sat

Meaning of sat

verb
  1. (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
    After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
  2. (of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
    I asked him to sit.
  3. (of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
    The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
  4. To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
  5. To be a member of a deliberative body.
    I currently sit on a standards committee.
  6. 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.
  8. To be adjusted; to fit.
    Your new coat sits well.
  9. (of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
    How will this new contract sit with the workers?
  10. (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. To accommodate in seats; to seat.
    The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
  12. To babysit.
    I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
  13. To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
  14. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
  15. 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.
  16. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
noun
  1. A moon or other smaller body orbiting a larger one.
    A spent upper stage is a derelict satellite.
  2. A man-made apparatus designed to be placed in orbit around a celestial body, generally to relay information, data etc. to Earth.
    Many telecommunication satellites orbit at 36000km above the equator.
  3. A country, state, office, building etc. which is under the jurisdiction, influence, or domination of another body.
  4. An attendant on an important person; a member of someone's retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman.
  5. Satellite TV; reception of television broadcasts via services that utilize man-made satellite technology.
    Do you have satellite at your house?
  6. (grammar) A grammatical construct that takes various forms and may encode a path of movement, a change of state, or the grammatical aspect. Examples: "a bird flew past"; "she turned on the light".

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Hyphenation of sat

sat

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
  • sat is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

sat synonyms

Meaning Saturday:

Saturday, Sat

Meaning :

accepted, received, welcomed, well, be, found, situated, seat

Anagrams of sat

ast, Ats, Sta, Tas, tas

Words that rhyme with sat

Sat, Asat, basat, nasat, Wasat, Landsat, landsat, besat, resat, housesat, langsat, bodhisat, Marisat, hydrocortisat, Intelsat, intelsat, smallsat, Comsat, comsat, lansat, Iosat, aerosat, inbassat, savssat, outsat, babysat

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