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sitter

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[ sit-er ]

noun

  1. a person who sits. sit.
  2. a brooding hen.
  3. a person who stays with young children while the parents go out; baby-sitter.
  4. a person who provides routine or custodial care temporarily or part-time, as for an elderly person or a pet whose owner is on vacation.
  5. Slang. the buttocks; rump.


Sitter

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[ sit-er ]

noun

  1. Wil·lem de [wil, -, uh, m d, uh], 1872–1934, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.

sitter

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/ ˈɪə /

noun

  1. a person or animal that sits
  2. a person who is posing for his or her portrait to be painted, carved, etc
  3. a broody hen or other bird that is sitting on its eggs to hatch them
  4. in combination a person who looks after a specified person or thing for someone else

    flat-sitter

  5. short for baby-sitter
  6. anyone, other than the medium, taking part in a seance
  7. anything that is extremely easy, such as an easy catch in cricket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Sitter

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/ ˈɪə /

noun

  1. SitterWillem de18721934MDutchSCIENCE: astronomer Willem de (ˈwɪləm də). 1872–1934, Dutch astronomer, who calculated the size of the universe and conceived of it as expanding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of sitter1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; sit 1, -er 1
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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."

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"Hearts missed three or four sitters. Butland has had four or five good saves - some magnificent."

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Rather than a tight, realist description of sitter and scene, he opted for suggestively rendering the image in quick, loose paint.

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“Traffic was going slow, time felt like it was moving so slow” on their way back to the sitter, Sidhu said.

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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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