Definition of "sit"

sit¹

/sɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present sits, present participle sitting, simple past sat or (dated, poetic) sate, past participle sat or (archaic, dialectal) sitten
1. (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
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  He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.He is so fair, without any limit; his appearance shows well when he sits on the dais.
  15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, page 5, lines 120–121
  This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire.
  1593, Michael Drayton, “The Eighth Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […]; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London: Privately printed], 1870, page 64
2. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
3. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position.
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  The Yellow Sea sits between the Korean Peninsula and China. Audio (US)(file)
  2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
4. (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
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  And Moses said to […] the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Numbers 32:6
  Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii]
5. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
6. (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
7. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
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  The calamity sits heavy on us.
  1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […]
8. To be adjusted; to fit.
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  This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, / Sits not so easy on me as you think.
  c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene ii]
9. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
10. (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
11. (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
  Quotations
  I sat me weary on a pillar's base, / And leaned against the shaft
  1899, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, sat%20me%20weary%20on%20a%20pillar's%20base%2C%20%2F%20And%20leaned%20against%20the%20shaft%22&f=false page 43
12. (US, transitive, intransitive) To babysit.
  Quotations
  I saw […] Mrs. Turman, who sometimes sat Billy when Steff and I went out […]
  1980, Stephen King, The Mist
13. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
14. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
  Quotations
  The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Jeremiah 17:11
15. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
16. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
  Quotations
  like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits
  1689, John Selden, Table Talk
  Sits the wind in that quarter?
  1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […]
17. (obsolete, transitive) To keep one's seat when faced with (a blow, attack); to endure, to put up with.
  Quotations
  Louisa, who […] had but ill born the commencement of this conversation, could sit it no longer, and hastily throwing up the sash, complained of the intense heat of the room.
  1790, Amelia Opie, chapter 5, in Dangers of Coquetry, volume I
noun
plural sits
1. An act of sitting.
2. (mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
3. (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

sit²

/sɪt/

noun
plural sits
1. (informal) Short for situation.
  Quotations
  The increasing scope of the disaster was relayed in short, terse sentences whose brevity does not conceal the unfolding nightmare. […] In mid-afternoon at 1600: “Sit is getting worse; need help badly,” “have considerable number of wounded that are unable to evacuate.”
  2012, Gail Shisler, For Country and Corps: The Life of General Oliver P. Smith

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