Meaning of session | Babel Free

Definitions

1. session (meeting)
2. A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
3. A surname.
4. Ellipsis of Session Road.
   Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable
5. showing (in a cinema, theatre etc.)
6. sesión.
7. 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.
8. session (period of time)
9. A meeting of a legislative or judicial body for the purpose of transacting business.
10. The sequence of interactions between client and server, or between user and system; the period during which a user is logged in or connected.
11. session (e.g. with a doctor, physio, psychologist)
12. The part of a year or of a day during which a school holds classes.
13. 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.
14. A period of time devoted to a specific activity: a recording session at a music studio; a login session that was disrupted by a power outage.
15. The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
    obsolete
16. (Law) the meeting of a court, legislature, judicial body, etc, for the execution of its function or the transaction of business
17. Ellipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
    abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
18. (Law) a single continuous meeting of such a body
19. An academic term; semester; school year.
20. (Law) a series or period of such meetings
21. An extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
22. (Education) education a. the time during which classes are held
    education
23. The ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.
24. (Protestantism) Presbyterian Church the judicial and administrative body presiding over a local congregation and consisting of the minister and elders
    Presbyterian Church
25. (Music, other) a meeting of a group of musicians to record in a studio

Equivalents

Examples

“counseling session”

“a training session”

“jam session”

“"Are we having a recording session?" / "Yes. We've even got some session musicians to provide some brass."”

“Alternatively, if the patient is stuck ritualizing before session, then the therapist might want to create contingencies that might help the patient come in on time”

“This court is now in session.”

“Logging out or shutting down the computer will end your session.”

“So much his ascension into heaven and his session at the right hand of God do import.”

“But Vivien, gathering somewhat of his mood, / And hearing 'harlot' mutter'd twice or thrice, / Leapt from her session on his lap, and stood, / Stiff as a viper frozen; […]”

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