Sitting

Definition: Sitting

Sitting

Adjective

1. (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks; "the seated Madonna"; "the audience remained seated".

2. Not moving and therefore easy to attack; "a sitting target".

Noun

1. 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".

2. The act of assuming or maintaining a seated position; "he read the mystery at one sitting".

3. A meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor".

4. A session as of a legislature or court.

Date "sitting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definition
Bible	Sitting the attitude generally assumed in Palestine by those who were engaged in any kind of work. "The carpenter saws, planes, and hews with his hand-adze, sitting on the ground or upon the plank he is planning. The washerwoman sits by the tub; and, in a word, no one stands when it is possible to sit. Shopkeepers always sit, and Levi sitting at the receipt of custom (Matt. 9:9) is the exact way to state the case.", Thomson, Land and Book. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Sitting

Synonyms: seated (adj), posing (n), seance (n), session (n). (additional references)

Antonym: standing (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Council	Assembly, caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar, house; quorum; council fire, powwow, primary.
Preparation	Ripening; Verb: maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction, digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting.
Receptacle	Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I have to piss sitting down like a goddamn girlie-girl every fifteen minutes (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Would your father be happy knowing you're sitting in a token booth planning vacations you're never going to take (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow.) I could be just sitting at home with pee stains on my rug. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) And that's how it came to pass that on the second-to-last day of the job, the convict crew that tarred the plate factory roof in the spring of forty-nine wound up sitting in a row at ten o'clock in the morning drinking icy cold, Bohemia-style beer, courtesy of the hardest screw that ever walked a turn at Shawshank State Prison (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont) In one sitting. (Snatch.; writing credit: Guy Ritchie)
Lyrics	You're sitting around mopin', mopin', mopin', cryin', cryin' (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville) It was like shooting a sitting duck (Lay All Your Love On Me; performing artist: Abba) She was sitting at the table (Smooth Criminal; performing artist: Alien Ant Farm) There's an old man sitting next to me ("Piano Man"; performing artist: Billy Joel) And points all her own sitting way up high (Night Moves; performing artist: BOB SEGER; writing credit: Bob Seger)
Clever	You can't get to the top by sitting on your bottom. (references; author: unknown) What do Eskimos get from sitting on the ice too long? Polaroids. (references; author: unknown) A lot of church members who are singing "Standing on the Promises" are just sitting on the premises. (references; author: unknown)
Tongue Twisters	Sarah sitting in her Chevrolet, all she does is sits and shifts, all she does is sits and shifts. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	The Bed Sitting Room (1969) Sitting Bull (1954) Why Sitting Bull Stood Up (1923) Sitting Bull: The Hostile Sioux Indian Chief (1914) An Interrupted Sitting (1898)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Boy Called Slow: The True Story of Sitting Bull (reference) Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West (M.K. Brown Range Life Series, 21) (reference) Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Sitting Bull (reference) Sitting Pretty (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Sitting on Top of the World [LIVE] (reference) Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down [EXTRA TRACKS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Adjustable Foot Rest Keeps Legs& Feet At Comfortable Sitting (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Pictured here is a large group of adults and children sitting around a swimming pool. They are members of a national group called the Candlelighters, which gives emotional support and practical advice to parents, patients and siblings of cancer victims. This group is in Las Vegas, Nevada and is one of more than 100 nationwide. The Candlelighters headquarters is in Washington, DC. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).		Three drawings of individuals checking themselves during a skin self exam. First is a man standing, examing his back in a mirror; second, a woman sitting on stool examing her feet; third, woman checking face in hand mirror. Credit: Jeanne Kelly (artist).
