sits

1. 1
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of sit.

   He sits quietly while the others argue across the table.

   The old farmhouse sits on a hill above the river.

   Note

   The -s ending marks agreement with a single third-person subject: she sits, the committee sits, the house sits on a hill. Several meanings of the verb naturally take such a subject. A court sits when it is in session, a member sits on a board, and a town sits in a valley. With I, you, we or they, the bare form returns: they sit, we sit.

2. 2
   noun

   Plural of sit.

   The retreat scheduled three quiet meditation sits each day.

   Several long sits at the desk left her shoulders stiff by evening.

   Note

   One spelling covers several unrelated count nouns. Meditators speak of their daily sits, and miners use sits for places where a coal-mine roof has subsided. In informal speech, sit is a clipping of situation. As an initialism, SITs can also be Special Investigation Teams in India. Every one of these looks exactly like the present-tense verb. A number or determiner, as in three sits, shows that the word is a noun.

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