transcription, транскрипция: [ sɪt ]
( sits, sitting, sat)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
If you are sitting somewhere, for example in a chair, your bottom is resting on the chair and the upper part of your body is upright.
Mother was sitting in her chair in the kitchen...
They sat there in shock and disbelief...
They had been sitting watching television...
He was unable to sit still for longer than a few minutes.
VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv , V , V adj , also V
2.
When you sit somewhere, you lower your body until you are sitting on something.
He set the cases against a wall and sat on them...
When you stand, they stand; when you sit, they sit.
VERB : V prep / adv , V
•
Sit down means the same as sit .
I sat down, stunned...
Hughes beckoned him to sit down on the sofa.
PHRASAL VERB : V P , V P prep / adv
3.
If you sit someone somewhere, you tell them to sit there or put them in a sitting position.
He used to sit me on his lap...
VERB : V n prep / adv
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To sit someone down somewhere means to sit them there.
She helped him out of the water and sat him down on the rock...
They sat me down and had a serious discussion about sex.
PHRASAL VERB : V n P prep / adv , V n P
4.
If you sit an examination, you do it. ( BRIT; in AM, use take )
June and July are the traditional months for sitting exams.
= take
VERB : V n
5.
If you sit on a committee or other official group, you are a member of it.
He was asked to sit on numerous committees...
VERB : no cont , V on/in n
6.
When a parliament, legislature, court, or other official body sits , it officially carries out its work. ( FORMAL )
Parliament sits for only 28 weeks out of 52...
VERB : V
7.
If a building or object sits in a particular place, it is in that place. ( WRITTEN )
Our new house sat next to a stream...
On the table sat a box decorated with little pearl triangles.
= stand
VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv
8.
see also sitting
9.
If you sit tight , you remain in the same place or situation and do not take any action, usually because you are waiting for something to happen.
Sit tight. I’ll be right back...
to sit on the fence: see fence
PHRASE : V inflects