session
Forms
- Plural
- sessions
- present (v1)
- session
- past (v2)
- sessioned
- past participle (v3)
- sessioned
- present participle
- sessioning
- 3rd person singular
- sessions
Definitions
1.A period of time devoted to a particular activity.
- "Are we having a recording session?" / "Yes. We've even got some session musicians to provide some brass."
2.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.
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.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.
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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1620
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
From Middle English session
From Old French session
From Latin sessiō (“a sitting”)
From sedeō (“sit”).