# fitting
## English
### Alternative forms

* (ready): fittin', fittin

### Etymology

By surface analysis, fit +‎ -ing.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɪtɪŋ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ

### Verb

fitting
* present participle and gerund of fit
* (informal, US, with infinitive) Getting ready; preparing.
    I'm fitting to go home and sleep.
** 1846, Lyndall Gordon, quoting Emily Dickinson, letter, quoted in Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, published 2010:'I am fitting to go to South Hadley Seminary [as Mount Holyoke was known], and expect if my health is good to enter that institution a year from next fall', she confided to Abiah.

#### Synonyms

* (ready): fixing to (see also going to)

### Adjective

fitting (comparative more fitting, superlative most fitting)
* Appropriate; suitable.
** 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto:Though all your actions are noble, […] is it fitting that I should accompany you alone into these perplexed retreats? Should we be found together, what would a censorious world think of my conduct?
** 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 712:The last regular steam-hauled passenger train between Glasgow and Helensburgh Central was given a fitting send-off from Queen Street Low Level at 11.2 p.m. on Friday, November 4.
** 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.
** 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2020:And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.”
** 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:The L&YR built a small number of these trains, known as 'Rail Motors', for rural branch lines. It was only fitting that the Horwich branch should have its own.

#### Derived terms

* fittingly
* fittingness
* unfitting

#### Translations
### Noun

fitting (countable and uncountable, plural fittings)
* A small part, especially a standardized or detachable part of a device or machine.
* (engineering) A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling
* The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
* (manufacturing) The process of fitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
* (chiefly British, often plural) A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; US furnishing; compare fixture.
    the fittings of a church or study
* (uncountable) The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.
    Since her medication was changed, her fitting has got worse.

#### Derived terms

* banjo fitting
* fitting-out
* fitting room (noun)
* formfitting
* gasfitting
* gunfitting
* photofitting
* pipefitting
* shipfitting
* shopfitting
* steamfitting

#### Translations

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