# sitting
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɪtɪŋ/
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* Rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ
* Hyphenation: sit‧ting

### Etymology 1

From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch zitting (“a sitting, session”), German Sitzung (“a sitting, session”), Swedish sittning (“a sitting, session”).

#### Noun

sitting (plural sittings)
* A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
    Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
    The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
* A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
** 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:"It's not always easy to get him, and of course a small fee, a guinea I think, is usual, but if you wanted a sitting I could work it." "You think him genuine?" Atkinson shrugged his shoulders.
* A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
* The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
* A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
* The incubation of eggs by a bird.
* A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
    we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
* Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

##### Derived terms

* fence-sitting
* in one sitting
* trip sitting
* W-sitting

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English sittinge, sittynge, variant of sittinde, sittende, sittande, from Old English sittende (“sitting”), from Proto-Germanic *sitjandz (“sitting”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), equivalent to sit +‎ -ing. Cognate with West Frisian sittend (“sitting”), Dutch zittend (“sitting”), German sitzend (“sitting”), Swedish sittande (“sitting”), Icelandic sitjandi (“sitting”).

#### Verb

sitting
* present participle and gerund of sit

##### Derived terms

* sitting pretty

#### Adjective

sitting (not comparable)
* Executed from a sitting position.
* Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
** 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. […] Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
** 2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian‎:It is an iron rule of French politics that sitting presidents are detested.

##### Derived terms

* non-sitting
* nonsitting
* sitting duck
* sitting service
* sitting tenant

### References

* “sitting”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* Gittins

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* sitjing

### Noun

sitting f (definite singular sittinga, indefinite plural sittingar, definite plural sittingane)
* the act of sitting

### References

* “sitting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.