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Session
//ˈsɛ.ʃən// name, noun, verb
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 Ellipsis of Session Road. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
Noun
- 1 A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
"counseling session"
- 2 a meeting devoted to a particular activity wordnet
- 3 An official meeting or term of a council, court, or other body to conduct its business; e.g. the annual or semiannual periods of a legislature (that together comprise the legislative term), whose individual meetings are also called sessions.
"This court is now in session."
- 4 a meeting for execution of a group's functions wordnet
- 5 The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
"Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session."
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- 6 a meeting of spiritualists wordnet
- 7 Any of the three scheduled two-hour playing sessions, from the start of play to lunch, from lunch to tea and from tea to the close of play.
- 8 the time during which a school holds classes wordnet
- 9 The act of sitting, or the state of being seated. obsolete
"So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import."
- 10 Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
- 11 An academic term; semester; school year.
- 12 An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
- 13 The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
Verb
- 1 To hold or participate in a jam session with other musicians.
"“I downloaded a clip from a drummer, who I now realize is Bernard Purdie, who has sessioned on all kinds of records,” he said."
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
Etymology 2
From Middle English session, from Old French session, from Latin sessiō (“a sitting”), from sedeō (“sit”).
Etymology 3
Variant of Sessions.
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