Sitter
noun
A person who takes care of a baby or child while their parents or guardians are not present.
Sarah needed a sitter for her children when she went to work.
Often appears as...
- baby sitter
- child sitter
noun
A person posed seated for a portrait or photograph.
The artist asked the sitter to hold still.
Often appears as...
- portrait sitter
- patient sitter
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Technical
noun
In baseball, a very easy pitch to hit.
The pitcher threw him a sitter.
Often appears as...
- curveball sitter
- fastball sitter
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Colloquial
noun
In soccer, an easy opportunity to score a goal.
He missed an absolute sitter.
Often appears as...
- goal sitter
- open sitter
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Colloquial
noun
In tennis, an easy ball to return due to its slow speed and high bounce.
She nailed an overhead smash off a sitter.
Often appears as...
- backhand sitter
- forehand sitter
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Colloquial
noun
A person who takes care of a baby or child while their parents or guardians are not present.
Sarah needed a sitter for her children when she went to work.
Often appears as...
- baby sitter
- child sitter
noun
A person posed seated for a portrait or photograph.
The artist asked the sitter to hold still.
Often appears as...
- portrait sitter
- patient sitter
Usage tips
Technical
noun
In baseball, a very easy pitch to hit.
The pitcher threw him a sitter.
Often appears as...
- curveball sitter
- fastball sitter
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
In soccer, an easy opportunity to score a goal.
He missed an absolute sitter.
Often appears as...
- goal sitter
- open sitter
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
In tennis, an easy ball to return due to its slow speed and high bounce.
She nailed an overhead smash off a sitter.
Often appears as...
- backhand sitter
- forehand sitter
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Temporary Caregiver
A sitter is someone who temporarily takes care of children, not a permanent guardian.
We’re hiring a sitter for just the weekend.
Pro Tip 2/2Short-term Job
'Sitter' often implies a casual or part-time job rather than a career.
My neighbor is a sitter; she helps us out sometimes.
Pro Tip 1/2Temporary Caregiver
A sitter is someone who temporarily takes care of children, not a permanent guardian.
We’re hiring a sitter for just the weekend.
Pro Tip 2/2Short-term Job
'Sitter' often implies a casual or part-time job rather than a career.
My neighbor is a sitter; she helps us out sometimes.
Pro Tip 1/2Temporary Caregiver
A sitter is someone who temporarily takes care of children, not a permanent guardian.
We’re hiring a sitter for just the weekend.
Pro Tip 2/2Short-term Job
'Sitter' often implies a casual or part-time job rather than a career.
My neighbor is a sitter; she helps us out sometimes.
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Safari Live - Day 242 PIPE...
though their babies they can still pick up potential danger around them but the mother will be far more susceptible to it and defend that one as one is even older cough that all the cough will also come to the aid of this fertile one and so it's more up to them than it is the baby sitter take danger around them but
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Finding support in...
got back from the hospital she didn't know who we were not only did she lose a big chunk of her memory but she used to have seizures which meant she couldn't be left alone my family did the best we could we didn't have a lot of money we couldn't afford sitters but we rallied
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Penguins Do the Wave to...
up to see what was happening as Penguins move in generally from the rear penguins in the huddle make small steps in a formation to help the tightly formed mass remain intact sitter Bart and his colleagues point out that it is crucial that the huddle is continually
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404, the story of a page...
so this turned into a contest daily path had offers inspiration put inspiration on there 404 page stay hound which helps you find pet sitters through your social network commiserated with your pet right now each one of them found this it
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Francis de los Reyes:...
and not just disposal but reuse. So let's start with the human user interface. I say, it doesn't matter if you're a washer or a wiper, a sitter or a squatter, the human user interface should be clean and easy to use, because after all,
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Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
express and maintain their status but sadly it's this body language that is far too often misunderstood as being vicious and evil but really it's only a language this is motsi the beta wolf the peacemaker and puppy sitter or guardian
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Should Primates be Kept...
cat. You got to think about its emotions, its feelings, their diet. Just to get a vet for a primate is a task in itself. There is no monkey sitter, there is no vacation. It is difficult to get a hotel room when you have a monkey.
