Sitting vs. Seating

The act or position of one that sits.

The act of providing or furnishing with a seat or seats.

A period during which one is seated and occupied with a single activity, such as posing for a portrait or reading a book.

The seats so provided or furnished

A session or term, as of a legislature or court.

The arrangement of seats in a room, auditorium, or banquet hall

An act, condition, or period of brooding on eggs by a bird; incubation.

The member or part on or within which another part is seated.

The number of eggs under a brooding bird; a clutch.

Material for upholstering seats.

Incubating a nest of eggs

Present participle of seat

Occupying an official position; incumbent.

(gerund) The act of one that seats.

Of or for sitting

(uncountable) The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.

Done or executed while sitting.

(countable) A period of time in which people are allowed into a performance, a meal, etc., to be seated.

A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

Material for making seats.

A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.

(obsolete) Haircloth.

A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.

(mechanics) Collectively, the various fitted supports of the parts of a structure or of a machine; a housing in which a component is seated.

The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.

(shipbuilding) That part of the floor which rests on the keel.

A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").

The act of providing with a seat or seats; as, the seating of an audience.

The incubation of eggs by a bird.

The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.

A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

An area that includes seats for several people;

Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

The service of ushering people to their seats

Present participle of sit

Executed from a sitting position.

Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

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

The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.

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 time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.

A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait);

The act of assuming or maintaining a seated position;

A meeting of spiritualists;

A session as of a legislature or court

(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks;

Not moving and therefore easy to attack;