Session Body English Noun Meeting Sitting Period Court

ses·sion

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\\ˈse-shən\\ noun1. a meeting or series of meetings of a body (as a court or legislature) for the transaction of business
    morning session
2. plural
  a.
    (1) a sitting of English justices of peace in execution of the powers conferred by their commissions
    (2) an English court holding such sessions
  b. any of various courts similar to the English sessions
3. the period between the first meeting of a legislative or judicial body and the prorogation or final adjournment
4. the ruling body of a Presbyterian congregation consisting of the elders in active service
5. the period during the year or day in which a school conducts classes
6. a meeting or period devoted to a particular activity
    a recording session
• ses·sion·al \\ˈsesh-nəl, ˈse-shə-n^əl\\ adjective

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adjective: employed to perform at recording sessions
    a session drummer

session
  late 14c., "periodical sitting of a court," from O.Fr. session, from L. sessionem (nom. sessio) "act of sitting," from pp. stem of sedere "to sit" (see sedentary). Sense of "period set aside for some activity" is first recorded 1920, in bull session, probably from quarter sessions courts (see quarter). Musical sense of "recording occasion in a studio" is from 1927.

☞ session
ses·sion / 5seFn / noun1. a period of time that is spent doing a particular activity
   一场；一节；一段时间:
   a photo / recording / training, etc. session
   拍照、录音、训练等时段
   The course is made up of 12 two-hour sessions.
   这门课总共上 12 次,每次两小时。
⇨ see also

jam session

2. a formal meeting or series of meetings of a court, a parliament, etc.; a period of time when such meetings are held
   (法庭的)开庭,开庭期；(议会等的)会议,会期:
   a session of the UN General Assembly
   一届联合国大会
   The court is now in session.
   法庭现在正在开庭。
   The committee met in closed session (= with nobody else present).
   委员会举行了秘密会议。
⇨ see also

quarter sessions

3. a school or university year
   学年
4. an occasion when people meet to play music, especially Irish music, in a pub / bar
   (酒吧中)演奏会(尤指演奏爱尔兰音乐)

session noun

ses·sion
\ˈseshən\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin session-, sessio act of sitting, session, from sessus (past participle of sedēre to sit) + -ion-, -io -ion — more at
1. : an actual or constructive sitting of a body (as a court, council, or legislature); also : the actual or constructive assembly of the members of such a body for the transaction of business
 < morning session >
 < evening session >
 < read the letters to the House in secret session — C.L.Becker >
2. sessions plural
 a. English law
  (1) : a sitting of justices of the peace in execution of the powers conferred by their commissions — see , ,
  (2) : an English court holding such sessions
 b. : any of various courts answering more or less to the English sessions
3. usually capitalized, Scots law :
4. : the time, period, or term during which a body (as a court, council, or legislature) meets regularly for business : the space of time between the first meeting and the prorogation or final adjournment
 < biennial legislative sessions >
— see
5.
 a. : Jesus Christ's sitting at the right hand of God
 b. archaic : the action of sitting : a being seated
6. : the ruling body of a Presbyterian congregation consisting of the elders in active service moderated by the pastor and exercising the government and discipline of the church and often also direct control of its temporal affairs — compare ,
7.
 a. chiefly Scotland :
 b. : 4
  < summer session >
 c. : the part of the day during which a public school conducts classes
  < many overcrowded schools have double sessions >
 d. : 11a
8. : a group of students in a Salvation Army officers' training school having the same year of graduation
9. : a period usually in a series devoted to a particular activity especially by a group of persons
 < recording session >
 < briefing session >
 < were in for a session of mental improvement — S.H.Adams >
 < square dance sessions will be held weekly — Walter Terry >
 < neglected his tennis sessions — George Sklar >
 < one session with a mop — A.W.Baum >
— see ,

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