Crossword-Solution: SIT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sit | - | obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth. |
| Sit | v. t. | To rest upon the haunches, or the lower extremity of the trunk of the body; -- said of human beings, and sometimes of other animals; as, to sit on a sofa, on a chair, or on the ground. |
| Sit | v. t. | To perch; to rest with the feet drawn up, as birds do on a branch, pole, etc. |
| Sit | v. t. | To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition. |
| Sit | v. t. | To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh; -- with on; as, a weight or burden sits lightly upon him. |
| Sit | v. t. | To be adjusted; to fit; as, a coat sts well or ill. |
| Sit | v. t. | To suit one well or ill, as an act; to become; to befit; -- used impersonally. |
| Sit | v. t. | To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate. |
| Sit | v. t. | To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction. |
| Sit | v. t. | To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress. |
| Sit | v. t. | To hold a session; to be in session for official business; -- said of legislative assemblies, courts, etc.; as, the court sits in January; the aldermen sit to-night. |
| Sit | v. t. | To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter. |
| Sit | v. t. | To sit upon; to keep one's seat upon; as, he sits a horse well. |
| Sit | v. t. | To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to; -- used reflexively. |
| Sit | v. t. | To suit (well / ill); to become. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SIT | anagram | IST, ITS, STI, TIS |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
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CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SIT (5)
They would sit there in the empty nursery, recalling fondly every smallest detail of that dreadful evening.
Thee Father first they sung Omnipotent, Immutable, Immortal, Infinite, Eternal King; thee Author of all being, Fountain of Light, thy self invisible Amidst the glorious brightness where thou sit’st Thron’d inaccessible, but when thou shad’st The full blaze of thy beams, and through a cloud Drawn round about thee like a radiant Shrine, Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appeer, Yet dazle Heav’n, that brightest Seraphim Approach not, but with both wings veil thir eyes.
Hamilton used to sit in a large chair in the middle of the room, with a heavy cowskin always by her side, and scarce an hour passed during the day but was marked by the blood of one of these slaves.
Let’s sit down by the gooseberry bushes.” He picked up her sack of potatoes and they crossed the garden.
Closing the slide to windward, he turned to open the other; on second thoughts the farmer considered that he would first sit down, leaving both closed for a minute or two, till the temperature of the hut was a little raised.
Quotes with SIT (3)
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their…
Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel terribly guilty about throwing the schmuc…
Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 1,029 times in crossword archives (1946–2025).