Sit vs Sie - What's the difference?
sit | sie |
(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.
To sink; fall; drop.
To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
(dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
To sift.
(dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.
(neologism)
* 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
* {{quote-book
, year = 2010
, date = September 16
, title = Amaranth and Ash
, author = Jessica Freely
, publisher = Lightning Source
, location = La Vergne
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 101
, passage = "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WpHMcQAACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = May 19
, title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant
, author = Ken Wickham
, publisher = CreateSpace
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 7
, passage = Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = August 16
, title = Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
, author = Petra Kuppers
, publisher = Palgrave Macmillan
, location = New York
, isbn = 9780230298279
, id =
, lccn = 2011012058
, page = 18
, passage = When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie' offered me this language, '' sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jAP1tgAACAAJ
}}
As a noun sit
is shit.As an interjection sit
is shit, dammit.As a pronoun sie is
these;.sit
English
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
(en noun)References
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* (l), (l), , (l) English irregular verbs English three-letter words 1000 English basic words ----sie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* (l)Pronoun
- If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,