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Budgie Courtship Ritual...
no he has a retention females prefer males that really shine the more his plumage absorbs UV sitter and healthy are here she's impressed and invites him to premium the budgie sensory world continues under our radar as it does
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Renny Gleeson: 404, the...
So this turned into a contest. Dailypath that offers inspiration put inspiration on their 404 page. Stayhound, which helps you find pet sitters through your social network, commiserated with your pet.
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A fascinating time...
They ran the spectrum from the mundane, so, a robot house cleaner, anyone? Through to the mischievous, the idea of a robot pet sitter, or maybe a robot lawyer, or maybe a sex partner.
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Safari Live - Day 242 PIPE...
though their babies they can still pick up potential danger around them but the mother will be far more susceptible to it and defend that one as one is even older cough that all the cough will also come to the aid of this fertile one and so it's more up to them than it is the baby sitter take danger around them but
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Finding support in...
got back from the hospital she didn't know who we were not only did she lose a big chunk of her memory but she used to have seizures which meant she couldn't be left alone my family did the best we could we didn't have a lot of money we couldn't afford sitters but we rallied
Video examples
Penguins Do the Wave to...
up to see what was happening as Penguins move in generally from the rear penguins in the huddle make small steps in a formation to help the tightly formed mass remain intact sitter Bart and his colleagues point out that it is crucial that the huddle is continually
Video examples
404, the story of a page...
so this turned into a contest daily path had offers inspiration put inspiration on there 404 page stay hound which helps you find pet sitters through your social network commiserated with your pet right now each one of them found this it
Video examples
Francis de los Reyes:...
and not just disposal but reuse. So let's start with the human user interface. I say, it doesn't matter if you're a washer or a wiper, a sitter or a squatter, the human user interface should be clean and easy to use, because after all,
Video examples
Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
express and maintain their status but sadly it's this body language that is far too often misunderstood as being vicious and evil but really it's only a language this is motsi the beta wolf the peacemaker and puppy sitter or guardian
Video examples
Should Primates be Kept...
cat. You got to think about its emotions, its feelings, their diet. Just to get a vet for a primate is a task in itself. There is no monkey sitter, there is no vacation. It is difficult to get a hotel room when you have a monkey.
Video examples
Budgie Courtship Ritual...
no he has a retention females prefer males that really shine the more his plumage absorbs UV sitter and healthy are here she's impressed and invites him to premium the budgie sensory world continues under our radar as it does
Video examples
Renny Gleeson: 404, the...
So this turned into a contest. Dailypath that offers inspiration put inspiration on their 404 page. Stayhound, which helps you find pet sitters through your social network, commiserated with your pet.
Video examples
A fascinating time...
They ran the spectrum from the mundane, so, a robot house cleaner, anyone? Through to the mischievous, the idea of a robot pet sitter, or maybe a robot lawyer, or maybe a sex partner.
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Hilton Als
American Writer
I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure.
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Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
What the bride should do is call guests who have young children and say: 'I'd love to have the kids at the wedding, but we won't have room. Would you get a baby sitter, and when we get back from our honeymoon, we'll have you guys over?
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Patricia Heaton
American Actress
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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Jacob Epstein
British Sculptor
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
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Martha Plimpton
American Model
I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.
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Eminem
American Rapper
It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
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Lucian Freud
British Artist
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Luis Guzman
Actor
TV is not a baby sitter.
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Hilton Als
American Writer
I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure.
Quote examples
Letitia Baldrige
American Writer
What the bride should do is call guests who have young children and say: 'I'd love to have the kids at the wedding, but we won't have room. Would you get a baby sitter, and when we get back from our honeymoon, we'll have you guys over?
Quote examples
Patricia Heaton
American Actress
We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
Quote examples
Jacob Epstein
British Sculptor
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
Quote examples
Martha Plimpton
American Model
I've had cats all my life and obviously loved them, but the litter box, and the having to always get a house sitter, they're just too - they're too rigid. Cats are too needy somehow.
Quote examples
Eminem
American Rapper
It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter.
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Lucian Freud
British Artist
I would wish my portraits to be of the people, not like them. Not having a look of the sitter, being them.
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Kehinde Wiley
American Artist
Painting has the ability to communicate something about the sitter that gets to his essence.
Quote examples
Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Luis Guzman
Actor
TV is not a baby sitter.
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