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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

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