sit out

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance.

   “I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit out.”

2. fiil To await the cessation of, without taking part.

   “A large proportion of the millhands sat out the strike in their native villages, sometimes hundreds of miles from Bombay; the remainder survived precariously in the city with the help of casual labour and rations of grain […]”

3. fiil To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.
4. fiil To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
5. fiil To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.
6. isim Alternative form of sitout.

   “During seven NAACP-sponsored school “sit outs” or “holidays” in Jacksonville more than 108,000 children had been kept home by their parents to protest segregated schools and other inequities.”

7. isim Alternative form of sit-out.

   “The parent says, “If you don't start picking up your dirty clothes by the time I count to three, you will need to take a sit out.””