different between sitting vs silting

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.

English

Verb

silting

1. present participle of silt

Anagrams

• listing, sliting, stiling, tilings