fit
IPA: fˈɪt
noun
- The degree to which something fits.
- Conformity of elements one to another.
- The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
- (advertising) Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
- (statistics) Goodness of fit.
- (bridge) The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
- (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.
- A seizure or convulsion.
- (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
- A sudden outburst of emotion.
- A sudden burst (of an activity).
- (slang) An outfit, a set of clothing.
- (countable) Initialism of feed-in tariff.
- (uncountable, aviation, travel industry) Initialism of fully inclusive tour.
- (uncountable, aviation, travel industry) Initialism of fully independent travel.
- Initialism of feed-in tariff.
verb
- (transitive) To be suitable for.
- (intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
- (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.
- (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape
- (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape.
- (transitive) To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
- (transitive) To be in agreement with.
- (transitive) To adjust.
- (transitive) To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
- (transitive) To equip or supply.
- (transitive) To make ready.
- (intransitive, archaic) To be seemly.
- To be proper or becoming.
- (intransitive) To be in harmony.
- (intransitive, medicine) To suffer a fit.
adjective
- Suitable, proper.
- Adapted to a purpose or environment.
- In good shape; physically well.
- (Britain, informal, chiefly slang) Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.
- Prepared; ready.
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Examples of "fit" in Sentences
- The clothes fit well.
- I am a fitful innovator.
- A dry, fitful coughing develops.
- The title is not fitting the topic.
- But the vitriol doesn't fit the mood.
- It fits in the context of the article.
- The A building is the fitness building.
- Alternatively, an ammeter may be fitted.
- But they just fitted the biology to their preconceptions.
- Puts new meaning into the term fit for office -- Suzanne?
- I'm too shabby, puts new meaning into the term fit for office.
- The nickname fit better than the kids, or Luke himself, could know.
- Gravid females are able to change their color to fit their background.
- And also if it's bible related wouldn't the title fit more of a Revelations ordeal?
- Tr'Annhwi was standing in the doorway wearing an expression fit to curdle milk, and the tall shape of Commander t'Radaik was right beside him.
- Cathari ought not to be put to death after an ecclesiastical trial, lest the Church be compromised: "_Illud ab eo fit, cujus auctoritate fit_," he said, to justify his recommendation. [
- Aditi Kinkhabwala of The Wall Street Journal took a closer look at recent seasons when the Giants were said to have "collapsed" and determined that the label fit only for 2010 and 2006.
- Now everything I had left to my name fit neatly into two weathered brown suitcases, which I had to borrow, no less, from a friend across the hall, because the thieves had efficiently used my own suitcases to haul away my things.
- Likewise has been accepted its law of development: _That_, _in the struggle for existence_, _the strong and fit and the progeny of the strong and fit have a better opportunity for survival than the weak and less fit and the progeny of the weak and less fit_.
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