(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.
Smit
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Smite.
() 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Smite.
() of Smite
() of Smite
Example Sentences:
(1) The male of Ctenoparia inopinata Rothschild 1909 is described, and for the first time, Ctenoparia jordani Smit 1955 and C. topali Smit 1963 are cited from Chile.
(2) 28 species or subspecies are noted; 6 are new for this country [Echidnophaga gallinacea (Westwood, 1875), Xenopsylla blanci Smit, 1957?, Ischnopsyllus intermedius (Rothschild, 1898), I. octactenus (Kolenati, 1856), Nycteridopsylla ancyluris Jordan, 1942 and N. pentactena (Kolenati, 1856)].
(3) Finally a normal SMIT result was associated with a significantly improved chance of conception (39 versus 10% at 12 months), particularly with artificial insemination, suggesting undisclosed coital failure as the cause of the negative PCT.
(4) An ambitious project to showcase the prehistory of the south coast of England, famous for its marine fossils from ammonites to giant sea reptiles, has attracted support from David Attenborough and Eden Project founder Tim Smit.
(5) It has a diameter of about 100A, in agreement with the results of electron microscope observations (Smit, Kamio, and Nikaido (1975) J. Bacteriol.
(6) Smit said Brexit could provide a boost to the UK’s food manufacturers as producers try to offset import costs by bringing raw materials and processing them here rather than buying in finished items from abroad.
(7) 247:3962-3972, 1972; J. Smit, Y. Kamio, and H. Nikaido, J. Bacteriol.
(8) The authors point out, for the first time in France, a selvatic Xenopsylla: X. cunicularis Smit, 1957, parasite on the European rabbit, well-known in Morocco and Spain until today.
(9) Under all conditions tested, a positive correlation was observed between the percentage of fibrillated cells and the ability of these bacteria to form caps and to adhere to glass, suggesting that fibrils play a role in the attachment of Rhizobium leguminosarum to pea root hair tips and to glass (G. Smit, J. W. Kijne, and B. J. J. Lugtenberg, J. Bacteriol.
(10) Tim Smit, the chief executive of the Eden Project , said it was a "pioneering" scheme.
(11) Smit, who was a trustee of the project, had "sort of not let me not do it".
(12) The attachment characteristics of these manganese-limited rhizobia were compared with those of carbon-limited rhizobia (G. Smit, J. W. Kijne, and B. J. J. Lugtenberg, J. Bacteriol.
(13) Allan listed and responded to eight claims isolated from the report written by researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
(14) The British jobs Brexit makes hard to fill Read more Harry Smit, a senior analyst at Rabobank and author of Future Food Security in the UK: the Impact of the Brexit on Food and Agribusiness in Europe and Beyond , said: “ UK consumers should brace themselves for some price rises – perhaps by as much as 8% – on those products for which Britain is almost solely reliant on the EU.” Smit’s arguments counter claims from Brexit supporters that food prices will fall as high tariffs on goods imported from outside the EU are removed.
(15) Five to follow Verena Smit Aldo the Band Feira Plana Os Gêmeos Amem!Amém
(16) Helen Smits, M.D., one of the few women to head a federal health bureaucracy, looks for ways to improve the quality, while reducing the cost, of health care.
(17) Its director, Alfredson, went on to make the 2011 spy drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , while Let the Right One In was later relocated to New Mexico and remade in 2010 as Let Me In , starring Chloë Grace Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
(18) The human papillomavirus (HPV) type 16 enhancer-promoter has been shown to be active in human fibroblasts with a deletion on the short arm of one chromosome 11 (karyotype 46,del(11)(p11.11p15.1)) but is virtually inactive in diploid human fibroblasts (Smits, Smits, Jebbink, and ter Schegget, 1990b, Virology, 176, 158-165).
(19) The cast combines known stars (Jimmy Smits) and newcomers such as Mamadou Athie.
(20) mesoides from the High Tatras the authors consider the subspecies Rhadinopsylla mesoides skuratowiczi Bartkowska, 1972 to be a synonym of Rhadinopsylla mesoides Smit, 1957.