Difference between Posing and Sitting

What is the difference between Posing and Sitting?

Posing as a verb is to place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect. while Sitting as a verb is (of a person) to be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.

Posing

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect.

Example sentence: There was always something sickening about tourists taking pictures of themselves posing in front of that big gaping hole called Ground Zero.

Sitting

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a period during which one is seated for a specific purposea legislative sessionthe act (of a bird) of incubating eggs; the clutch of eggs under a brooding bird

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: executed from a sitting positionoccupying a specific official or legal position; incumbent

Example sentence: The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

We hope you now know whether to use Posing or Sitting in your sentence.

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