set vs sit
Definitions
noun
- evil Egyptian god with the head of a beast that has high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris
Examples
WorldCom promises not to impose a minimum call charge and no set up or monthly rental fee.
Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Definitions
verb
- sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- take a seat
- show to a seat; assign a seat for
- be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- be seated
Examples
The unit can connect to any video source that has composite video and stereo audio RCA jacks, though the encoded audio is limited to mono.
That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
He made a very positive contribution to the overall success of the project.
