What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Session vs Sitting - What's the difference?

session | sitting |

As nouns the difference between session and sitting

is that session is a period devoted to a particular activity while sitting is a period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

As a verb sitting is

present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective sitting is

executed from a sitting position.

session

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A period devoted to a particular activity.
    • a training session
    "Are we having a recording session'''?" / "Yes. We've even got some '''session musicians to provide some brass."
  • *
  • A meeting of a council, court, or legislative body to conduct its business.
    • This court is now in session .
  • (computing) The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
    • Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session .
  • (cricket) Any of the three scheduled two hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
  • (obsolete) The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
  • * Hooker
    • So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.
  • * Tennyson
    • But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, / Leaped from her session on his lap, and stood.

    Derived terms

    * bull session * session ale, session beer, session bitter * sessionless

    Anagrams

    * ----

    sitting

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
  • A legislative session.
  • The act (of a bird) of incubating eggs; the clutch of eggs under a brooding bird.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * sitting pretty

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Executed from a sitting position.
  • Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

    Derived terms

    * sitting duck * sitting tenant

    Statistics

    *