Sit vs Ait - What's the difference?
sit | ait |
(of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs (especially the upper legs) are supported by some object.
(of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
(of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
* Bible, Numbers xxxii. 6
* Shakespeare
(government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
(legal, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
* Jeremy Taylor
To be adjusted; to fit.
* Shakespeare
(of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
* 1874 , , (w), XX
To accommodate in seats; to seat.
shortened form of babysit.
(US) To babysit
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
* Bible, Jer. xvii. 11
To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
* Selden
* Sir Walter Scott
(rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
An island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.
* R. Hodges (1649)
* 1833 , , Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life trans. John Oxenford, book 9,
* 1853 , , Bleak House , ch. 1,
(Scotland) An oat.
As nouns the difference between sit and ait
is that sit is an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation while ait is an island in a river, especially the River Thames in England.As a verb sit
is to be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs (especially the upper legs) are supported by some object.sit
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Verb
- After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
- I asked him to sit .
- The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
- And Moses said to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
- Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
- I currently sit on a standards committee.
- In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.
- The calamity sits heavy on us.
- Your new coat sits well.
- This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, / Sits not so easy on me as you think.
- How will this new contract sit with the workers?
- I don’t think it will sit well.
- The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.
- Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
- The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
- I sat me weary on a pillar's base, / And leaned against the shaft
- I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.
- I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
- The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
- I'm sitting for a painter this evening.
- like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits
- Sits the wind in that quarter?
Conjugation
* An obsolete form of the simple past is (m) and of the past participle is (m).Entryabout past simple sate in Webster's dictionary
Quotations
* (English Citations of "sit")Synonyms
* (be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported) be seated * (move oneself into such a position) be seated, sit down (from a standing position), sit up (from a prone position), take a seat * be, be found, be situated * (be a member of a deliberative body) * (be accepted) be accepted, be welcomed, be well received * (to accommodate in seats) seatDerived terms
* sit around * sit back * sit by * sit down * sit for * sit idly by * sit in * sit-in * sit-inner * sit in for * sit in on * sit on * sit out * sit shivah * sit through * sit tight * sit up * sit up withSee also
* sit around * sit back * sit by * sit down * sit-in * sit on it, sit on it and rotate, sit on it and rotate till it bleeds * sit on one's hands * sit on the fence * sit out * sit pretty * sit through * sit tight * sit under * sit up * sit-uponNoun
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* (l), (l), , (l) English irregular verbs English three-letter words 1000 English basic words ----ait
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Noun
(wikipedia ait) (en noun)- The ait where the osiers grew.
- Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits .
- Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows.
- (Burns)