ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SIEGE
From Old French sege a seat, from Vulgar Latin sēdicāre (unattested) to sit down, from Latin sedēre.
CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SIEGE
PRESENT
Present
I siege
you siege
he/she/it sieges
we siege
you siege
they siege
Present continuous
I am sieging
you are sieging
he/she/it is sieging
we are sieging
you are sieging
they are sieging
Present perfect
I have sieged
you have sieged
he/she/it has sieged
we have sieged
you have sieged
they have sieged
Present perfect continuous
I have been sieging
you have been sieging
he/she/it has been sieging
we have been sieging
you have been sieging
they have been sieging
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I sieged
you sieged
he/she/it sieged
we sieged
you sieged
they sieged
Past continuous
I was sieging
you were sieging
he/she/it was sieging
we were sieging
you were sieging
they were sieging
Past perfect
I had sieged
you had sieged
he/she/it had sieged
we had sieged
you had sieged
they had sieged
Past perfect continuous
I had been sieging
you had been sieging
he/she/it had been sieging
we had been sieging
you had been sieging
they had been sieging
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will siege
you will siege
he/she/it will siege
we will siege
you will siege
they will siege
Future continuous
I will be sieging
you will be sieging
he/she/it will be sieging
we will be sieging
you will be sieging
they will be sieging
Future perfect
I will have sieged
you will have sieged
he/she/it will have sieged
we will have sieged
you will have sieged
they will have sieged
Future perfect continuous
I will have been sieging
you will have been sieging
he/she/it will have been sieging
we will have been sieging
you will have been sieging
they will have been sieging
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would siege
you would siege
he/she/it would siege
we would siege
you would siege
they would siege
Conditional continuous
I would be sieging
you would be sieging
he/she/it would be sieging
we would be sieging
you would be sieging
they would be sieging
Conditional perfect
I would have siege
you would have siege
he/she/it would have siege
we would have siege
you would have siege
they would have siege
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been sieging
you would have been sieging
he/she/it would have been sieging
we would have been sieging
you would have been sieging
they would have been sieging
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you siege
we let´s siege
you siege
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Present Participle
sieging
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 QUOTES WITH «SIEGE»
Famous quotes and sentences with the word
siege.
If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.
I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder.
We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SIEGE»
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siege in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
siege and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Leningrad in 1941, an intricately woven tapestry of love and war follows the Levin family--twenty-two-year-old Anna, her young brother Kolya, and their father, Mikhail--as they struggle to survive ...
2
The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel
With a deep understanding of the region and its politics and a narrative flair reminiscent of Midnight in Peking, journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy vividly unfold the tragic events in a real-life thriller filled with suspense, ...
Cathy Scott-Clark, Adrian Levy, 2013
3
Bodies under
Siege: Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal ...
This new edition examines the explosive growth in the incidence of self-injurious behaviors and body modification practices.
The X-Men's oldest and deadliest enemy, Magneto, has taken over the Sentinels, powerful mutant-hunting robots, and the X-Men must fight the Acolytes, Magneto's mutant followers, and the United States government, which holds the X-Men ...
Provides detailed descriptions and illustrations of techniques, engines, and artillery used in siege warfare during the Middle Ages.
Christopher Gravett, 1990
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The Medieval City Under
Siege
(This) substantial book...makes an important and stimulating contribution. MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Ivy A. Corfis, Michael Wolfe, 1999
7
Siege: A Novel of the Eastern Front, 1942
A chilling and authentic historical novel follows the fates of three ordinary German soldiers who become caught up in the desperate siege of the northern Russian town of Cholm, where several thousand exhausted German soldiers battle the ...
8
The
Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453: ...
A major study and an essential reference work, this book presents a critical evaluation of the sources on the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.
Marios Philippides, Walter K. Hanak, 2011
9
Cultures Under
Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma
Interdisciplinary study of collective violence offering insights into darker side of humanity.
Antonius C. G. M. Robben, Marcelo Su'arez-Orozco, 2000
10
Sarajevo Under
Siege: Anthropology in Wartime
"Ivana Macek, an anthropologist who grew up in the former Yugoslavia, argues that the division of Bosnians into antagonistic ethnonational groups was the result rather than the cause of the war, a view that was not only generally assumed by ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SIEGE»
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siege is used in the context of the following news items.
Bunbury siege: Man 'with explosives strapped to body' takes …
A siege is underway in Western Australia after a man alleged to have explosives strapped to his body took a hostage. Police have surrounded a park in the city ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
Star Wars Rebels: “The Siege of Lothal”
With the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailers blowing up the internet in the past few months, the franchise's stock has shot up considerably. There's been a lot ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jun 15»
E3 2015: Rainbow Six Siege: Terrorist Hunt Returns
By Ryan McCaffreyThe destruction-happy Rainbow Six Siege blew us away at its E3 2014 debut, and then continued to impress (mostly) when we got hands-on ... «IGN, Jun 15»
Sydney siege inquest recap – episode seven
Monica Tan joins Michael Safi to discuss the end of this section of the Sydney siege inquest. Today, witnesses included people described as Man Haron Monis' ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Sydney siege gunman may have been suffering psychosis, inquest …
However her assessment clashed with the diagnosis of a second mental health specialist, who had diagnosed the Sydney siege gunman with depression and ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Sydney siege gunman's life laid out at inquest – as it happened
Katrina Dawson (left) and Tori Johnson (right), the two hostages who were killed, along with gunman Man Haron Monis, during the Sydney Siege at the Lindt ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Rainbow Six Siege release date announced
The Division may be being held back, but Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege is free to breach 'n clear your PC from October 13. That's when the ... «PC Gamer, May 15»
Sydney cafe reopens 3 months after deadly siege
SYDNEY (AP) — A Sydney cafe that was the site of a deadly siege reopened on Friday, with a staffer who was held captive for 16 hours returning to work in a bid ... «USA TODAY, Mar 15»
'Unnecessary and unintentional' delay allowed Algerian terrorists to …
... and unintentional” delay meant government intelligence of terrorists planning to kidnap British workers in Algeria was not passed on before an armed siege at ... «The Independent, Feb 15»
Sydney siege: 18 calls to hotline before Monis attack
Two hostages were killed along with Monis during the December siege. "Plainly, the system has let us down," Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. Mr Abbott, who ... «BBC News, Feb 15»