different between sit vs land

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t, IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”).

Verb

sit (third-person singular simple present sits, present participle sitting, simple past sat or (dated, poetic) sate, past participle sat or (archaic, dialectal) sitten)

1. (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?

     He is so fair, without lease, he seems full well to sit on this.

   After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.

2. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.

   I asked him to sit.

3. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.

   The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     The Yellow Sea sits between the Korean Peninsula and China.

4. (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.

   • And Moses said to […] the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
5. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.

   I currently sit on a standards committee.

6. (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.

   In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.

7. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     The calamity sits heavy on us.

8. To be adjusted; to fit.

   Your new coat sits well.
9. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.

   How will this new contract sit with the workers?

   I don’t think it will sit well.

   The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.

10. (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.

    Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.

11. (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.

    The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
12. (US, transitive, intransitive) To babysit.

    I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.

    I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.

    • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist

      I saw […] Mrs. Turman, who sometimes sat Billy when Steff and I went out […]

13. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
15. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.

    • The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.

16. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.

    I'm sitting for a painter this evening.

17. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
    • 1689, John Selden, Table Talk

      like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits

Conjugation

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sit.

Synonyms

• (be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported): be seated
• (move oneself into such a position): be seated, sit down (from a standing position), sit up (from a prone position), take a seat
• (of an object: occupy a given position permanently): be, be found, be situated
• (be a member of a deliberative body):
• (be accepted): be accepted, be welcomed, be well received
• (to accommodate in seats): seat

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Noun

sit (plural sits)

1. (mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
2. (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

sit (plural sits)

1. (informal) Short for situation.

Related terms

• sitrep

Anagrams

• 'its, 'tis, -ist, IST, ITS, Ist, STI, TIS, TIs, is't, ist, it's, its, tis

Afrikaans

Etymology

Formally from Dutch zitten (“to sit”), from Frankish *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjan?. Semantically from a merger of the former and related Dutch zetten (“to set, put”), from Proto-Germanic *satjan?, whence also Afrikaans set (chiefly in compounds). Both Germanic verbs are eventually from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/

Verb

sit (present sit, present participle sittende, past participle gesit)

1. (intransitive) to sit; to be in a sitting position (usually used with op, binne or in)

2. (intransitive) to sit; to sit down to move into a sitting position

3. (transitive) to place, to put

4. (transitive) to deposit

Usage notes

• Sit and its derivatives are usually more commonly used than plaas for their overlapping senses, but are sometimes considered less formal than plaas, especially in formal writing.

Synonyms

• (to deposit): deponeer, plaas
• (to place): neersit, plaas

Derived terms

• afsit
• besit
• neersit
• opsit
• sitplek

Related terms

• beset

Danish

Pronoun

sit n (common sin, plural sine)

1. (reflexive possessive) third-person sg pronoun, meaning his/her/its (own)

See also

Gothic

Romanization

sit

1. Romanization of ????????????

Karelian

Etymology

Related to Veps sid'.

Adverb

sit

1. here

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sit/, [s??t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sit/, [sit?]

Verb

sit

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of sum (be)
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:23

     Sit nomen tuum Deus Israhel benedictum in saecula. (Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever.)

References

• sit in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Verb

sit

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of sist
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of sist
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of sist
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of sist
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of sist
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of sist

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sit

1. present tense of sitja, sitje, sitta and sitte
2. imperative of sitja and sitje

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?it/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sit?.

Noun

sit m inan

1. Any rush of the genus Juncus.

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

sit n

1. genitive plural of sito

Further reading

• sit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *syt? (“satiated, full”).

Adjective

s?t (definite s?t?, comparative sitiji, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. sated, full

Declension

Antonyms

• gladan
• la?an (Croatia)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *sit?.

Alternative forms

• sìta / s?ta, sìtina / s?tina, sìt?k, sìt?k (more means Scirpus)

Noun

s?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. rush (genus Juncus)

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *syt?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sít/

Adjective

s?t (comparative b?lj s?t, superlative n?jbolj s?t)

1. sated, full

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *sit?.

