Sitting /(?)/

Sit·ting

Sitting

a.
  1. Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.

Sitting

n.
  1. The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
  2. A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
  3. The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
  4. The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.
    The sitting closed in great agitation.
  5. The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.
    For the understanding of any one of St. Paul's Epistles I read it all through at one sitting.
  6. A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.
    The male bird . . . amuses her [the female] with his songs during the whole time of her sitting.

Phrases & Compounds
Sitting room
an apartment where the members of a family usually sit, as distinguished from a drawing-room, parlor, chamber, or kitchen.