	Observing in western Nebraska Chase, Smith, and Nicodemus Recorder sitting and writing down angle observations Triangulation party of Wilbur Porter. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		C&GS Ship PIONEER wardroom. Standing L to R: Karwisch, McCaffrey ...... Patrick on end Sitting L to R: Harley Nygren, Horace Conerly, Captain William F. Deane CME De Steuben, Miller Tonkel. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	A well-camouflaged Leopard Frog sitting near the edge of a salt water creek. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Leo Attungowruk and wife standing, Warren Neokok and wife sitting. The men helped with the survey work. At Point Lay Village. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Recorder sitting and writing angles as observer measures angles with theodolite. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.		Helicopter sitting on sea ice at Ukivok, on King Island. Credit: Flying With NOAA.
	Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. A brown pelican sitting on top of a sign marking the boundary of the Weeks Bay NERR. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).		"The cabin." This was the captain's quarters. The individual sitting is Zera Luther Tanner, first commanding officer of the ALBATROSS. In: "Report on the Construction and Outfit of the United States Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS" , by Lieutenant-Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Part XI. Report of the Commissioner for 1883. Plate III. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Arthur Schopenhauer	In early life, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theater before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly wating for the play to begin.
Author Unknown	Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
	It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you just keep sitting.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.
Sitting Bull	The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
Thomas p Kempis	Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Tori Amos	When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
Veda Upanishads	Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Constant frequent meetings of the legislative, and long continuations of their assemblies, without necessary occasion, could not but be burdensome to the people, and must necessarily in time produce more dangerous inconveniencies, and yet the quick turn of affairs might be sometimes such as to need their present help: any delay of their convening might endanger the public; and sometimes too their business might be so great, that the limited time of their sitting might be too short for their work, and rob the public of that benefit which could be had only from their mature deliberation. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Constitution	1791	When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	To be sitting long after dinner, was a confinement that he could not endure
Alice in Wonderland	Carroll, Lewis	As she said this, she looked up, and there was the Cat again, sitting on a branch of a tree
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency	Douglas Adams	"I could hit a dozen with a bread roll from where Iâ€™m sitting."
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	And he rose to a sitting posture
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Cranly was sitting over near the dictionaries
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Fifteen feet back from the men the fed cat was sitting, the long gray tail wrapped neatly around the front feet
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	At last I beheld several animals in a field, and one or two of the same kind sitting in trees
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	As the sparrow had its trill, sitting on the hickory before my door, so had I my chuckle or suppressed warble which he might hear out of my nest
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		When sitting, get up slowly. (references)
		Sitting next to an infected person. (references)
		Avoid sitting with your legs crossed. (references)
Business		Also, from all imports of U.S. furniture, sitting rooms are the most widely sold items in the Palestinian Areas. (references)
		Within the home, Palestinians tend to allocate resources first on furnishing the most socially prominent areas, i.e. sitting, living, and dining rooms. (references)
		As described in Table I (above), U.S. manufacturers of sitting room sets can easily compete with Italian exporters on a price basis and with local manufacturers on a quality basis. (references)
Civil Liberties	Tunisia	A sitting judge, Jedidi Ghenya, lodged two complaints against Al-Mustaquella with the Independent Television Commission (ITC), a body in the United Kingdom responsible for regulating private broadcasting. (references)
	Kenya	On May 20, youths, reportedly acting on behalf of KANU, disrupted a rally by hurling gasoline bombs at the stage on which the leader of the official opposition, Mwai Kibaki of the DP, and several other M.P.'s were sitting. (references)
Economic History	Guyana	The president may dissolve the assembly and call new elections at any time, but no later than 5 years from its first sitting. (references)
Human Rights	Belize	Of the four justices sitting on the Supreme Court, only one is a citizen. (references)
	Kenya	The assessors are taken from all walks of life and receive a sitting allowance for the case. (references)
