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sitter
1[sit-er]
Sitter
2[sit-er]
noun
Willem de 1872–1934, Dutch astronomer and mathematician.
sitter
1/ ˈsɪtə /
noun
a person or animal that sits
a person who is posing for his or her portrait to be painted, carved, etc
a broody hen or other bird that is sitting on its eggs to hatch them
(in combination) a person who looks after a specified person or thing for someone else
flat-sitter
short for baby-sitter
anyone, other than the medium, taking part in a seance
anything that is extremely easy, such as an easy catch in cricket
Sitter
2/ ˈsɪtə /
noun
Willem de (ˈwɪləm də). 1872–1934, Dutch astronomer, who calculated the size of the universe and conceived of it as expanding
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Example Sentences
In related fashion, a Cubist portrait offers separate aspects of the sitter’s face at a glance.
A reliable pet sitter, especially at the last minute, is as hard to come by as a free street parking spot in Koreatown on a Friday night.
Even if she had paid for a sitter for 10 hours at $25 an hour, she would have saved thousands.
Matt Short should have been run out without scoring in the same over but Shubman Gill missed a sitter with the throw and he survived.
The sitter had to be one of only nine black soldiers known to have been awarded the Waterloo Medal, as seen in the portrait, the museum's art curator Anna Lavelle said.
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