(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.
Squatter
Definition:
(n.) One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.
(n.) See Squat snipe, under Squat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Households in two squatter communities--Meiyo and Karton Kassala--were studied by observation and by interview.
(2) At least two successive Kenyan governments have threatened the Sengwer communities and forest squatters with evictions.
(3) The tower was first occupied by squatters in 2007, and eventually became home to more than 1,200 families .
(4) This study is part of a larger epidemiological study concerned with the health status of children under the age of five carried out in the squatter settlement of Rocinha, and focuses on the nutritional profile of a representative sample of 591 children.
(5) It was, I recall, an anarchic traffic jam of ex-squatters, ravers, and proponents of free love that chuntered slowly and messily through the byways and sometimes the highways of Thatcher’s Britain.
(6) The ventilatory capacity of the more active children, including those who have lived all their lives in squatter huts on the hillsides, is on average 8 per cent larger than for the inactive children including those who have lived all their lives in tenement flats with lifts.
(7) Who else would have decided to leave the relative cosiness of Ditchling Village for Hopkins Crank, an unreconstructed Georgian squatter's cottage and outbuildings on Ditchling Common?
(8) He promised a crackdown on squatters, a mandatory six-month jail sentence for anyone threatening with a knife, and a promise to allow homeowners and shopowners to use reasonable force to protect their properties.
(9) More than 20 homeless people have been sheltering there since the squatters moved into the property in Belgravia on 23 January .
(10) A judge has ordered the eviction of a group of squatters from a £15m property in central London bought by a Russian oligarch that they have been occupying for the past week.
(11) Ruling the registrar had made "an error of law", the judge said section 144 did not apply to squatter's title because it was enacted to deal with householders who needed rapid police help to get rid of squatters who had moved into their homes whilst they were away.
(12) Local authorities took what we thought were vicious steps to repel squatters, putting cement down toilets or ripping them out altogether, but if you could access a property it became possible to do a deal with the council and become a licensed squat, permitted to stay there, often for years.
(13) Those properties being targeted have fallen into major disrepair and, in many cases, have been occupied by squatters and attracted antisocial behaviour such as loud parties and drug abuse.
(14) Squatters inside the building, a former police station in Beak Street, off Regent Street, accused police of heavy-handed tactics after they were led out by officers who forced their way in after a tense standoff lasting more than three hours.
(15) This study explores the extent of mild to significant malnutrition in the squatter settlement of Kampung Baiduri located adjacent to an industrial area in Petaling Jaya.
(16) If you are in this position, your rights also supersede what are commonly known as "squatters' rights".
(17) The preschool component provides education, food supplements, and medical checkups and treatment to children in the squatter settlements.
(18) The result has been that more than 1,000 people living near the town of Eldoret have been classed as squatters and forced to flee what they say has been government harassment, intimidation and arrest.
(19) If it is a property that is occupied, or soon to be occupied, then the criminal law will apply and the squatters can be guilty of an offence under Section 7 of the Criminal Law Act if they fail to leave your premises after being asked to do so.
(20) An anthropometric study evaluated the nutritional state of pre-school children in the Site C squatter area of Khayelitsha township in Cape Town.