sittings
Portrait painter's bookings
Sittings are sessions or periods devoted to a particular activity.
A court holds sittings when it convenes to hear cases.
A restaurant may have two sittings for dinner—separate time slots for different groups of diners.
An artist's model poses during sittings.
A legislative body's sittings are its formal meetings: Parliament resumed its sittings after the recess.
National legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
lawmaking · bills · debate · enactment · statutes · legislation · representatives · quorum
Aid or maintenance
- reservationAdvance arrangement to hold
- diningEating a meal
- guestsPeople received hospitably
- coursePlanned path forward
banquet · restaurant · table · capacity · rotation · booking · cover · turnover
Perceiving sound waves
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- proceedingsSequence of formal events
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
evidence · judgment · bench · dock · witness · deliberation · verdict · case
parliament
National legislative assembly
- senateLegislative governing body
- assemblyConstructing from components
- sessionScheduled time for activity
chamber · lawmaking · bills · debate · enactment · statutes · legislation · representatives · quorum · recess
service
Aid or maintenance
- reservationAdvance arrangement to hold
- diningEating a meal
- guestsPeople received hospitably
course · banquet · restaurant · table · capacity · rotation · booking · cover · turnover · buffet
hearing
Perceiving sound waves
- tribunalJudicial decision-making body
- trialJudicial examination of claims
- proceedingsSequence of formal events
testimony · evidence · judgment · bench · dock · witness · deliberation · verdict · case · magistrate
posing
Assuming an attitude
commission · likeness · appointment · painter · easel · subject · canvas · session · sketch · rendering
zazen
Zen seated meditation
- cushionStuffed fabric for comfort
- lotusSacred aquatic flower
- cross-leggedSeated with ankles overlapped
mindfulness · retreat · practice · stillness · posture · session · sangha · zendo · vipassana · duration
- portraitsportrait, portraits, headshot, headshots, self-portrait
- parliamentparliament, bills, votes, vote, debate
sittingsadjournments
Temporary suspensions of proceedings
recesses · dissolutions · breaks · intermissions · suspensions
- sitting downAssuming a seated position
- sitting stillSeated without movement
- sitting aroundBeing idle somewhere
- sitting outDeclining to participate
- sitting upBody raised vertical
- sitting duckDefenseless person or thing