	Bosnia and Herzegovina	The process of vetting all of Bosnia's sitting judges and prosecutors continued during the year. (references)
Political Economy	Tunisia	In July the Government suspended a sitting district judge for criticizing the lack of independence of the judicial system. (references)
	Sudan	The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, formerly elected by sitting judges, is nominated by a Judiciary Committee and appointed by the President. (references)
	Kuwait	He may ask for reconsideration of a bill passed by the National Assembly and sent to him for ratification, but the bill automatically becomes law if it is subsequently passed by a two-thirds majority at the next sitting, or by a simple majority at a subsequent sitting. (references)
Political Rights	Vanuatu	Six women, including the sole sitting female member, ran for Parliament in 1998; none were elected. (references)
	Iran	She was the first sitting Majles member to face prosecution for statements made under cover of immunity. (references)
	Tunisia	A candidate must receive the endorsement of 30 sitting deputies or municipal council presidents to be eligible to run. (references)
Travel	Philippines	It is also customary to have a drink before sitting at a dining table. (references)
	Austria	Save by sitting in second class, which provides more than enough comfort within Austria. (references)
	Saudi Arabia	One should eat with the right hand and avoid sitting at any time with the sole of the foot pointed at the host or other guest. (references)
Women	Kuwait	However, men and women practiced voluntary self-segregation, either by members of each gender sitting on opposite sides of a given classroom or by one gender choosing not to enroll in a given course. (references)
Worker Rights	Zimbabwe	Collective bargaining wage negotiations take place on an industry-wide basis between the relevant union and employer organizations sitting on joint employment boards or councils. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	STORY, n. A narrative, commonly untrue. The truth of the stories here following has, however, not been successfully impeached. One evening Mr. Rudolph Block, of New York, found himself seated at dinner alongside Mr. Percival Pollard, the distinguished critic. "Mr. Pollard," said he, "my book, The Biography of a Dead Cow, is published anonymously, but you can hardly be ignorant of its authorship. Yet in reviewing it you speak of it as the work of the Idiot of the Century. Do you think that fair criticism?" "I am very sorry, sir," replied the critic, amiably, "but it did not occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it." Mr. W.C. Morrow, who used to live in San Jose, California, was addicted to writing ghost stories which made the reader feel as if a stream of lizards, fresh from the ice, were streaking it up his back and hiding in his hair. San Jose was at that time believed to be haunted by the visible spirit of a noted bandit named Vasquez, who had been hanged there. The town was not very well lighted, and it is putting it mildly to say that San Jose was reluctant to be out o' nights. One particularly dark night two gentlemen were abroad in the loneliest spot within the city limits, talking loudly to keep up their courage, when they came upon Mr. J.J. Owen, a well-known journalist. "Why, Owen," said one, "what brings you here on such a night as this? You told me that this is one of Vasquez' favorite haunts! And you are a believer. Aren't you afraid to be out?" "My dear fellow," the journalist replied with a drear autumnal cadence in his speech, like the moan of a leaf-laden wind, "I am afraid to be in. I have one of Will Morrow's stories in my pocket and I don't dare to go where there is light enough to read it." Rear-Admiral Schley and Representative Charles F. Joy were standing near the Peace Monument, in Washington, discussing the question, Is success a failure? Mr. Joy suddenly broke off in the middle of an eloquent sentence, exclaiming: "Hello! I've heard that band before. Santlemann's, I think." "I don't hear any band," said Schley. "Come to think, I don't either," said Joy; "but I see General Miles coming down the avenue, and that pageant always affects me in the same way as a brass band. One has to scrutinize one's impressions pretty closely, or one will mistake their origin." While the Admiral was digesting this hasty meal of philosophy General Miles passed in review, a spectacle of impressive dignity. When the tail of the seeming procession had passed and the two observers had recovered from the transient blindness caused by its effulgence -- "He seems to be enjoying himself," said the Admiral. "There is nothing," assented Joy, thoughtfully, "that he enjoys one-half so well." The illustrious statesman, Champ Clark, once lived about a mile from the village of Jebigue, in Missouri. One day he rode into town on a favorite mule, and, hitching the beast on the sunny side of a street, in front of a saloon, he went inside in his character of teetotaler, to apprise the barkeeper that wine is a mocker. It was a dreadfully hot day. Pretty soon a neighbor came in and seeing Clark, said: "Champ, it is not right to leave that mule out there in the sun. He'll roast, sure! -- he was smoking