sitting

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

   “Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.”

2. isim A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.

   “"It's not always easy to get him, and of course a small fee, a guinea I think, is usual, but if you wanted a sitting I could work it." "You think him genuine?" Atkinson shrugged his shoulders.”

3. isim A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
4. isim The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
5. isim A legislative session (in the sense of meeting, and not period).
6. isim The incubation of eggs by a bird.
7. isim A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

   “we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs”

8. isim An uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

   “I read it in two sittings.”

9. fiil present participle and gerund of sit
10. sıfat Executed from a sitting position.
11. sıfat Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

    “It is an iron rule of French politics that sitting presidents are detested.”