What's the difference between lit and sit?

Lit


Definition:

  • () of Light
  • () of Light
  • () a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
  • (3) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
  • (4) The central lobby is lit by a over-storey whose windows actually open (far rarer than it should be), and protected from the sun by automatic blinds.
  • (5) Trafalgar Square in central London was lit up by flash bulbs as part of the demonstration against photographers being unfairly targeted by police after taking photos.
  • (6) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
  • (7) I shall never forget a cherry tree in Kyoto lit with braziers at dusk.
  • (8) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
  • (9) As Wayne Rooney placed the ball on the penalty spot, blew out his cheeks and prepared for the moment he had been waiting for all this time, Wembley lit up with a thousand and one flash bulbs.
  • (10) When the bombardment is particularly strong, they sit for hours in the windowless room lit by candles and strewn with mattresses.
  • (11) You have escape holes in the net, lit by LEDs so the fish can swim out.
  • (12) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
  • (13) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
  • (14) The answer lies in a mix of carrot and stick provision including investing in a more integrated public transport network, encouraging active transport in the form of walking and cycling, and enticing people out of their cars.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luminous umbrellas lit beneath high wire artist Jade Kindar-Martin.
  • (15) Significant qualitative and quantitative changes in the fatty acid composition occurred during incubation of epimastigotes derived from LIT medium in the triatomine artificial urine (TAU).
  • (16) First lit in 1817, the lighthouse opened to visitors for day tours and overnight stays earlier this year and has superb coastal walks and beaches nearby.
  • (17) Internal UN documents, marked “strictly confidential” and leaked to the Guardian, reveal how the UN’s internal complaints unit uncovered evidence the woman was abused with lit cigarettes and photographed lying on the ground.
  • (18) Two decades from now, the government imagines people will still be able to fly when they want (including from a third Heathrow runway), drive (but efficiently and perhaps electrically), and live in warm, well-lit (but far better insulated) homes.
  • (19) He has the right idea in combining old and new, like Fulgence Bienvenüe, who built the all-electric Paris Metro , yet lit his house by candles because they're beautiful.
  • (20) On the walls of brightly lit meeting rooms – each named after garment manufacturing zones around the city – are posters of laughing, thin, beautiful young Europeans of varying ethnic backgrounds wearing the bright, cheery, fashionable clothes of the company's brands.

Sit


Definition:

  • () obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
  • (v. t.) To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.
  • (v. t.) To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
  • (v. t.) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
  • (v. t.) To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.
  • (v. t.) To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.
  • (v. t.) To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally.
  • (v. t.) To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
  • (v. t.) To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
  • (v. t.) To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.
  • (v. t.) To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.
  • (v. t.) To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
  • (v. t.) To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively.
  • (v. t.) To suit (well / ill); to become.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) I’m not in charge of it but he’s stood up and presented that, and when Jenny, you know, criticised it, or raised some issues about grandparent carers – 3,700 of them he calculated – he said “Let’s sit down”.
  • (3) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
  • (4) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
  • (5) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
  • (6) Both former presidents Bush have said they will sit out the 2016 campaign, as has former presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
  • (7) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
  • (8) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (9) One is the right not to be impeded when they are going to the House of Commons to vote, which may partly explain why the police decided to arrest Green and raid his offices last week on Thursday, when the Commons was not sitting.
  • (10) The inverse relation between PGE2 and NE for the difference in hormone concentrations between supine and sitting (r=-0.44, p less than 0.05) may be explained by an inhibitory effect of PGE2 on renal NE release, earlier observed in experiments in vitro.
  • (11) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
  • (12) If there’s a fire in the house, you don’t sit there saying we’re going to wait until the fire commissioner comes,” she said.
  • (13) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
  • (14) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
  • (15) I could walk around more freely than in North Korea, but it was very apparent I was being watched.” The country consistently sits at the bottom of global freedom rankings, in the company of North Korea and Eritrea.
  • (16) And it means the Foreign Office dealing with those in the Middle East and North Africa who are on the side of democracy and human rights, not sitting down to tea with torturers.
  • (17) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
  • (18) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
  • (19) Egypt has been without a sitting lower house of parliament since summer 2012, when it was dissolved by the country's supreme court .
  • (20) On the 18th I will be sitting down to the university Christmas meal two hours after the results are passed on to me.

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