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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sitter
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
baby
▪ Probably they couldn't get a baby sitter.
▪ As a consequence, Marcia has had to hire baby sitters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A sitter will help a patient to the bathroom, and deliver a meal.
▪ A microchip in a couch will sense the presence of a sitter and turn the heat up in the room.
▪ I have no interest in the psychological interpretation of my sitters, I want to convey their physical appearance.
▪ It wasn't a case of missing sitters and throwing away chances more of being so near and yet so far.
▪ The conventional format and heroic pose of the sitter are perfectly offset by the incongruity of the costume and title.
▪ The growing use of sitters reflects the turmoil in health care during the 1990s.
▪ They are also quite intimidating, as they confront sitters with three-foot icons in their own image.
▪ We talked a lot about art - he couldn't have been a better sitter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sitter

Sitter \Sit"ter\, n.

  1. One who sits; esp., one who sits for a portrait or a bust.

  2. A bird that sits or incubates.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sitter

c.1300, "one that sits," agent noun from sit (v.). As short for baby-sitter from 1937.

Wiktionary
sitter

n. 1 Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait. 2 One employed to watch or tend something; the general form of babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc. 3 A broody hen. 4 (context football and snooker slang English) A very easy scoring chance.

WordNet
Wikipedia
Sitter (BEAM)

In BEAM robotics, a sitter is a type of robot that does not move. Such robots have no self-contained means of transportation and are non-mobile. Instead of moving, sitters are usually designed to power lights in some sort of pattern. Most sitters are built as decorations rather than serving a practical purpose.

As sitters usually have few parts and are not very complicated to build, many newcomers to BEAM robotics start with sitters, as they are a good place to begin learning the basics of the hobby.

Sitter

Sitter may refer to:

  • Babysitter, one who temporarily cares for a child
  • Trip sitter, onen who remains sober while another person is under the influence of a drug
  • Companion (caregiving), one who is hired to work with a patient
  • Sitter (BEAM), a type of robot that does not move
  • The Sitter (1991 film), starring Kim Myers
  • The Sitter (2007 film) or While the Children Sleep, starring Mariana Klaveno
  • The Sitter, a 2011 film starring Jonah Hill
  • Sitter (river), a river, which flows through the cantons of both Appenzells, St. Gallen, Thurgau, and Zurich in Switzerland
  • Sitters, a municipality in Germany
  • Sitter, one who sits as the subject of a portrait painting

Usage examples of "sitter".

Long he abode in that chamber looking at the arras, and wondering whether the sitter in the ivory throne would be any other than the thrall in the greenwood cot.

But Gleed had handled sitters before, the only difference being that this one was cold sober.

But Sergeant Gleed had handled sitters before, the only difference being that this one was cold sober.

Round, moonish faces glowed above the sitters, bringing amazed gasps from them.

Now Talene was tethered tighter than Meidani, closely guarded even if she did appear to walk free -- how to keep a Sitter prisoner without anyone noticing had been beyond even Saerin -- and she was pathetically eager to offer up every scrap she knew or even suspected in hope it might save her life, not that she had any choice.

I admit that I find it very interesting that Toller and Delmont made such similar predictions to their sitters.

Delmont and Toller summoned spirits who gave financial advice to some of the sitters but not to others.

Too, he could hardly make his rent, and Miranda earned zilch from her occasional jobs as a pet sitter for clueless spinsters.

Lucian asked a question or two and the five came down the aisle, one pair leading, the other following, and Julian between, alone, overpeering all sitters, with a splendid air of being commander and in the saddle.

The pair of Aes Sedai channeling at the table nearest the entrance, Kairen and Ashmanaille, had an audience of two as well, Janya Frende, a Sitter for the Brown, and Salita Toranes, a Sitter for the Yellow.

Raised in Salidar, Salita was part of a disturbing pattern: too many Sitters who were too young for the position.

Aes Sedai channeling at the table nearest the entrance, Kairen and Ashmanaille, had an audience of two as well, Janya Frende, a Sitter for the Brown, and Salita Toranes, a Sitter for the Yellow.

Along the circular wall stood the shawl-draped Sitters in the Hall of the Tower, grouped by Ajah, and in front of each three Sitters, two more sisters of that Ajah, shawled and each with another shawl folded over one arm.

Sitters of any Ajah that fails to send its fair share of sisters to work on the chain towers will take a daily penance from Silviana until the matter is rectified.

Worse than fireweed or stranglervine could grow if that seed was allowed to sprout, but the Gray Sitter had sheltered herself from blame very neatly.