session

plural sessions

1. A period of time devoted to a particular activity.

   jam session

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   counseling session

   a training 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

   2009, Michael Otto with Stefan G. Hofmann, Avoiding Treatment Failures in the Anxiety Disorders, page 137

2. 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.

3. computingThe 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.

4. ball gamesAny 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.
5. obsoletelifestyleThe act of sitting, or the state of being seated.

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

   [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)

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   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; […]

   1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Vivien”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 137–138

6. abbreviationellipsisentertainmentEllipsis of jam session, used in isolate particularly for folk music.
7. educationAn academic term; semester; school year.
8. beerAn extended period of drinking, typically consuming beer with low alcohol content.
9. PresbyterianismThe ruling body of a congregation, consisting of the pastor and elders.

present singular third person sessions · participle present sessioning · participle past sessioned · past sessioned

1. entertainmentTo 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.

   2009 May 3, Virginia Heffernan, “World Music”, in New York Times

plural Sessions

1. A surname.

1. Philippinesabbreviationellipsisuncountablechiefly BaguioEllipsis of Session Road.