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Sit

verb

(past sat; past part. sat; pres. part. sitting)

Be seated. Synonym: sit down.

Be around, often idly or without specific purpose. Synonym: sit around. "We sat around chatting for another hour"

Take a seat. Synonym: sit down.

Be in session.

Assume a posture as for artistic purposes. Synonyms: model, pose, posture.

Sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions. Synonym: ride. "Did you ever ride a camel?" , "The girl liked to drive the young mare"

Be located or situated somewhere.

Work or act as a baby-sitter. Synonym: baby-sit.

Show to a seat; assign a seat for. Synonyms: seat, sit down.

10.

Serve in a specific professional capacity. "She sat on the jury"

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... Kingthorpe.' Bessie kissed her. 'Yes, dear, I wish with all my heart to accept your kind mother's invitation; though I know, in my secret soul, that it is foolishness for me to see the inside of a happy home, to sit beside a hospitable hearth, when it is my mission in life to be a dependent in the house of a stranger. If you had half a dozen small sisters, now, and your people would engage me as a ...

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... still to be tried, the legislature, convened under the new charter, created a regular tribunal for the trial of criminal as well as civil cases, and the court of commissioners rose to sit no more. The first session of the regular court for the trial of criminal cases was to be held in January, and this delay was favourable to reflection and to the recovery of the public reason. Other causes ...

— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) • John Marshall

... Commissioners of the General Assembly, to sit at Edinburgh anent Expectants to ...

— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland

... Carley for all the clamoring sensations of stiff, sore muscles. It made her ashamed that she could not fling herself into this adventure with all her heart. Carley essayed to sit up. "Oh, I'm afraid my anatomy has become disconnected!... Glenn, do I look a sight?" She never would have asked him that if she had not known she could bear inspection at ...

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