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(v)
(intransitive) To assume a sitting position from a standing position.
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(transitive) To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm.
(transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
Alternative spelling of babysit. [(ambitransitive) To watch or tend someone else's child for a period of time, often for money.]
(ambitransitive) To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc.
(transitive) To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.
(n)
(uncountable) The provision of chairs or other places for people to sit.
(adj)
sitting
(transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
To position or be positioned physically:
(intransitive) To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up.
(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
To change place.
(intransitive) To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.
A stay or visit.
(transitive or ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire.
To move toward the speaker.
To make contact (with someone) while in proximity.
(transitive) To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
(intransitive) To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness.
The body or any of its matter that are left after a person (or any organism) dies; a corpse.
To physically place (something or someone somewhere).
(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
(transitive, commerce) To mark or declare items left unsold as subject to reduction in price.
(transitive, uncommon) To assault or blockade a city or fortress with the intent of conquering by force or attrition; to besiege.
To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
(intransitive) To become solid; to freeze, set.
(intransitive) To join in, to take part, to involve oneself (in something).
(intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
To help.
A ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.
(transitive) To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
A starting point, base or foundation for an argument or hypothesis.
(ambitransitive) To pay out (money).
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
(intransitive) To have its proper place.
(ambitransitive) To combine into a single unit; to group together or join.
(heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally.
(intransitive) To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
(transitive) To put (someone or something) in a specific location.
The center of an organization's operations or administration.
Senses relating to caring for or waiting on someone, or accompanying or being present.
(colloquial) A gentleman.
To request or petition.
(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
(intransitive, stative) To perceive sounds through the ear.
(transitive) To decide, rule on, or settle as a judge.
(figuratively) To establish a substantial position in business, politics, etc.
(transitive) To connect or combine into one; to put together.
(adv)
(dictionaries, text messaging) Clipping of probably. [In all likelihood.]
station
To make or form a cross.
The letter Ц, ц.
(transitive, figurative) To establish on a solid foundation.
(personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
Initialism of truth in sentencing.
(carpentry) To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint.
Of or relating to Pan-Africanism.
(intransitive, of birds or bats) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest.
A city in the province of Perugia in the Central-Italian region of Umbria.
A surname.
(slang) Something or someone disagreeable, dispiriting or depressing; a killjoy.
(N)
a city and a municipality in the southwestern part of the state of São Paulo in Brazil.
a village in the ǁKaras Region of southern Namibia.
An inner part.
An area of land set aside for environment preservation or recreation.
Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
To conclude or resolve (something):
To set light to (something); to set (something) on fire; to ignite, to light.
To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid.
(intransitive) To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
(intransitive or transitive) To settle comfortably.
(intransitive) (also figurative) To lean or recline, sit down, or lie down to rest; to rest.
To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.
(intransitive) To crouch or squat close to the ground or lie down
(intransitive) To bend down; to stoop low; to stand close to the ground with legs bent, like an animal when waiting for prey, or someone in fear.
(intransitive, followed by "at") To look fixedly (at something).
(intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.
(intransitive) To lean back.
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
(informal) To live or spend a period of time in a dull, inactive, unchallenging way.
(intransitive) To be or remain suspended.
(intransitive) To rest and become relieved of stress.
(intransitive) To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.