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sit | sprawl |

As verbs the difference between sit and sprawl

is that 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 while sprawl is to sit with the limbs spread out.

As nouns the difference between sit and sprawl

is that sit is an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation while sprawl is an ungainly sprawling posture.

sit

English

Verb

  • (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.
    • After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
  • (of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
    • I asked him to sit .
  • (of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
    • The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
  • To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
  • * Bible, Numbers xxxii. 6
    • And Moses said to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
  • * Shakespeare
    • Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
  • (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
    • I currently sit on a standards committee.
  • (legal, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
    • In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.
  • To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • The calamity sits heavy on us.
  • To be adjusted; to fit.
    • Your new coat sits well.
  • * Shakespeare
    • This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, / Sits not so easy on me as you think.
  • (of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
    • 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.
  • To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
    • Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
  • * 1874 , , (w), XX
  • To accommodate in seats; to seat.
    • The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
    I sat me weary on a pillar's base, / And leaned against the shaft
  • shortened form of babysit.
    • I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.
  • (US) To babysit
    • I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
  • (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
    • The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
  • To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
    • I'm sitting for a painter this evening.
  • To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
  • * Selden
    • like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Sits the wind in that quarter?

    Conjugation

    * An obsolete form of the simple past is (m) and of the past participle is (m). Entry about 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) seat

    Derived 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 with

    See 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-upon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

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    sprawl

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sit with the limbs spread out.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1888 , year_published=1994 , publisher=Wordsworth Editions , author= , title=The Man Who Would Be King, and Other Stories , chapter=Baa Baa, Black Sheep citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=4cHkHAU7r9kC&pg=PA159&dq=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to+sprawl%22+-urban&hl=en&ei=OhVOTMSHDciWOPGJgZYD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBzhQ
  • v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
    • , isbn=9781853262098 , page=159 , passage=There was no special place for him or his little affairs, and he was forbidden to sprawl' on sofas and explain his ideas about the manufacture of this world and his hopes for the future. ' Sprawling was lazy and wore out sofas, and little boys were not expected to talk.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1942 , year_published=2007 , publisher=Down East Enterprises , author=Louise Dickinson Rich , title=We Took to the Woods , chapter=“Do You Get Out Very Often?” citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=LsDXYtxwxygC&pg=PA314&dq=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to+sprawl%22+-urban&hl=en&ei=OhVOTMSHDciWOPGJgZYD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFMQ6AEwCThQ
  • v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
    • , isbn=9780892727360 , page=314 , passage=But most of all I like to sit in the dark with all these hearty souls sprawled' around me on the floor and hear them talk. I am sorry to say that I can never believe that floor-'''sprawling is anything but a pose; I have tried it and it is ''not comfortable but it looks well in the flickering fire-light, and is in good magazine-story tradition.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1979 , year_published=1985 , publisher=Gallaudet University Press , author=Thomas S. Spradley, James P. Spradley , title=Deaf Like Me , section=Chapter Six citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Jhq_4oEbcKcC&pg=PA64&dq=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to+sprawl%22+-urban&hl=en&ei=SBlOTJbXEqSTOJzI_ZUD&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwATha
  • v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
    • , isbn=9780930323110 , page=64 , passage=There were pillows on the floor, a few chairs, and four or five students sprawled here and there watching a football game.}}
  • To spread out in a disorderly fashion; to straggle.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1771 , publisher=B. White , editor= , by=Carl Gustav Ekeberg , author=Johann Reinhold Foster , title=A Voyage to China and the East Indies, volume 2 , chapter=Birds and Beasts , volume_plain=A Short Account of the Chinese Husbandry citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=zUkQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA312&dq=sprawl&hl=en&ei=Mh5LTOatOtfcsAavq-RF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAzge
  • v=onepage&q=sprawl&f=false
    • , page=321 , passage=The hatched young ones are ?odl to tho?e who breed them up, and the?e try in the following manner whether they are hatched too ?oon or not: they take hold the little ducks by the bill, and their bodies hang down ; if they ?prawl and extend their feet and wings, they are hatched in due time ; but if they have had too much heat, they hang without any ?truggling.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1914 , year_published=2009 , publisher=BiblioBazaar , author= , title=Cross Trails: The Story of One Woman in the North Woods citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ew0CQkAYQkUC&pg=PA116&dq=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to+sprawl%22+-urban&hl=en&ei=vSdLTN7rJYuqsAbU7MhG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwADgK
  • v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
    • , isbn=9781103051649 , page=116 , passage=A shrewd blow, it caught him off balance, and after one ineffectual stagger he sprawled backward and lay for a moment staring up in blank surprise}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1995 , publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group , author=James H. Hallas , title=Squandered Victory: the American First Army at St. Mihiel , chapter=Eyes on Metz citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=v8CgZ6eJFa8C&pg=PA187&dq=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to+sprawl%22+-urban&hl=en&ei=-xFOTJiDFY6lsQao_fxO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBDgo
  • v=onepage&q=sprawled, sprawls, sprawling, %22to%20sprawl%22%20-urban&f=false
    • , isbn=9780275950224 , page=187 , passage=German trucks stood along the road, the drivers dead in the seats or sprawled' on the ground nearby.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Clive Lindsay , title=Kilmarnock 1 - 2 St Johnstone , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Bell sprawled full length to turn a Sandaza drive wide of the far post, but Saints had done enough to inflict Killie's first home defeat of the season.}}

    Noun

    (-)
  • An ungainly sprawling posture.
  • A straggling, haphazard growth, especially of housing on the edge of a city.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , publisher=JHU Press , author=Anthony Flint , title=The Land: The Battle Over Sprawl and the Future of America , section=Introduction: Developing America citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=SmVKMXG28Q0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=sprawl&ei=qhxLTISWK4aWzASZmMG-CQ&cd=10
  • v=onepage&q=sprawl&f=false
    • , isbn=9780801884191 , page=17 , passage=Getting people to think about the future is difficult. Just ask some of the people who end up being most concerned about sprawl —the millions who move into suburban subdivisions, only to have their dreams of the good life spoiled by maddening traffic and water bans, because millions more moved into the next subdivision over.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year=1959 , author=William H. Whye Jr. , title=A Plan to Save Vanishing U.S. Countryside , date=August 17, 1959 , volume=47 , issue=7 , page=92 , magazine=Life , publisher=Time, Inc , issn=0024-3019 citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=R0gEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA92&dq=sprawl&hl=en&ei=fB1LTJPFHM_gsAbDzMRG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CFkQ6AEwBw
  • v=onepage&q=sprawl&f=false
    • , passage=Many of our past difficulties in dealing with sprawl' come from some very mistaken if widely held assumptions. One is that ' sprawl is due to too many people and not enough land. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year=1948 , author=Terry B. Augur , title=The Dispersal of Cities—A Feasible Program , date=October 1948 , volume=4 , issue=10 , page=314 , magazine=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , publisher=Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science , issn=0096-3402 citation , pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=0QsAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA314&dq=sprawl&hl=en&ei=Mh5LTOatOtfcsAavq-RF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDEQ6AEwADge
  • v=onepage&q=sprawl&f=false
    • , passage=He briefly compares the relative merits of providing for that growth by the usual method of urban sprawl and by directing it into suburban satellite communities with the integrity preserved and comes out strongly for the latter method. }}

    Derived terms

    * urban sprawl

    See also

    * Los Angelization