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SQUATTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels
Synonyms:
squat; squatting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("squatting" is a kind of...):
motility; motion; move; movement (a change of position that does not entail a change of location)
Derivation:
squat (sit on one's heels)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
Synonyms:
knee bend; squat; squatting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("squatting" is a kind of...):
leg exercise (exercise designed to strengthen the leg muscles)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb squat
Context examples:
Two creatures like large armadillos had come down to the drinking-place, and were squatting at the edge of the water, their long, flexible tongues like red ribbons shooting in and out as they lapped.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was squatting down on his heels, face to face with White Fang and petting him—rubbing at the roots of the ears, making long caressing strokes down the neck to the shoulders, tapping the spine gently with the balls of his fingers.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I remember that as I dropped off to sleep my last recollection was that Challenger was squatting, like a monstrous bull-frog, by the fire, his huge head in his hands, sunk apparently in the deepest thought, and entirely oblivious to the good-night which I wished him.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
