Sitting vs. Seating

Sitting and Seating Definitions
Sitting
The act or position of one that sits.
Seating
The act of providing or furnishing with a seat or seats.
Sitting
A period during which one is seated and occupied with a single activity, such as posing for a portrait or reading a book.
Seating
The seats so provided or furnished
Seating for 500.
Sitting
A session or term, as of a legislature or court.
Seating
The arrangement of seats in a room, auditorium, or banquet hall
A theater that offers semicircular seating.
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Sitting
An act, condition, or period of brooding on eggs by a bird; incubation.
Seating
The member or part on or within which another part is seated.
Sitting
The number of eggs under a brooding bird; a clutch.
Seating
Material for upholstering seats.
Sitting
Incubating a nest of eggs
A sitting hen.
Seating
Present participle of seat
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Sitting
Occupying an official position; incumbent.
Seating
(gerund) The act of one that seats.
The seating of passengers will begin soon.
Sitting
Of or for sitting
A sitting posture.
A sitting area in a bus station.
Seating
(uncountable) The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.
There is plenty of comfortable seating.
Sitting
Done or executed while sitting.
Seating
(countable) A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated.
The first seating begins at 5 o'clock.
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Sitting
A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.
Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
Seating
Material for making seats.
Cane seating
Sitting
A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
Seating
(obsolete) Haircloth.
Sitting
A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
Seating
(mechanics) Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.
Sitting
The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
Seating
(shipbuilding) That part of the floor which rests on the keel.
Sitting
A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
Seating
The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.
Sitting
The incubation of eggs by a bird.
Seating
The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.
Sitting
A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.
We have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs
Seating
An area that includes seats for several people;
There is seating for 40 students in this classroom
Sitting
Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.
Seating
The service of ushering people to their seats
Sitting
Present participle of sit
Sitting
Executed from a sitting position.
Sitting
Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.
Sitting
Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.
Sitting
The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.
Sitting
A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.
Sitting
The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.
Sitting
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.
Sitting
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.
Sitting
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.
Sitting
(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait);
He wanted his portrait painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting
Sitting
The act of assuming or maintaining a seated position;
He read the mystery at one sitting
Sitting
A meeting of spiritualists;
The seance was held in the medium's parlor
Sitting
A session as of a legislature or court
Sitting
(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks;
The seated Madonna
The audience remained seated
Sitting
Not moving and therefore easy to attack;
A sitting target