Sit back

Definition

sit /sÇt/ v ( -tt- ; pt, pp sat /sæt/ ) ၁။ (က) ထိုင္သည္။ sitting on a stool/on the ground/in an armchair ❍ sit at a table/desk ❍ We sat at the back of the cinema. ❍ Sit still, Tommy! (ခ) ~ (sb) (down) ; ~ oneself down ထိုင္သည္။ ထိုင္ေစသည္။ Please sit down. ❍ Can you see anywhere to sit? ❍ She sat (down) on the bed and took her shoes off. ❍ He lifted the child and sat her on the wall. ❍ Sit yourself down and tell us what happened. ၂။ ~ (for sb) (ပန္းခ်ီ)အဆြဲ ခံသည္။ (ဓာတ္ပံု)အ႐ိုက္ခံသည္။ She sat for Augustus John. ၃။ ထိုင္သည္။ She ordered the dog to sit. ၄။ (က) (ငွက္)နားသည္။ swallows sitting on the telephone wires. (ခ) (ဥက်င္း၌ငွက္)ဝပ္သည္။ The hen sits for most of the day. ၅။ စည္းေဝး(ထိုင္)သည္။ ႐ံုးထိုင္သည္။ The House of Commons was still sitting at 3 am. ၆။ ~ (for sth) ( Brit ) စာေမးပြဲေျဖသည္။ sit (for) an exam/a test. ၇။ တတ္တိုင္း(ရိွ၊ လြတ္)ေနသည္။ The book sat on my shelf for years before I read it. ❍ Those houses are just sitting empty. ၈။ ~ (on sb) အေနေတာ္(ပြ၊ က်ပ္)သည္။ a jacket that sits well/loosely on sb. ❏ be sitting pretty [ IDM ] မၿဖံဳေပါင္။ I was the only person fully insured, so I'm sitting pretty. ❏ sit around/about [ PHRV ] ( often derog ) ငုတ္တုတ္ ထိုင္ေနသည္။ ဘုတ္ထိုင္ထိုင္သည္။ He just sits around listening to the radio all day. ❏ sit at sb's feet [ IDM ] တပည့္ရင္းျဖစ္သည္။ အေႏၲဝါသိက တပည့္ျဖစ္သည္။ She sat at the feet of Freud himself. ❏ sit back [ PHRV ] ၁။ ကုလားထိုင္တြင္ ေနာက္ေက်ာမီွ၍ ေအးေအးလူလူ ထိုင္သည္။ I sat back and enjoyed a cup of tea. ၂။ အခံ့သားထိုင္ေနသည္။ Everybody just sat back and did nothing. ❏ sit by [ PHRV ] လက္ပိုက္ၾကည့္ေနသည္။ ထိုင္ၾကည့္ေနသည္။ How can the government just sit by and let this happen? ❏ sit-down n ၁။ ထိုင္သပိတ္ေမွာက္ျခင္း။ stage a sit-down ❍ a sit-down protest. ၂။ [sing] ( Brit infml ) ထိုင္နားျခင္း။ I just feel like a sit-down—let's find a café. adj ထိုင္ရာမထစားရသည့္ ထမင္းပြဲ။ Compare BUFFET 1 ၂ ❏ sit for sth [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) (no passive) …နယ္ ပါလီမန္ အမတ္ျဖစ္သည္။ I sit for Bristol West. ❏ sit in [ PHRV ] အခန္း၊ အေဆာက္အအံုစသည္ကို ဆႏၵျပသည့္ အေနျဖင့္ ဝင္ေရာက္သိမ္းပိုက္သည္။ See also SIT-IN ❏ sit-in n အေဆာက္အအံု၊ ေနရာတစ္ခုခုမွ် ဖယ္မေပးဘဲ ဆႏၵျပနည္း။ They staged a sit-in at the city council offices. ❏ sit in for sb [ PHRV ] သူတစ္ပါးေနရာတြင္ ကိုယ္စား ဝင္ေရာက္လုပ္ေပးသည္။ Compare STAND IN ❏ sit in judgement (on/over sb) [ IDM ] (မဆီမဆိုင္) ေဝဖန္တိကျပဳသည္။ How dare you sit in judgement on me? ❏ sit in on sth [ PHRV ] အစည္းအေဝးစသည္၌ ဝင္ေရာက္ ေလ့လာသည္။ A medical student sat in on the consultation. ❏ sit on sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ကုပ္ႏိွပ္ေပးသည္။ ခြၽန္းအုပ္ ေပးသည္။ She can be very arrogant, and needs sitting on occasionally. ❏ sit on sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ (no passive) (အဖြဲ႕ဝင္…ဦး) ပါဝင္သည္။ How many people sit on the panel? ၂။ ( infml usu derog ) ေခ်ာင္ထိုးထားသည္။ ေခါက္ထားသည္။ They have been sitting on my application for a month. ❏ sit on the fence [ IDM ] ေလွနံႏွစ္ဖက္နင္းသည္။ ❏ sit out [ PHRV ] အျပင္ထြက္ထိုင္သည္။ The garden's so lovely, I think I'll sit out. ❏ sit sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ေအာင့္အည္းလ်က္ ၿပီးဆံုးေအာင္ ေနသည္။ sit out a storm. ၂။ ေဘးထိုင္ေနသည္။ I think I'll sit this one