on chair, etc.
1 to rest your weight on your bottom with your back upright, for example on/in a chair: [V, usually +adv./prep.] She sat and stared at the letter in front of her. * May I sit here? * Just sit still! * He went and sat beside her. * She was sitting at her desk. * She always sits in that chair. * It's too cold to sit outside. * [V-ing] We sat talking for hours.
seealsoSITDOWN
2 [VN+adv./prep.] to put sb in a sitting position:
He lifted the child and sat her on the wall. * She sat him down in front of the fire with a hot drink.
of things
3 to be in a particular place: [V, +adv./prep.] A large bus was sitting outside. * The pot was sitting in a pool of water. * The jacket sat beautifully on her shoulders (= fitted well). * [V-ADJ] The box sat unopened on the shelf.
have official position
4 [V] ~ in / on / for sth
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sit is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does sit appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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