“sits” is a form of
sit
/sɪt/ verb, noun, proper noun
Forms sits sitting sat sate sitten sattest
- verb (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. “After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.”
- verb (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position. “I asked him to sit.”
- verb (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position. “The dishes are still sitting on the table!”
- verb (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
- verb (government) To be a member of a deliberative body. “I currently sit on a standards committee.”
- verb (government, law) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session. “In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session?”
- verb To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
- verb To be adjusted; to fit. “Your new coat sits well.”
- noun An act of sitting.
- noun (mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
- noun (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
- proper noun A surname.
Synonyms
be seated sit down sit up take a seat be be accept be welcome be well receive seat be found be situate sit around model pose posture ride baby-sit
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”).
Cognate with West Frisian sitte, Low German sitten, Dutch zitten, German sitzen, Swedish sitta, Norwegian Bokmål sitte, Norwegian Nynorsk sitja, Danish sidde, Faroese sita, Icelandic sitja; and with Irish suigh, Latin sedeo, Russian сиде́ть (sidétʹ).
From the Chinese surname, from Cantonese 薛 (sit³).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; --said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground.
- verb To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
- verb To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well.
- verb To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; --used reflexively.
Etymology [OE. sitten, AS. sittan; akin to OS. sittian, OFries. sitta, D. zitten, G. sitzen, OHG. sizzen, Icel. sitja, SW. sitta, Dan. sidde, Goth. sitan, Russ. sidiete, L. sedere, Gr. sad. sq. root154. Cf. Assess,Assize, Cathedral, Chair, Dissident, Excise, Insidious, Possess, Reside, Sanhedrim, Seance, Seat, n., Sedate, 4th Sell, Siege, Session, Set, v. t., Sizar, Size, Subsidy.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “sit”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details