Alternative forms

• site, s?tje, sitína

Noun

s?t m inan

1. rush (genus Juncus)

Further reading

• “sit”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Southern Ohlone

Noun

sit

1. tooth

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English shit.

Noun

sit

1. remnant

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish sitta.

Noun

sit

1. shit

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: l?nd, IPA^(key): /lænd/, [?e??nd]
• Rhymes: -ænd

Etymology 1

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, lond (“earth, land, soil, ground; defined piece of land, territory, realm, province, district; landed property; country (not town); ridge in a ploughed field”), from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land? (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), German Land (“land, country, state”), Norwegian and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”), Icelandic land (“land”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (l?do), from Proto-Slavic *l?da (“heath, wasteland”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

Noun

land (countable and uncountable, plural lands)

1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

   Most insects live on land.

2. Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and on which buildings can be erected.

   There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

3. A country or region.

   They come from a faraway land.

4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

   wet land; good or bad land for growing potatoes

6. (often in combination) realm, domain.

   I'm going to Disneyland.

   Maybe that's how it works in TV-land, but not in the real world.

7. (agriculture) The ground left unploughed between furrows; any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
8. (Irish English, colloquial) A shock or fright.

   He got an awful land when the police arrived.

9. (electronics) A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
10. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
    • 1935, H. Courtney Bryson, The Gramophone Record (page 72)

      Now, assume that the recording is being done with 100 grooves per inch, and that the record groove is .006 inch wide. This means that the land on either side on any given groove in the absence of sound waves is .004 inch.

11. (travel) The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.

    Our city offices sell a lot more land than our suburban offices.

12. (obsolete) The ground or floor.
13. (nautical) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

14. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
    1. (ballistics) The space between the rifling grooves in a gun.
15. (Scotland, historical) A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

land (third-person singular simple present lands, present participle landing, simple past and past participle landed)

1. (intransitive) To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

   The plane is about to land.

2. (dated) To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
   • 1859, “Rules adopted by the Sixth Avenue Railway, N. Y.”, quoted in Alexander Easton, A Practical Treatise on Street or Horse-Power Railways, page 108:

     10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.

3. (intransitive) To come into rest.
4. (intransitive) To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.
5. (transitive) To bring to land.

   It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

   Use the net to land the fish.
6. (transitive) To acquire; to secure.
7. (transitive) To deliver. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
8. (intransitive) To go down well with an audience.

   Some of the comedian's jokes failed to land.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English hland.

Noun

land (uncountable)

1. lant; urine

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch land, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/, [länt], [lant]

Noun

land (plural lande)

1. country; nation

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lan?/, [lan?]
• Rhymes: -and

Etymology 1

From Old Danish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, cognate with English land, German Land.

Noun

land n (singular definite landet, plural indefinite lande)

1. country (a geographical area that is politically independent)

   Synonyms: stat, nation

2. (uncountable, chiefly definite singular) country, countryside (rural areas outside the cities with agricultural production)
3. land (part of Earth that is not covered in water)
4. (as the last part of compounds) a large area or facility dedicated to a certain type of activity or merchandise

Usage notes

In compounds: land-, lande-, lands-.

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

land

1. imperative of lande

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nt/
• Hyphenation: land
• Rhymes: -?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lant, from Old Dutch lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (plural landen, diminutive landje n)

1. land; country
2. land (part of Earth not covered by water)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: land
• ? Sranan Tongo: lanti

Etymology 2

Verb

land

1. first-person singular present indicative of landen
2. imperative of landen

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Swedish land.

Noun

land n

1. country; nation

Declension

Faroese

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, plural lond)

1. land
2. coast
3. country, nation
4. ground, soil
5. the state

Declension

Related terms

• landa

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?, from Proto-Indo-European *kl?n- (“liquid, wet ground”). Cognate with Lithuanian klanas (“pool, puddle, slop”).

