▸ sit through PHRASAL VERB If you sit through something such as a film, lecture, or meeting, you stay until it is finished although you are not enjoying it. □ [V P n] …movies so bad you can hardly bear to sit through them.
▸ sit up
1 PHRASAL VERB If you sit up , you move into a sitting position when you have been leaning back or lying down. □ [V P ] Her head spins dizzily as soon as she sits up.
2 PHRASAL VERB If you sit someone up , you move them into a sitting position when they have been leaning back or lying down. □ [V n P ] She sat him up and made him comfortable. [Also V P n (not pron)]
3 PHRASAL VERB If you sit up , you do not go to bed although it is very late. □ [V P ] We sat up drinking and talking.
4 → see also sit-up COLLOCATIONS sit VERB 1
sit + adverb : comfortably, idly, patiently, quietly; uneasily
si|tar /s I tɑː r / (sitars ) N‑VAR A sitar is an Indian musical instrument with two layers of strings, a long neck, and a round body.
sit|com /s I tkɒm/ (sitcoms ) N‑COUNT A sitcom is an amusing television drama series about a set of characters. Sitcom is an abbreviation for 'situation comedy'.
si t-down
1 N‑SING If you have a sit-down , you sit down and rest for a short time. [BRIT , INFORMAL ] □ All he wanted was a cup of tea and a sit-down.
2 ADJ [ADJ n] A sit-down meal is served to people sitting at tables. □ A sit-down dinner was followed by a disco.
3 ADJ [ADJ n] In a sit-down protest, people refuse to leave a place until they get what they want. □ Teachers staged a sit-down protest in front of the president's office.
site ◆◆◇ /sa I t/ (sites , siting , sited )
1 N‑COUNT [oft n N ] A site is a piece of ground that is used for a particular purpose or where a particular thing happens. □ He became a hod carrier on a building site. □ …a bat sanctuary with special nesting sites.
2 N‑COUNT The site of an important event is the place where it happened. □ [+ of ] …the site of the worst ecological disaster on Earth.
3 N‑COUNT A site is a piece of ground where something such as a statue or building stands or used to stand. □ [+ of ] …the site of Moses' tomb.
4 N‑COUNT A site is the same as a website .
5 VERB [usu passive] If something is sited in a particular place or position, it is put there or built there. □ [be V -ed prep/adv] He said chemical weapons had never been sited in this country. □ [V -ed] …a damp, old castle, romantically sited on a river estuary. ● sit|ing N‑SING □ [+ of ] …controls on the siting of gas storage vessels.
6 PHRASE If someone or something is on site , they are in a particular area or group of buildings where people work, study, or stay. □ It is cheaper to have extra building work done when the builder is on site.
7 PHRASE If someone or something is off site , they are away from a particular area or group of buildings where people work, study, or stay. □ There is ample car parking off site. SYNONYMS site NOUN
1
area: …a picnic area.
plot: I thought I'd buy myself a small plot of land and build a house on it.
ground: …a stretch of waste ground.
patch: …a patch of land covered in forest.
2
location: The first thing he looked at was his office's location.
place: …Temple Mount, the place where the Temple actually stood.
setting: The house is in a lovely setting in the Malvern hills.
spot: They stayed at several of the island's top tourist spots.
si te map (site maps ) N‑COUNT A site map is a plan of a website showing what is on it and providing links to the different sections. [COMPUTING ]
si t-in (sit-ins ) N‑COUNT A sit-in is a protest in which people go to a public place and stay there for a long time. [BUSINESS ] □ The campaigners held a sit-in outside the Supreme Court.
sit|ter /s I tə r / (sitters ) N‑COUNT A sitter is the same as a babysit .
sit|ting /s I t I ŋ/ (sittings )
1 N‑COUNT A sitting is one of the periods when a meal is served when there is not enough space for everyone to eat at the same time. □ Dinner was in two sittings.
2 N‑COUNT A sitting of a parliament, legislature, court, or other official body is one of the occasions when it meets in order to carry out its work. □ [+ of ] …the recent emergency sittings of the U.N. Security Council.
3 ADJ [ADJ n] A sitting president or member of parliament is a present one, not a future or past one. □ …the greatest clash in our history between a sitting president and an ex-president.
4 → see also sit
si t|ting du ck (sitting ducks ) N‑COUNT If you say that someone is a sitting duck , you mean that they are easy to attack, cheat, or take advantage of. [INFORMAL ] □ Nancy knew she'd be a sitting duck when she raised the trap door.
si t|ting room (sitting rooms ) also sitting-room N‑COUNT A sitting room is a room in a house where people sit and relax. [BRIT ] in AM, usually use living room
si t|ting ta r|get (sitting targets ) N‑COUNT A sitting target is the same as a sitting duck . □ [+ for ] They know they are a sitting target for the press.