sit out

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative form of sitout. alt-of,alternative
    — During seven NAACP-sponsored school “sit outs” or “holidays” in Jacksonville more than 108,000 children had been kept home by their parents to protest segregated schools and other inequities.
  2. Alternative form of sit-out. alt-of,alternative
    — The parent says, “If you don't start picking up your dirty clothes by the time I count to three, you will need to take a sit out.”
动词 v.
  1. To decline to participate; particularly, to decline to dance. ambitransitive
    — I don't like this tune, and I'm rather tired, so I think I'll just sit out.
  2. To await the cessation of, without taking part. transitive
    — A large proportion of the millhands sat out the strike in their native villages, sometimes hundreds of miles from Bombay; the remainder survived precariously in the city with the help of casual labour and rations of grain […]
  3. To be away from the table in the midst of an ongoing game, thus automatically placing one's forced bets and otherwise folding every hand when it is one's time to act.
  4. To lean out to the windward side of a sailboat in order to counterbalance the effects of the wind on the sails.
  5. To escape a hold while face down by swinging one's legs around into the sitting position.

词形变化

sits out present,singular,third-person sitting out participle,present sat out participle,past sat out past sit outs plural
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