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verb

Fit v. t. (past & past part. fitted; pres. part. fitting)

1.

To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation. "The time is fitted for the duty." "The very situation for which he was peculiarly fitted by nature."

2.

To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc. "The carpenter... marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes."

3.

To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required. "No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves."

4.

To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on. "That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions." "That time best fits the work."

To fit out, to supply with necessaries or means; to furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer.

To fit up, to furnish with things suitable; to make proper for the reception or use of any person; to prepare; as, to fit up a room for a guest.

Fit v. i.

1.

To be proper or becoming. "Nor fits it to prolong the feast."

2.

To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.

noun

Fitting n. Anything used in fitting up; especially

Fitting n. Necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings.

adjective

Fitting adj. Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper.

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Etymology of 'Fitting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the shield so great and strong, he made a breastplate also that shone brighter than fire. He made a helmet, close fitting to the brow, and richly worked, with a golden plume overhanging it; and he made greaves also of ...

— The Iliad • Homer

... globe, yet chiefly the grain and cotton, provisions, tobacco, and lumber of America. Railways run along the inner border of the docks on a street between them and the town, and along their tracks horses draw the freight-cars, while double-decked passenger-cars also run upon them with broad wheels fitting the rails, yet capable of being run off whenever the driver wishes to get ahead of the slowly-moving freight-cars. Ordinary wagons move upon Strand street alongside, with horses of the largest size drawing them, the huge growth of the Liverpool horses being commensurate with the immense ...

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... reflective thought was broken abruptly by the seating of two other supper guests at his table; a big-framed man in the grizzled fifties, and a young woman who looked as if she might have stepped the moment before out of the fitting-rooms of the ...

— The Price • Francis Lynde

... door furniture." Granted, and some of them very good, but none of them so good as this—for the money. Plenty of them well adapted for extraordinary use, but none of them cheap enough and strong enough to be placed in competition with this in fitting up the dwelling of the ordinary Englishman. The spindle and furniture of a lock is the portion which is liable to and receives ...

— Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 • Various

... a rule it was not fitting that he should ask a married man without his wife; but there are occasions on which an excuse can be given, and upon the whole the men liked it. He was a stout, tall, portly old gentleman, sixty years of age, but looking somewhat older, whom it was a difficulty ...

— Mr. Scarborough's Family • Anthony Trollope

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