Setting vs. Sitting — What's the Difference?

The position, direction, or way in which something, such as an automatic control, is set.

Sitting is a basic action and resting position in which the body weight is supported primarily by the bony ischial tuberosities with the buttocks in contact with the ground or a horizontal surface such as a chair seat, instead of by the lower limbs as in standing, squatting or kneeling. When sitting, the torso is more or less upright, although sometimes it can lean against other objects for a more relaxed posture.

The context and environment in which a situation is set; the background.

A continuous period of being seated, especially when engaged in a particular activity

The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place.

A scheduled period of time when a number of people are served a meal, especially in a restaurant

(Music) A composition written or arranged to fit a text, such as a poetical work.

A period of time during which a committee or parliament is engaged in its normal business

A mounting, as for a jewel.

In a seated position

A place setting.

(of an MP or other elected representative) current; present

A set of eggs in a hen's nest.

(of a hen or other bird) settled on eggs for the purpose of incubating them.

Present participle of set

The act or position of one that sits.

The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.

A period during which one is seated and occupied with a single activity, such as posing for a portrait or reading a book.

The act of setting.

A session or term, as of a legislature or court.

A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.

An act, condition, or period of brooding on eggs by a bird; incubation.

A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.

The number of eggs under a brooding bird; a clutch.

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.

Incubating a nest of eggs

Hunting with a setter.

Occupying an official position; incumbent.

Something set in, or inserted.

Of or for sitting

A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).

Done or executed while sitting.

The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.

A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose.

The direction of a current of wind.

A seance or other session with a medium or fortuneteller.

That disappears below the horizon

A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc.

The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.

The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted.

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.

A legislative session (in the sense of "meeting", not "period").

Something set in, or inserted.

The incubation of eggs by a bird.

That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.

A clutch of eggs laid by a brooding bird.

The time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel.

Uninterrupted application to anything for a time; the period during which one continues at anything.

The context and environment in which something is set;

Present participle of sit

The state of the environment in which a situation exists;

Executed from a sitting position.

Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

Occupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent.

The physical position of something;

Being in the state, or the position, of one who, or that which, sits.

A table service for one person;

The state or act of one who sits; the posture of one who occupies a seat.

Mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place;

A seat, or the space occupied by or allotted for a person, in a church, theater, etc.; as, the hall has 800 sittings.

(of a heavenly body) disappearing below the horizon;

The act or time of sitting, as to a portrait painter, photographer, etc.

The actual presence or meeting of any body of men in their seats, clothed with authority to transact business; a session; as, a sitting of the judges of the King's Bench, or of a commission.

The time during which one sits while doing something, as reading a book, playing a game, etc.

A brooding over eggs for hatching, as by fowls.

(photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait);

The act of assuming or maintaining a seated position;

A meeting of spiritualists;

A session as of a legislature or court

(of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks;

Not moving and therefore easy to attack;