different between sat vs sitting

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

Adjective

sat (not comparable)

1. (Britain, predicative) Seated; sitting (down).

Verb

sat

1. simple past tense and past participle of sit

Etymology 2

Noun

sat (plural sats)

1. Abbreviation of satellite. (artificial orbital body)
2. Abbreviation of satisfactory.
3. Level of saturation (especially of oxygen in the blood).
   • 2010, Virginia Allum, Patricia McGarr, Cambridge English for Nursing Pre-intermediate Student's Book with Audio CD, Cambridge University Press (?ISBN), page 93:

     Also, your blood pressure and oxygen sats – that's the amount of oxygen in your blood.

   • 2012, Emily Forbes, Georgie's Big Greek Wedding?, Harlequin (?ISBN), page 44:

     [T]his is her third admission for breathing difficulties. The first two admissions we managed to control her and discharge her home with her mum. This time we can't get her oxygen sats up—they're actually falling.

   • 2015, Christopher J Gallagher, MD, Pure and Simple: Anesthesia Writtens Review IV Questions, Answers, Explanations 501-1000 (?ISBN):

     Intubation is not necessary unless his oxygen sat reading is low.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• -ast, AST, ATS, ATs, STA, Sta, Sta., T.A.s, TA's, TAS, TAs, TSA, Tas, Tas., as't, ast, at's, ats, sta, tas

Chuukese

Noun

sat

1. sea

Danish

Verb

sat

1. past participle of sætte

Fiji Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from English shirt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??/

Noun

sat

1. shirt

References

• Fiji Hindi Dictionary

Gothic

Romanization

sat

1. Romanization of ????????????

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin satis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sat/

Adverb

sat

1. enough, sufficiently

Derived terms

• sate
• sata (“enough”)
• sato (“a sufficiency”)

Indonesian

Noun

sat

1. (law enforcement) Clipping of satuan (“unit”).

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (sapta). Compare Hindi ??? (s?t).

Numeral

sat

1. seven; 7

Kedah Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sat/

Adverb

sat

1. For a moment, for a few minutes, for a second.

2. As a consequence, then, or else

See also

• sekejap
• sebentar

Latin

Adverb

sat (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of satis (“enough”)

References

• sat in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sat in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German sat, from Proto-Germanic *sadaz. Cognate with German satt, Dutch zat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /za?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Adjective

sat (masculine saten, neuter sat, comparative méi sat, superlative am saatsten)

1. full, sated

2. drunk, inebriated

Declension

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French chat

Noun

sat

1. cat

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Middle English

Noun

sat

1. Alternative form of schat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sat

1. past tense of sitja, sitje, sitta and sitte

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *seh?-. Compare Old Saxon sad, Dutch zat, Old English sæd, Old Norse saðr, Gothic ???????????????? (saþs).

Adjective

sat

1. full, sated

Descendants

• Middle High German: sat
  • German: satt

Romanian

Alternative forms

• fsat (archaic)

Etymology

From Old Romanian fsat, probably from Albanian fshat (“village”), or from Byzantine Greek ????????? (phoussáton, “citadel”), from Late Latin foss?tum (“entrenchment, place enclosed by a ditch”), from Latin fossa (“ditch”), or possibly derived directly from Latin, but this is less likely.

Noun

sat n (plural sate)

1. village, small rural settlement
2. (archaic) field

   Synonym: câmp

Declension

Related terms

• s?tean
• s?teanc?
• s?tesc
• s?ti?or

See also

• ora?

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• s?hat / sàhat

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (sa?at), from Persian ????? (sâ?at), from Arabic ??????? (s??a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sâ?t/

Noun

s?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. clock, watch (instrument used to measure or keep track of time)

   Synonyms: rèl?j, ?ra

Declension

Noun

s?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. hour

   Synonym: (Bosnia, Serbia) ??s

Declension

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French chat

Noun

sat

1. cat

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Turkish

Verb

sat

1. imperative of satmak

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t??
• Hyphenation: sit?ting

Etymology 1

From Middle English sittyng, sittynge, equivalent to sit +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch zitting (“a sitting,session”), German Sitzung (“a sitting, session”), Swedish sittning (“a sitting, session”).

Noun

sitting (plural sittings)

1. 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.

2. A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.
3. A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.
4. The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.
5. A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").
6. The incubation of eggs by a bird.
7. A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

   we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs

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

Derived terms

• fence-sitting

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English sittinge, sittynge, variant of sittinde, sittende, sittande, from Old English sittende (“sitting”), from Proto-Germanic *sitjandz (“sitting”), present participle of Proto-Germanic *sitjan? (“to sit”), equivalent to sit +? -ing. Cognate with West Frisian sittend (“sitting”), Dutch zittend (“sitting”), German sitzend (“sitting”), Swedish sittande (“sitting”), Icelandic sitjandi (“sitting”).

Verb

sitting

1. present participle of sit

Derived terms

• sitting pretty

Adjective

sitting (not comparable)

1. Executed from a sitting position.
2. Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

Derived terms

• sitting duck
• sitting tenant
• sitting service

References

• sitting at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Gittins

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sitjing

Noun

sitting f (definite singular sittinga, indefinite plural sittingar, definite plural sittingane)

1. the act of sitting

References

• “sitting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.