Slump vs Sit - What's the difference?
slump | sit |
(lb) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
(lb) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
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, title= (lb) To slouch or droop.
(lb) To lump; to throw together messily.
* (1788-1856)
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
* (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
(Scotland, UK, dialect) A boggy place.
(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
(of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs (especially the upper legs) are supported by some object.
(of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
(of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
* Bible, Numbers xxxii. 6
* Shakespeare
(government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
(legal, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
* Jeremy Taylor
To be adjusted; to fit.
* Shakespeare
(of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
* 1874 , , (w), XX
To accommodate in seats; to seat.
shortened form of babysit.
(US) To babysit
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
* Bible, Jer. xvii. 11
To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
* Selden
* Sir Walter Scott
(rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
In intransitive terms the difference between slump and sit
is that slump is to slouch or droop while sit is shortened form of babysit.In transitive terms the difference between slump and sit
is that slump is to lump; to throw together messily while sit is to accommodate in seats; to seat.slump
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Verb
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- These different groupsare exclusively slumped together under that sense.
- The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump .
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(en noun)Derived terms
* slumplikeAnagrams
* * ----sit
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Verb
- After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
- I asked him to sit .
- The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
- And Moses said to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
- Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
- I currently sit on a standards committee.
- In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.
- The calamity sits heavy on us.
- Your new coat sits well.
- This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, / Sits not so easy on me as you think.
- 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.
- Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
- The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
- I sat me weary on a pillar's base, / And leaned against the shaft
- I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.
- I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
- The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
- I'm sitting for a painter this evening.
- like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits
- Sits the wind in that quarter?
Conjugation
* An obsolete form of the simple past is (m) and of the past participle is (m).Entryabout past simple sate in Webster's dictionary