Word Type
Sit can be a noun or a verb.
sit used as a noun:
- an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
sit used as a verb:
- To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs (especially the upper legs) are supported by some object.
"After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax." - To move oneself into such a position.
"I asked him to sit." - To occupy a given position permanently.
"The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries." - To be a member of a deliberative body.
"I currently sit on a standards committee." - Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
"In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session." - To be accepted.
"How will this new contract sit with the workers?" - To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
"Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours." - To accommodate in seats; to seat.
"The dining room table sits eight comfortably." - shortened form of babysit.
"I'm going to sit for them on Thursday." - To babysit
"I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is sit?
- Verb usage: After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
- Verb usage: I asked him to sit.
- Verb usage: The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
- Verb usage: I currently sit on a standards committee.
- Verb usage: In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.
- Verb usage: How will this new contract sit with the workers?
- Verb usage: I don’t think it will sit well.
- Verb usage: Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
- Verb usage: The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
- Verb usage: I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.
- Verb usage: I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of sit are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of sit, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).