Jitter vs Sitter - What's the difference?
jitter | sitter |
A nervous action; a tic.
A state of nervousness.
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(telecommunications) An abrupt and unwanted variation of one or more signal characteristics.
Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
One employed to watch or tend something; the general form of babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
A broody hen.
(football, and, snooker, slang) A very easy scoring chance.
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As nouns the difference between jitter and sitter
is that jitter is a nervous action; a tic or jitter can be (computing) a program or routine that performs jitting while sitter is someone who sits, eg for a portrait.As a verb jitter
is to be nervous.jitter
English
Etymology 1
Possibly alteration ofNoun
(en noun)- That creepy movie gave me the jitters .
Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian , 27 November 2014:
- It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
- How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter !