Siting vs. Sitting — What's the Difference?

Sitting is a basic action and resting position in which the body weight is supported primarily by the bony ischial tuberosities with the buttocks in contact with the ground or a horizontal surface such as a chair seat, instead of by the lower limbs as in standing, squatting or kneeling. When sitting, the torso is more or less upright, although sometimes it can lean against other objects for a more relaxed posture.

A continuous period of being seated, especially when engaged in a particular activity

A scheduled period of time when a number of people are served a meal, especially in a restaurant

A period of time during which a committee or parliament is engaged in its normal business

In a seated position

(of an MP or other elected representative) current; present

(of a hen or other bird) settled on eggs for the purpose of incubating them.

The act or position of one that sits.

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

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

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

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

Incubating a nest of eggs

Occupying an official position; incumbent.

Of or for sitting

Done or executed while sitting.

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

A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.

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

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

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

The incubation of eggs by a bird.

A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

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

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;