sitting

Meanings

Noun

• A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
• A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
• A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
• The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
• A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
• The incubation of eggs by a bird.
• A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
• Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

Verb

• Present participle of sit

Adjective

• Executed from a sitting position.
• Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

Origin

• From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with {{cog|nl|zitting|t=a sitting,
• , German Sitzung, Swedish sittning.
• From Middle English sittinge, sittynge, variant of sittinde, sittende, sittande, from Old English sittende, from Proto-Germanic *sitjandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, equivalent to sit + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian sittend, Dutch zittend, German sitzend, Swedish sittande, Icelandic sitjandi.