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, uncountable)

1. (uncountable) urine

Declension

Gothic

Romanization

land

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/
• Rhymes: -ant

Noun

land n (genitive singular lands, nominative plural lönd)

1. (uncountable) land, earth, ground (part of the Earth not under water)
2. (countable) country

3. (uncountable) countryside, country

4. (uncountable) land, as a mass noun, measurable in quantity
5. (countable) tracts of land, an estate

Declension

Derived terms

Middle English

Noun

land

1. Alternative form of lond

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n?/
• Rhymes: -?n?

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa or landene)

1. country
2. land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

land

1. imperative of lande

References

• “land” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?n?/, /l?nd/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Akin to English land.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. country

   Noreg er eit land i nord.

   Norway is a country in the north.

2. land

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hland, from Proto-Germanic *hland?.

Noun

land n (definite singular landet, indefinite plural land, definite plural landa)

1. urine from livestock

References

• “land” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.

Noun

land n (genitive lanz, plural land)

1. land
   • 1241, Codex Holmiensis, prologue.

     Mæth logh skal land byggæs.

     With law shall land be built.

Declension

Descendants

• Danish: land

Old English

Alternative forms

• lond, lænd

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old Dutch lant (Dutch land), Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd/

Noun

land n

1. land (dry portion of the Earth's surface)
2. a country
3. region within a country: district, province
4. the country, countryside
5. owned or tilled land, an estate

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• belandian (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
• belendan (“to bereave of land, dispossess”)
• ?elandian (“to land, to become land”)
• ?elendan (“to near, land, or come into lands as wealth”)
• lendan (“to come to land”)

Descendants

• Middle English: lond
  • English: land
  • Scots: laund, land
  • Yola: lhoan, lone

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “land”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Irish

Noun

land ?

1. Alternative spelling of lann

Mutation

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”). Cognate with Old Saxon land, Old Frisian land, lond, Old English land, lond, Old Dutch lant, Old High German lant, Gothic ???????????????? (land).

Noun

land n (genitive lands, plural l?nd)

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: land
• Faroese: land
• Norn: land
• Norwegian: land
• Old Swedish: land
  • Elfdalian: land
  • Swedish: land
• Old Danish: land
  • Danish: land
• Scanian: lann
• Gutnish: land, lande, landi

References

• land inGeir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *land.

Cognate with Old English land, lond, Old Frisian land, lond, Dutch land, Old High German lant (German Land), Old Norse land (Swedish land), Gothic ???????????????? (land). The Proto-Indo-European root is also the source of Proto-Celtic *land? (Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?nd/

Noun

land n

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: lant
  • Dutch Low Saxon: laand
  • German Low German: Land
    • Plautdietsch: Launt

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?.

Noun

land n

1. land

Declension

Descendants

• Elfdalian: land
• Swedish: land

Polish

Etymology

From German Land, from Middle High German lant, from Old High German lant, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lant/

Noun

land m inan

1. Land (federal state in Austria and Germany)
2. (Pozna?) countryside (rural area)

   Synonyms: prowincja, wie?

Declension

Further reading

• land in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• land in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From German Land

Noun

land n (plural landuri)

1. land (German and Austrian province)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From German Land.

Noun

land m (plural lands)

1. one of the federal states of Germany

Further reading

• “land” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish land, from Old Norse land, from Proto-Germanic *land?, from Proto-Indo-European *lend?- (“land, heath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /land/, [l?an??d?], (colloquial) /lan/
• Rhymes: -and

Noun

land n

1. a land, a country, a nation, a state
2. (uncountable) land, ground, earth, territory; as opposed to sea or air

3. (uncountable) land, countryside, earth, ground suitable for farming; as opposed to towns and cities

4. a garden plot, short for trädgårdsland; small piece of ground for growing vegetables, flowers, etc.

Declension

Synonyms

• (country): nation
• (neither sea nor air): backe, landbacke, mark
• (ground suitable for farming): mark (owned land in general, for farming or not)

Derived terms

References

• land in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Zealandic

Etymology

From Middle Dutch lant

Noun

land n (plural [please provide])

1. land