Sit

Verb1.sit - be seated
lounge - sit or recline comfortably; "He was lounging on the sofa"
sprawl - sit or lie with one's limbs spread out
perch, roost, rest - sit, as on a branch; "The birds perched high in the treee"
seat, sit down, sit - show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"
hunker, hunker down, scrunch up, squat, scrunch, crouch - sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
sit down, sit - take a seat
sit down, sit - take a seat
sit out - endure to the end
lie - be lying, be prostrate; be in a horizontal position; "The sick man lay in bed all day"; "the books are lying on the shelf"
stand, stand up - be standing; be upright; "We had to stand for the entire performance!"
2.sit - sit around, often unused; "The object sat in the corner"
be - occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?"
3.sit - take a seat
sit, sit down - be seated
change posture - undergo a change in bodily posture
4.sit - be in session; "When does the court of law sit?"
convene - meet formally; "The council convened last week"
5.sit - assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often"
artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
display, exhibit, expose - to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship"
ramp - be rampant; "the lion is rampant in this heraldic depiction"
6.sit - sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; "She never sat a horse!"; "Did you ever ride a camel?"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare"
horseback riding, riding - riding a horse as a means of transportation
go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"
override - ride (a horse) too hard
ride herd - driving animals such as horses and cattle while riding along with them; "Joe was riding herd during the day"
outride - ride better, faster, or further than; "The champion bicyclist outrode all his competitors"
ride horseback - ride on horseback
prance - cause (a horse) to bound spring forward
canter - ride at a cantering pace; "He cantered the horse across the meadow"
gallop, extend - cause to move at full gallop; "Did you gallop the horse just now?"
ride - sit on and control a vehicle; "He rides his bicycle to work every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"
7.sit - work or act as a baby-sitter; "I cannot baby-sit tonight; I have too much homework to do"
guard - to keep watch over; "there would be men guarding the horses"
8.sit - show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith"
lay, place, put, set, position, pose - put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point"
sit, sit down - be seated
reseat - show to a different seat; "The usher insisted on reseating us"

 

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