Sitter

/'sitə/
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Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A person who sits, especially for a portrait or photograph: A sitter is someone who adopts and maintains a seated position, typically to have their likeness captured by an artist or photographer.
    • A person employed to care for children, usually in the child's own home: A sitter is someone temporarily hired to supervise and look after children while the parents are away.
    • A brooding hen: In ornithology, a sitter is a female bird, particularly a domestic hen, that sits on eggs to incubate them.
    • An easy target or task: (Informal) A sitter refers to something very easy to achieve, such as an unchallenging shot in sports or a simple job.
    • (Capitalized) A surname: Specifically, Willem de Sitter, a notable Dutch astronomer.
Usage Examples
  • Noun (Person posing):
    • The painter asked his sitter to remain perfectly still.
    • She was a patient sitter for the sculptor.
  • Noun (Childcare provider):
    • We hired a sitter for Saturday night so we could go to the concert.
    • The sitter read stories to the children before bedtime.
  • Noun (Brooding hen):
    • The sitter refused to leave her nest.
    • We have a good sitter for this clutch of eggs.
  • Noun (Easy task):
    • The goalkeeper missed a real sitter, an open goal from three meters out.
    • That exam question was an absolute sitter.
Advanced Usage
  • "be a sitter": To be an easy or obvious opportunity.
    • With the defense out of position, it was a sitter for the striker.
  • Used in compound form in specific fields (e.g., "artist's sitter").
Variants and Related Words
  • Babysitter (n): The more common, specific term for a person who cares for children. (Note: This is a distinct compound word).
  • Housesitter (n): A person who stays in and looks after a house while the owner is away.
  • Sitting (n): The period during which a person poses for an artist or the act of caring for children.
Synonyms
  • Model: (for a person posing).
  • Childminder / Nanny: (for a childcare provider, though these often imply more regular employment).
  • Broody hen: (for a bird).
  • Gimme / Easy mark: (informal, for an easy task).
Related Phrases
  • "An easy sitter": Emphasizes that something is very straightforward or effortless.
    • The penalty kick was an easy sitter for the experienced player.
Related Idioms
  • "Like shooting fish in a barrel": This idiom shares the connotation of being extremely easy, similar to the informal use of "sitter."
    • Selling ice cream on a hot day is like shooting fish in a barrel—a real sitter.
Noun
  1. a domestic hen ready to brood
  2. a person who poses for a painter or sculptor
  3. a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home
  4. an organism (person or animal) that sits
  5. Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)

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