as I passed him." "O, he's all right," said Clark, lightly; "he's an inveterate smoker." The neighbor took a lemonade, but shook his head and repeated that it was not right. He was a conspirator. There had been a fire the night before: a stable just around the corner had burned and a number of horses had put on their immortality, among them a young colt, which was roasted to a rich nut-brown. Some of the boys had turned Mr. Clark's mule loose and substituted the mortal part of the colt. Presently another man entered the saloon. "For mercy's sake!" he said, taking it with sugar, "do remove that mule, barkeeper: it smells." "Yes," interposed Clark, "that animal has the best nose in Missouri. But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't." In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much of his political preferment, went away. But walking home late that night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the misty moonlight. Mentioning the name of Helen Blazes with uncommon emphasis, Mr. Clark took the back track as hard as ever he could hook it, and passed the night in town. General H.H. Wotherspoon, president of the Army War College, has a pet rib-nosed baboon, an animal of uncommon intelligence but imperfectly beautiful. Returning to his apartment one evening, the General was surprised and pained to find Adam (for so the creature is named, the general being a Darwinian) sitting up for him and wearing his master's best uniform coat, epaulettes and all. "You confounded remote ancestor!" thundered the great strategist, "what do you mean by being out of bed after naps? -- and with my coat on!" Adam rose and with a reproachful look got down on all fours in the manner of his kind and, scuffling across the room to a table, returned with a visiting-card: General Barry had called and, judging by an empty champagne bottle and several cigar-stumps, had been hospitably entertained while waiting. The general apologized to his faithful progenitor and retired. The next day he met General Barry, who said: "Spoon, old man, when leaving you last evening I forgot to ask you about those excellent cigars. Where did you get them?" General Wotherspoon did not deign to reply, but walked away. "Pardon me, please," said Barry, moving after him; "I was joking of course. Why, I knew it was not you before I had been in the room fifteen minutes."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Ann Richards	Well, don't kid yourself. On they could be segregationists. They're not sitting there trailing in their mama's backyard and they're going to talk about it. But they're not going to be in the leadership.
Carol Burnett	I'm sitting here, and, you know, you go on a show and you are always talking about how wonderful everybody is in this, you know, because that's what you do when you want to promote something.
James Van Praagh	That's right. I wouldn't have anything to do with it if that message didn't come through. And I wouldn't be sitting here right now if they didn't do that.
Rush Limbaugh	Folks, I'm sitting here thinking that there's a public service we could all engage in that would be reeking of compassion and demonstrative of the heart we all possess.
Ted Koppel	I remember sitting in on a meeting in Rune's office and all kinds of names were coming up, crazy names. We all hated every name that came up.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	The payments stipulated by the convention with Denmark have been punctually made, and the amount is ready for distribution among the claimants as soon as the board, now sitting, shall have performed their functions.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sitting" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.07% of the time. "Sitting" is used about 7,536 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	93.07%	7,014	1,382
Noun (singular)	5.1%	385	14,324
Adjective (general or positive)	1.78%	134	27,488
Noun (proper)	0.05%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	7,536	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "sitting".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Jashobeam	N/A	Biblical	The people sitting
Jeshebeab	N/A	Biblical	Sitting
Sanhedrin	N/A	Biblical	Sitting together
Shibmah	N/A	Biblical	Sitting
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "sitting": baby sitting ♦ be left sitting ♦ be sitting ♦ be sitting in the session ♦ be sitting pretty ♦ plenary sitting ♦ remain sitting ♦ sitting about ♦ sitting Bull ♦ sitting duck ♦ sitting hen ♦ sitting member ♦ sitting pretty ♦ sitting room ♦ sitting target ♦ sitting tenant ♦ sitting trot ♦ sitting up late ♦ sitting with folded arms ♦ trot sitting ♦ without sitting down. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sitting": sitting-day, sitting-down, sitting-in, sitting-out, sitting-room, sitting-rooms, sitting-up.
	Ending with "sitting": baby-sitting, bed-sitting, half-sitting, house-sitting.
	Containing "sitting": bed-sitting room, bed-sitting-room, bed-sitting-rooms, bed-sitting-room-study.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "sitting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		sitkamer (living room, living-room, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

