Definition of "sitting" []

• The act or position of one that sits. (noun)
• A period during which one is seated and occupied with a single activity, such as posing for a portrait or reading a book. (noun)
• A session, as of a legislature or court. (noun)
• An act, condition, or period of brooding on eggs by a bird; incubation. (noun)
• The number of eggs under a brooding bird; a clutch. (noun)

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• "There's only one thing worse than sitting through THE SWARM..sitting through the extended cut of THE SWARM!"
• "For example, in ˜Socrates is sitting,™ ˜sitting™ indicates Socrates 'position."
• "He says he's fighting his sex sting guilty plea, and he says he's not going to spend the rest of his term sitting around, tapping his feet."