SIT IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sit in mean? 

• SIT IN (verb)
  The verb SIT IN has 2 senses:

1. attend as a visitor

2. participate in an act of civil disobedience

  Familiarity information: SIT IN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIT IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Attend as a visitor

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

Can I sit in on your Intermediate Hittite class?

Hypernyms (to "sit in" is one way to...):

attend; go to (be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Participate in an act of civil disobedience

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "sit in" is one way to...):

disobey (refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

sit-in (a form of civil disobedience in which demonstrators occupy seats and refuse to move)

 Context examples 

It is evening; and I sit in the same chair, by the same bed, with the same face turned towards me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I sit in the shade—if any shade there be in this brilliantly-lit apartment; the window-curtain half hides me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sometimes she sit in canoe and is thinking far away, her eyes like that, all empty. She does not see Sitka Charley, nor the ice, nor the snow. She is far away.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Kitty and I are going up stairs to sit in my dressing-room.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

A Russian prince condescended to sit in a corner for an hour and talk with a massive lady, dressed like Hamlet's mother in black velvet with a pearl bridle under her chin.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Rather than exploring the normal protoplanetary discs, researchers looked at heavy discs around supermassive black holes that sit in the heart of galaxies.

(Thousands of Planets Could Be Orbiting around Black Holes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“I really do not care to sit in the high places,” I objected.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“I shall soon be rested,” said Fanny; “to sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure, is the most perfect refreshment.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Ah! my dear little coz, it is easy to sit in the sunshine and preach to the man in the shadow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the man in the tree answered, Lift up thine eyes, for behold here I sit in the sack of wisdom; here have I, in a short time, learned great and wondrous things.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)