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Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
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An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
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(of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
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After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
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(of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
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I asked him to sit.
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(of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
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The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
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To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
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To be a member of a deliberative body.
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I currently sit on a standards committee.
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Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
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In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.
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To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
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To be adjusted; to fit.
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Your new coat sits well.
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(of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
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How will this new contract sit with the workers?
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(causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
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Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
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To accommodate in seats; to seat.
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The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
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To babysit.
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I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
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To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
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To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
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To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
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I'm sitting for a painter this evening.
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To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
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Short for situation.
Examples of sits in a Sentence
The bishop sits in the House of Lords, but has no vote.
Look, she sits sideways!
There she sits and her skirt dangles....
Quinn sits around knowing what we're doing, and the world is treating him like some minor failed unemployed scientist.
Lake Erie sits north of Ohio for a long stretch so to get into Canada going east; he'd enter in New York State, around Niagara Falls.
The house sits on a slight rise, at the end of a long driveway and I had never visited at night.
A supreme court of appeal, which also discharges the functions of a court of cassation, sits at Canea.
He is remunerated for his services by a fixed fee for each day the court sits.
He sits FIG.
The barrister sits without a jury.
Of course the hen sits with her legs doubled up under her, as does any other long-legged bird.
They also have a tandem tricycle where the stoker sits in front of the pilot.
For example, if you have a three of clubs faceup and a four of diamonds faceup, you can move the three so it sits on top of the four.
Why she sits there in the near darkness of the kitchen, I'm not sure.
The judge sits as the official and commissary of the lord warden, just as the judge of the high court of admiralty sat as the official and commissary of the lord high admiral.
The governing synod now sits at St Petersburg, but appoints delegated commissions, with a portion of its jurisdiction, in Moscow and Georgia.
Seen in front, its white face, striped with black, and broad black gorget attract attention as it sits, often motionless, on the rocks; while in flight the white of the lower part of the back and white band across the wings are no less conspicuous even at a distance.
The acting justice sits normally alone to hear causes in his canton of the peace (uchastok), but, at the request of both parties to a suit, he may call in an honorary justice as assessor or substitute.
If a rich woman sits down with them at table, and they see a poor woman, they shall invite her also to eat with them, and not put her to shame because of the rich one."
All this jurisdiction has long been obsolete, but the court still sits occasionally for registering gifts made to the city.
The council sits for a statutory period of three years.
The provincial court, consisting of a judge president and three puisne judges, sits in Pietermaritzburg and has jurisdiction over all causes whether affecting natives or Europeans.
This native high court consists of a judge-president and two other judges, and sits in full court at Maritzburg not less than three months and at Eshowe not less than once in the year.
The provincial council, which has strictly local powers, sits for a statutory period of three years.
A local division of the Supreme Court, formerly known as the Witwatersrand high court (consisting of one or more judges of the Supreme Court) sits permanently at Johannesburg and has civil and criminal jurisdiction throughout the Rand.
The most important tool, however, is the bench or " chair " on which the workman sits, which serves as his lathe.
The houses of the people contained but little furniture; chairs, tables and couches, however, were used, and Assur-bani-pal is represented as reclining on his couch at a meal while his wife sits on a chair beside him.
On its topmost bough sits an eagle, between whom and Nidhug the squirrel Ratatbskr runs to and fro trying to provoke strife.
This crushing may take place either from above or below, producing what are known as " creeps " or " sits."
This accident generally arises from an improper size of pillars; some roofs, however, are so difficult to support that sits take place where the half of the coal is left in pillars.
The state legislature, or General Assembly, composed of a senate and a house of representatives, sits biennially at Des Moines.
Justice is administered by petty sessions in the six magisterial districts into which the possession is divided, with a central court at Port Moresby (which, however, sits elsewhere as necessary) having the jurisdiction of a supreme court, from which in certain cases an appeal lies to the supreme court of Queensland.
Christ, received into heaven, sits at the right hand of Ialdabaoth, whom he deprives of glory and receives the souls that are his own.
If such a one says ` I am an Athravan ' he lies, call him not Athravan, noble Zarathustra, said Ahura Mazda, but thou shouldst call him priest, noble Zarathustra, who sits awake the whole night through and yearns for holy wisdom that enables man to stand on death's bridge fearless and with happy heart, the wisdom whereby he attains the holy and glorious world of paradise."
During the period when Parliament is not sitting, a permanent commission of 24 members (16 from the deputies and 8 from the senators) sits to enact urgent measures which have temporarily the force of law.
The tribunals of the republic are the Supreme Court of Justice, which sits at Brno and is the court of final appeal both in civil and criminal causes, two high courts sitting at Prague and Brno respectively, 33 provincial courts and 410 district courts, all of which possess j urisdiction in both civil and criminal causes.
Commercial cases are dealt with by the ordinary courts, except at Prague where a special commercial court sits.
At Prague there sits also an electoral court which decides upon the validity of disputed elections or forfeiture of seats and other questions relating to parliamentary or elected bodies.
The supreme court holds one general term each year at Concord and on the first Tuesday of every month except July and August sits to hear arguments, make orders and render decisions; the superior court holds one or two sessions a year in every county.
The court sits at Washington from October to July in every year.
Orkney forms a sheriffdom with Shetland and Caithness, and a resident sheriff-substitute sits at Kirkwall.
On the first alarm of danger it sits erect to reconnoitre, when it either seeks concealment by clapping close to the ground, or takes to flight.
A court of appeal for the whole province sits at Celle, and there are eight superior courts.
It sits crouching on the ground during the day, with its bill pointing in the air, a position from which it is not easily roused, and even when it takes wing, its flight is neither swift nor long sustained.
A senator sits for eight years unless a dissolution is ordered, and no one is eligible until he is forty years of age.
It sits in four criminal and six civil senates, each consisting of seven judges, one of whom is the president.
A kind of plover, Pluvianus aegyptius, often sits upon basking crocodiles, and, since the latter often rest with gaping mouth, it is possible that these agile birds do pick the reptiles' teeth in search of parasites.
The grand cadi, who must belong to the sect of the Hanifis, sits at Cairo, and is aided by a council of Ulema or learned men.
In a shrine sits Osiris, the ruler and judge of the dead, accompanied by forty-two assessors; and before him stands the balance on which the heart of the deceased man is to be weighed against Truth; Thoth stands behind and registers the result.
There are two intermediary Courts of Appeal (Overret), one in Copenhagen, another in Viborg; the Supreme Court of Appeal (Hojesteret) sits at Copenhagen.