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sitter

[ sit-er ]

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noun

a person who sits. sit.
a brooding hen.
a person who stays with young children while the parents go out; baby-sitter.
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.
Slang. the buttocks; rump.

Sitter

[ sit-er ]

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

sitter

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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

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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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Origin of sitter¹

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

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On the other hand, the sitter’s handwriting is also proof that the portrait was drawn from life, not copied from a photograph.

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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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