Albanian		seancë (meeting, proceedings, session), mbledhje (accumulation, addition, assemblage, assembly, clearing, collection, congregation, contraction, convocation, council, erection, furl, gathering, Ingathering, meeting, muster, picking, proceedings, rally, reaping, retraction, round up, session, shrinkage, squat, summation, turn out), i ulur (cut, depressed, reduced, seated, sedentary). (various references)

Arabic		‏في حالة إنعقاد, ‏حضن أنثى الطائر بيضها, ‏حاط (degrading, guard, wall), ‏حاضنة (nurse, nursemaid), ‏جلسة محكمة, ‏جلسة (congressional, court, gathering, hearing, meeting, seance, session), ‏الحالي (present), ‏راك. (various references)

Bulgarian		сеанс, седене, трон (siege, stall, throne), заседание (audience, meeting, proceedings, session), люпило (brood, clutch, hatch, nest). (various references)

Chinese		开会. (various references)

Czech		sedící, sedìní na vejcích, sedìní, zasedání (meeting, session). (various references)

Danish		liggen på rede (nest sitting). (various references)

Dutch		zittingstijd (session), zittingsperiode (session), zitting (meeting, session). (various references)

Esperanto		salono (lounge, parlour, salon, sitting room, sitting-room), loĝoĉambro (living room, living-room, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

Faeroese		salur (lounge, parlour, salon, sitting-room), høll (auditorium, hall, lounge, parlour, salon, sitting-room). (various references)

Finnish		istunto (session), istuallaan (in a sitting position). (various references)

French		session, service, sédentaire, séance, en séance, en exercice, couveuse (sitter, sitting hen), asseyant. (various references)

Frisian		wenkeamer (living room, living-room, sitting-room), húskeamer (living-room, sitting-room). (various references)

German		sitzend (sedentarily, sedentary), Tagung (conference, congress, convention, meeting, session), Sitzung (caucus, council, meeting, session, visit). (various references)

Greek		συνεδρίαση (meeting, session). (various references)

Hebrew		ישיבה (abidance, dwelling, occupation, residence, settlement). (various references)

Hungarian		ülés (bottomless, lodge, lodge meeting, séance, seance, seat, session, thwart). (various references)

Irish		suí. (various references)

Italian		sessione (session, term), seduto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		座り (stability), 平ら (calm, flatness, level, plain, smooth). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すわり (stability). (various references)

Korean		착석 (seating). (various references)

Manx		nyn soie (seated), ny soie (aground, seated), ny hoie (seated). (various references)

Norwegian		sal (hall, lounge, parlour, saddle, salon, sitting room, sitting-room), dagligstue (livingroom, living-room, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

Papiamen		sala (living-room, lounge, parlour, salon, salt, sitting-room), sal (lounge, parlour, salon, sitting-room), hadrei (living-room, sitting-room). (various references)

Pig Latin		ittingsay.(various references)

Polish		salon (lounge, parlour, salon, sitting-room), sala (lounge, parlour, salon, sitting-room). (various references)

Portuguese		sessão (meeting, session, sit). (various references)