out. ဒီတစ္ခ်ီေတာ့ မကဘဲ ထြက္ထိုင္ေနလိုက္ဦးမယ္။ ❏ sitter n ၁။ ပံုတူအဆြဲခံသူ။ ၂။ ( infml ) = BABYSITTER ၃။ ( infml ) လည္စင္းေပးေနသည့္ အေကာင္။ I missed an absolute sitter. ❏ sit through sth [ PHRV ] ဆံုးခန္းတိုင္ေအာင္ ေအာင့္အည္း ေနသည္။ ဝဋ္ေႂကြးဆပ္သည္။ I can't sit through a long flight without something to read. ❏ sit tight [ IDM ] ၁။ သည္အတိုင္းဆက္ေနသည္။ All the others left in a hurry, but I sat tight. ၂။ ေခါင္းမာမာ ေပကတ္ေနသည္။ She threatened us with dismissal if we didn't agree, but we all sat tight. ❏ sitting n ၁။ တရား႐ံုးေတာ္၊ ပါလီမန္လႊတ္ေတာ္ စသည္ လုပ္ငန္းေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်ိန္။ a long sitting. ၂။ ထမင္းပြဲ တစ္သုတ္စာ ၾကာျမင့္ခ်ိန္။ The dining-hall is small, so there are two sittings for lunch. ထမင္းစားခန္းကက်ဥ္းေတာ့ တစ္ဝိုင္းစီ ႏွစ္သုတ္ခြဲေကြၽးရမယ္။ ❍ About 100 people can be served at one sitting. ေန႔လယ္စာ တစ္သုတ္မွာ လူ ၁၀၀ေလာက္ေကြၽး ႏိုင္တယ္။ ၃။ တစ္ထိုင္။ read a book at a single sitting. ၄။ (ဓာတ္ပံု၊ ပန္းခ်ီ အဆြဲ ခံရန္) ထိုင္၊ ေန ေပးျခင္း။ The portrait was completed after six sittings. ❏ sitting duck n အကာအကြယ္မဲ့ ပစ္ကြင္း၊ ပစ္မွတ္။ ❏ sitting-room n ( esp Brit ) = LIVING-ROOM ❏ sitting tenant n ( Brit ) တရားဝင္ပိုင္ခြင့္ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ရိွထားသည့္ အိမ္ငွား၊ အခန္းငွား။ It's difficult to sell a house with a sitting tenant. ❏ sit up (and take notice) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေခါင္းေထာင္ ထသည္။ I called her a hypocrite and that really made her sit up. ❍ The news made us all sit up and take notice. ❏ sit up (for sb) [ PHRV ] မအိပ္ဘဲ ထိုင္ၾကည့္သည္၊ ထိုင္ ေစာင့္သည္။ I'll get back late, so don't sit up (for me). ❍ The nurse sat up with the patient all night. ❍ We sat up late watching a show on TV. ❏ sit (sb) up [ PHRV ] (မတ္မတ္၊ ထူထူေထာင္ေထာင္)ထိုင္ သည္။ The patient is well enough to sit up in bed now. ❍ Sit up straight! ❏ sit-up n အိပ္၊ ထ၊ မ၊ တင္ ေလ့က်င့္ခန္း။ I do 50 sit-ups every morning.

Examples

1. [sit on a chair/bench/stool] : Matt sat on a park bench
2. eating his lunch.
3. [sit at a table/desk/computer] : I was sitting at my computer when the phone rang.
4. [sit in] : They were sitting in a café drinking coffee.
5. [sit together] : My friends and I like to sit together in the canteen.
6. [sit next to someone] : I usually sit next to Andrew in history.
7. [sit side by side] : We sat side by side in the back seat.
8. [sit around] : Six of us were sitting around the table talking.
9. [sit still] : Sit still (=without moving) while I brush your hair
10. Lucy.
11. [just sit there] : Are you going to just sit there
12. or are you going to help me?
13. He sat right on the cake.
14. Joanna sat the child on her lap and read him a story.
15. They sat in silence
16. unable to look at each other.
17. I ended up sitting in traffic for over an hour.
18. The house sits on top of a hill overlooking the countryside.
19. The tins looked as though they had been sitting on the shelf for months.
20. She sits on the boards of several large companies.
21. I’m sitting my French exam tomorrow.
22. [sit for] : She earns money sitting for artists.
23. [sit for] : I’m sitting for the Richardsons tomorrow night.
24. Most traders are sitting on their hands awaiting this afternoon's economic growth data.