sitting
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
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.
- 2.
A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
- 3.
A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
- 4.
The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
- 5.
A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
- 6.
The incubation of eggs by a bird.
- 7.
A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
- 8.
(idiomatic)An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
I read it in two sittings.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(form of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of sit
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable)Executed from a sitting position.
- 2.
(not comparable)Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
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L327846 From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with zitting, Sitzung, sittning.