Romanian		sesiune (session), datã (bout, data, date, datum, day, facts, once, time), clocire (hatch, incubation), şedinţã (assembly, conference, meeting, session), şedere (abidance at, halt, indwelling, repair, residence, sojurn, stay), adunare (accumulation, addition, aggregate, assemblage, assembly, cluster, collection, conference, congregation, congress, conjunction, convention, convocation, crowd, footing up, gathering, heap, hoarding, meeting, muster, powwow, rally, reunion, rodeo, social, tot, turn out). (various references)

Russian		сидеть заседание, сидение (seat), заседание (meeting, sйance, seance, session). (various references)

Scottish		suidhe (sit down, sitting : dèan suidhe). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sedenje. (various references)

Spanish		sentada (sit-down strike, stay-in strike). (various references)

Swedish		session (court, session, term), sammanträde (assemblage, gathering, meeting, session). (various references)

Thai		การเข้านั่งประจำที่. (various references)

Turkish		poz verme, oturum (conclave, court, diet, forum, hearing, meeting, séance, session, sessional), oturma (fit, habitation, inhabitation, living, occupancy, occupation, residence, stay, staying), oturan (dweller, inhabitant, occupant, occupier, resident, sedentary), kuluçkalık, kuluçka süresi (incubation period). (various references)

Ukrainian		який сидить, який займається, сидячий (sedentary), сидіння (bottom, seat), висиджування курчат, засидання. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự ngồi, sự đặt ngồi buổi họp lần, lúc (instant, when, while), lứa trứng. (various references)

Welsh		eisteddle (pew, seat), eisteddiad (session). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	sedentarius, sessilis, sessio, sessionem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Matthew Chapter 27, Verse 36
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai kaqhmenoi ethroun auton ekei
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et sedentes servabant eum
Old English	990	West Saxon	& hyo beheolden hine sittende.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And thei seten, and kepten him;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And they sate and watched him there.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And sitting down they watched him there;
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And sitting down, they watched him there:
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And they were seated there watching him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
face sitting	2,700	sitting upskirt	44
pet sitting	387	lap sitting	44
sitting bull	274	face sitting clip	42
sitting	207	lesbian face sitting	42
baby sitting	194	bull hunkpapa sitting	41
house sitting	169	jean face sitting	39
sitting duck	134	face sitting smother	39
bbw face sitting	122	baby sitting job	37
dog sitting	96	girl sitting	36
face sitting video	93	chief sitting bull	36
face sitting gallery	86	pet sitting services	36
face sitting free	76	face japan sitting	35
face sitting story	73	face sitting art	34
face sitting picture	63	pantie hose face sitting	33
free face sitting pic	62	free face sitting picture	33
face sitting pic	50	woman face sitting	33
face sitting free gallery	50	sitting pretty	30
fem dom face sitting	49	sitting bull falls	29
smellys face sitting	49	sitting toilet	29
bay dock sitting	49	face sitting smothering	28
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Sitting Bull" by Jan Sundstedt Commentary: "Sitting Bull at Legoland Denmark."	"Sitting On The Bridge" by Neil Cummins Commentary: "Pigeons looking out over Warrington, UK."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Sitting

Definition: Sitting

Sitting

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definition: Sitting

Specialty Definition: Human positions

Synonyms: Sitting

Synonyms within Context: Sitting

Council

Preparation

Receptacle

Crosswords: Sitting

Modern Usage: Sitting

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Tongue Twisters

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Sitting

Books

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

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Familiar Quotations: Sitting

Arthur Schopenhauer

Author Unknown

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Sitting Bull

Thomas p Kempis

Tori Amos

Veda Upanishads

Historic Usage: Sitting

John Locke

US Constitution

Use in Literature: Sitting

Emma

Austen, Jane

Alice in Wonderland

Carroll, Lewis

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Douglas Adams

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Sitting

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Sitting

Ann Richards

Carol Burnett

James Van Praagh

Rush Limbaugh

Ted Koppel

Speeches: Sitting

Andrew Jackson

Usage Frequency: Sitting

Derived & Related Names: Sitting

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Modern Translation: Sitting

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

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