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sitter
1[ sit-er ]
Sitter
2[ sit-er ]
noun
- Wil·lem de [wil, -, uh, m d, uh], 1872–1934, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.
sitter
1/ ˈɪə /
noun
- a person or animal that sits
- a person who is posing for his or her portrait to be painted, carved, etc
- a broody hen or other bird that is sitting on its eggs to hatch them
- in combination a person who looks after a specified person or thing for someone else
flat-sitter
- short for baby-sitter
- anyone, other than the medium, taking part in a seance
- anything that is extremely easy, such as an easy catch in cricket
Sitter
2/ ˈɪə /
noun
- SitterWillem de18721934MDutchSCIENCE: astronomer Willem de (ˈwɪləm də). 1872–1934, Dutch astronomer, who calculated the size of the universe and conceived of it as expanding
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"Now, I can hire a sitter for the weekend and then I can work the weekend, and they are the busiest hours."
"Hearts missed three or four sitters. Butland has had four or five good saves - some magnificent."
Rather than a tight, realist description of sitter and scene, he opted for suggestively rendering the image in quick, loose paint.
“Traffic was going slow, time felt like it was moving so slow” on their way back to the sitter, Sidhu said.
Their 14 shots - compared to Tottenham's 10 - included missed sitters and a horribly skied penalty as they were unable to take advantage of some sloppy Tottenham defending.
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