English-Portuguese translations for sitting

• sessão
  (A sessão tem início às 09H05) (The sitting was opened at 09.05)
  (A sessão é suspensa às 23H40) (The sitting was closed at 11.40 p.m.)
  (A sessão é suspensa às 00H05) (The sitting closed at 00.05.)

Definition of sitting

• A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose
• A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc
• A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period
• A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird
• Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything
• Executed from a sitting position

Examples

• Due to the sheer volume of guests, we had to have two sittings for the meal.
• The Queen had three sittings for her portrait.
• we have thirty-four chicks from eight sittings of eggs

Related words

• baby-sitting
• babysitting
• sitting-room
• facesitting
• Sittingbourne
• home-sitting
• sitting duck
• sitting room
• sitting toilet