan; de-orbit.

Depression

Sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy, curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head, bow the head; cower; recline; (be horizontal).

Horizontality

Verb: be horizontal; Adjective: lie, recline, couch; lie down, lie flat, lie prostrate; sprawl, loll, sit down.

Location

Inhabit; (be present); domesticate, colonize; take root, strike root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down; settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself, establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's horses at; keep house.

Crosswords: Sit Down

I'd ask you to sit down, but, you're not going to anyway. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

Sit down, Jake. (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein.)

The Whos young and old would sit down to a Feast, and they will feast, and they will feast. (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; writing credit: Jeffrey Price)

You played a tomato for 30 seconds -- they went a half a day over schedule because you wouldn't sit down. (Tootsie; writing credit: Larry Gelbart; Don McGuire)

Oh! Now y'all runnin' Now y'all No, no, no, no, sit down, sit down, It's only a 600 foot worm! (Men in Black II; writing credit: Lowell Cunningham; Robert Gordon)

And you can let some other fool sit down (Pop A Top; performing artist: Alan Jackson)

But sit down in that chair right there ("The Devil Went Down to Georgia"; performing artist: Charlie Daniels Band)

Got to sit down, take a rest on the porch. (LOOKIN' OUT MY BACK DOOR; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival)

I can't afford to sit down, get bored (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

I cannot sit down, I can't shut my mouth, (I Don't Want Your Love; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Parental Observation: If you have trouble getting your children's attention, just sit down and look comfortable. (references; author: unknown)

Shut Up Sit Down (2000)

You Can't Sit Down (performing artist: The Dovells)

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Books

• Sacred Energies: When the World's Religions Sit Down to Talk About the Future of Human Life and the Plight of This Planet (reference)

• Sit Down (reference)

• Sit Down, God...I'm Angry (reference)

• When I Sit Down To Play (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Sit Down & Tone Up (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• You Better Sit Down (reference)

• Sit Down...It's the Mojo Men (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Let's sit down, Ivan -- we're both in this together!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1904)

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Marius sat down, and made sign to him to sit down.

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Civil Liberties

Korea

In the past, there have been allegations that discipline includes physical torture such as placing wooden logs between the knees of offenders, after which they were forced to sit down, causing them excruciating pain. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sit down": ask to sit down ♦ cause to sit down ♦ sit down again ♦ sit down by ♦ sit down on ♦ sit down to table ♦ sit down to work ♦ sit down under ♦ To sit down. Additional references.

Afrikaans

aansit (draw up to the table, put, put on, sit down to table). (various references)

Albanian

zbritem në tokë, vendosem (determine, locate, make up one's mind, put up, stand, think fit), ulem (alight, bend, bend over, burn down, decrease, deepen, descend, dip, drop, duck, fall, go down, recede, sink, sit, take a seat), ndenjie. (various references)

Arabic 

‏قعد (maim, paralyse, paralyze, sit), ‏جلس (bench, sit, take a seat). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сядам (perch, seat, sit, sit up, squat, take a seat, take seats), установявам се (agree, settle down), седяща стачка (sit in), слагам да седне (seat, sit). (various references)

Chinese 

坐下 . (various references)

Czech

sednout si. (various references)

Danish

sætte sig. (various references)

Dutch

zich zetten (settle, subside), plaatsnemen, gaan zitten. (various references)

Esperanto

sidiĝi, eksidi. (various references)

Faeroese

setast, seta seg, sessast. (various references)

Finnish

istuutukaa (please, take a seat please), istuutua (seat oneself, take a seat), istahtaa (perch). (various references)

French

asseoir. (various references)

German

sich setzen (alight, land, land up, perch, settle, sit, to be seated, to seat), hinsetzen (put down, set down, to sit down). (various references)

Greek 

κάτσε κάτω, κάθομαι κάτω, καθήστε. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"רביץ (beat, cause to sit down, disseminate, hit, smack, spank, sprinkle, strike). (various references)

Hungarian

leül (take a seat, to absquatulate, to sit down, to take a seat, to take place). (various references)

Inuktitut

iksivajuq (to sit down). (various references)

Italian

sedersi (sit), sedere (backside, be seated, rump, sit, take a seat, to sit), accomodare (accommodate, adjust, arrange, compromise, mend, repair, take a seat). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

着席 (seat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちゃくせき (seat). (various references)

Manx

soie sheese (settle). (various references)

Maya

kul (to sit down). (various references)

Mohawk

-tyars (to sit down). (various references)

Pig Latin

itsay ownday

Polish

usiąść. (various references)

Portuguese

sentar‐se, assentar‐se. (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

sente-se (one feels, you feel). (various references)

Romanian

stai jos, sta jos, se aşeza (colonize, install, perch, seat, settle, sit), luaţi loc (be seated, take a seat), şedea (be, remain, sit, stay), aşezaţi-vã (take a seat). (various references)

Russian 

садиться (alighted, set, shrink). (various references)

Scottish

suidhe (sitting : dèan suidhe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sesti (get into, get on, take a seat), posedati, gde se sedi. (various references)

Spanish

sentarse (seat oneself, sit, sit oneself, sitting down, squat). (various references)

Swedish

sätta sig (light, move, perch, sag, sit, subside). (various references)

Thai

นั่งลง. (various references)

Turkish

yere inmek (alight, land, touch down), oturtmak (clap, embed, fit, gear, indwell, Mount, place, reset, seat, set, sit, site, slot), oturmak (be seated, dwell in, fall, fit, gear, hang out, indwell, inhabit, live, locate, Lodge, occupy, park oneself, perch, reside, room, seat oneself, set, settle, sit, sit on, sit oneself, stable, take a seat, tenant), oturanlara servis yapılan yemek, koyulmak (address oneself to, approach, attack, begin, go, hop to it, launch out, set about, set oneself to do smth., set out, set to, settle down to, start, start in, start off, start out, tackle, turn to), iniş yapmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

сідати (alight, seat oneself, set, sit oneself, take a seat), оселятися (colonize, haft, settle, settle down), братися (address, fall on, take up), приземлятися (ground). (various references)

Yucatec

kutal, kultal. (various references)

adsedero, adsedit, adsidebat, adsidentium, assidere, persidam, reside, residebant, residens, resident, residentes, residentibus, residere, sidone, sidonem. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: disown, indows.

-2 letters: dints, doits, downs, indow, nowts, odist, tondi, towns, twins, winds, winos, wonts.

-3 letters: dins, dint, dits, doit, dons, dost, dots, down, dows, into, ions, nits, nodi, nods, nows, nowt, owns, snit, snot, snow, sown, stow, swot, tins, tods, tons, town, tows, twin, twos, wind, wino, wins, wist, wits, wons, wont.

+1 letter: downiest, midtowns, outwinds.

+2 letters: dawsonite, downshift, downticks, downtimes, satinwood, snowdrift, stinkwood, thindowns, whodunits, windstorm.

+3 letters: dawsonites, disownment, downshifts, downstairs, satinwoods, snowdrifts, stinkwoods, wainscoted, whodunnits, windstorms, windthrows.

+4 letters: disownments, downshifted, thistledown, wainscotted, withindoors.

+5 letters: disendowment, downshifting, thistledowns, towardliness, woodcuttings.