[ noun ] the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians <noun.time>
Sat \Sat\ (s[a^]t), imp. of {Sit}. [Written also {sate}.]
Sit \Sit\, v. i. [imp. {Sat}({Sate}, archaic); p. p. {Sat} ({Sitten}, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sitting}.] [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. ???, Skr. sad. [root]154. 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}.] 1. 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.
And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat. --Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.)
I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. --Shak.
2. To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
3. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
And Moses said to . . . the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here? --Num. xxxii. 6.
Like a demigod here sit I in the sky. --Shak.
4. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.
The calamity sits heavy on us. --Jer. Taylor.
5. To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.
This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. --Shak.
6. To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
7. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. --Jer. xvii. 11.
8. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. --Selden.
Sits the wind in that quarter? --Sir W. Scott.
9. To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.
10. To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.
11. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
{To sit at}, to rest under; to be subject to. [Obs.] ``A farmer can not husband his ground so well if he sit at a great rent''. --Bacon.
{To sit at meat} or {To sit at table}, to be at table for eating.
{To sit down}. (a) To place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down when tired. (b) To begin a siege; as, the enemy sat down before the town. (c) To settle; to fix a permanent abode. --Spenser. (d) To rest; to cease as satisfied. ``Here we can not sit down, but still proceed in our search.'' --Rogers.
{To sit for a fellowship}, to offer one's self for examination with a view to obtaining a fellowship. [Eng. Univ.]
{To sit out}. (a) To be without engagement or employment. [Obs.] --Bp. Sanderson. (b) To outstay.
{To sit under}, to be under the instruction or ministrations of; as, to sit under a preacher; to sit under good preaching.
{To sit up}, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from sleep; to sit with the body upright; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person. ``He that was dead sat up, and began to speak.'' --Luke vii. 15.
Sit \Sit\, v. i. [imp. {Sat}({Sate}, archaic); p. p. {Sat} ({Sitten}, obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sitting}.] [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. ???, Skr. sad. [root]154. 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}.] 1. 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.
And he came and took the book put of the right hand of him that sate upon the seat. --Bible (1551) (Rev. v. 7.)
I pray you, jest, sir, as you sit at dinner. --Shak.
2. To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc.
3. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
And Moses said to . . . the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here? --Num. xxxii. 6.
Like a demigod here sit I in the sky. --Shak.
4. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him.
The calamity sits heavy on us. --Jer. Taylor.
5. To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill.
This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think. --Shak.
6. To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
7. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. --Jer. xvii. 11.
8. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
Like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits. --Selden.
Sits the wind in that quarter? --Sir W. Scott.
9. To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress.
10. To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night.
11. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter.
{To sit at}, to rest under; to be subject to. [Obs.] ``A farmer can not husband his ground so well if he sit at a great rent''. --Bacon.
{To sit at meat} or {To sit at table}, to be at table for eating.
{To sit down}. (a) To place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down when tired. (b) To begin a siege; as, the enemy sat down before the town. (c) To settle; to fix a permanent abode. --Spenser. (d) To rest; to cease as satisfied. ``Here we can not sit down, but still proceed in our search.'' --Rogers.
{To sit for a fellowship}, to offer one's self for examination with a view to obtaining a fellowship. [Eng. Univ.]
{To sit out}. (a) To be without engagement or employment. [Obs.] --Bp. Sanderson. (b) To outstay.
{To sit under}, to be under the instruction or ministrations of; as, to sit under a preacher; to sit under good preaching.
{To sit up}, to rise from, or refrain from, a recumbent posture or from sleep; to sit with the body upright; as, to sit up late at night; also, to watch; as, to sit up with a sick person. ``He that was dead sat up, and began to speak.'' --Luke vii. 15.
"Let's say I sat each of you down in front of a red button and a black button," he said.
Responded Anderson: "They're also paying lower than any other hospitals in the area." The agreement was reached early Thursday after negotiators sat through two consecutive, 17-hour bargaining sessions.
Dukakis worked on his speech Wednesday after meeting briefly with Jackson, his former rival, to discuss the fall campaign. Dukakis sat in an easy chair in the bedroom of his hotel suite revising a draft of his speech with a pen.
But it has sat idle until recently while the companies and the community fought over how the crude would be moved south to Los Angeles.
Police gave no motive for the slaying of Angela de Guerrero, 32. She was shot four times as she sat in her small sedan outside a supermarket in Bogota's northern suburbs by two gunmen who fled in a white car.
On Wednesday, Sri Lankan industrialist Kanagasabai Gunaratnam was slain by two men on a motorcycle as he sat in his car in Colombo, a company spokesman said on condition of anonymity.
Asked if being the candidate's cousin is a great part, she replied: "It certainly is." On Wednesday night, Miss Dukakis sat among the New Jersey delegation as Dukakis formally won the nomination.
The 31 defendants in custody sat or stood in three cages in the courtroom, a renovated exhibition hall.
There, they sat on beds, intrigued by the small television sets at the side.
But then he sat down and chatted for 20 minutes about China's open-door policy and investment prospects. We received much the same treatment from the intent-looking Russian woman who rushed in waving a sheaf of forms.
Mrs. Cottam wept quietly throughout the opening arguments, while her husband, a former minister in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, sat stoically beside her.
Chai, 23, wore a pink shirt and sat at a table with white flowers and a candle to commemorate those who died in the pro-democracy movement.
Joanna's father, Rolando Noda, grabbed his shotgun and ran toward the police car where Quiles sat handcuffed after his arrest, but an officer stopped him and persuaded him to put the gun away.
"He wouldn't let you turn on the air conditioning in the summer," Corts said. "You just sat there and wiped your brow.
Around the table, the dealers from state banks sat mute.
The participants just sat and talked.
In the village, a much-shelled collection of mud-brick ruins long since abandoned by civilians, uniformed mujahedeen sat atop tanks and armored personnel carriers, waving banners and chanting in Farsi: "Today Mehran, tomorrow Tehran."
A closed-circuit TV set sat unused in a corner.
Dumaine's car was found in December, police said, and sat on the lot of Quality Towing in Las Vegas about four months before workers noticed a strong odor and checked the trunk.
The government and the opposition sat down at the same table to seek a common course for Poland's future, but Solidarity chairman Lech Walesa cautioned that deep distrust hangs over the historic talks.
I must have sat there 20 times and each time leaving is more difficult.
Jane, a 33-year-old attorney, sat at her 39th-floor desk as the shock wave rumbled through.
The women then sat on the ground, blocking the entance to the U.N. office.
But "if we all sat back and hoped our kids would read and reread `Alice in Wonderland,' we'd be waiting a long time," he says.
We have now sat through 14 Labour court conciliations and the proposals have been rejected by the unions.
The Madison Square Garden audience Thursday night forgot the Elephant Man's bones, plastic surgery and other controversies and sat, mesmerized by Michael Jackson the performer.
"She's gotten what she wanted out of the case, millions of dollars in publicity, while my client has sat in jail," Montes said.
"I sat and stared at this kid.
The Polish leader, who wore a gray business suit and his familiar dark glasses, spoke in soft tones as he sat on a green velvet settee beneath a huge oil painting of a winter scene by 19th century Polish artist Julian Falat.
Former President Richard Nixon gave an encouraging talk to several hundred drug rehabilitation patients, then sat down at the piano.