fit
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”), of uncertain further origin. The original sense appears to have been "to marshal or deploy troops", which shifted to "to suit (troops to a certain location" > "suitable", and may be further related to Icelandic fitja (“to web, knit, cast on”).
Inflected forms:
form: fitter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fittest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fit
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fit
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suitable; proper
pos: adj
examples: You have nothing to say about it. I'll do exactly as I see fit.
Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked?
He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.
The rest we'll leave to be examined later, if we think fit;
Sergeant Schlock has no horse, no armor, and no sword, but even the mightiest Mongol horse-warrior would see in him a fit heir.
gloss: Adapted to a purpose or environment.
pos: adj
examples: survival of the fittest
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in.
Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”
gloss: In good shape; physically well.
pos: adj
examples: You don't have to be a good climber for Kilimanjaro, but you do have to be fit.
gloss: Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
slang
examples: I think the girl working in the office is fit.
Got my hands down her jeans and I nearly lost half my arm / But after ten pints, she looked quite fit
I think you are really fit / You're fit but my gosh don't you know it.
I said I'd rather be with your friends, mate, cos they are much fitter.
gloss: Prepared; ready.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel.
gloss: To be suitable for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It fits the purpose.
The speaker should be certain that his subject fits the occasion.
gloss: To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Ten clowns fit in the car, but not a hundred.
The elevator can fit up to 10 people.
gloss: To conform to in size and shape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The small shirt doesn't fit me, so I'll buy the medium size.
If I lose a few kilos, the gorgeous wedding dress might fit me.
gloss: To be of the right size and shape
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She's changed the lock on our front door / My door key don't fit no more
I know the pieces fit / 'Cause I watched them fall away
Even though in a way you let him freeze to death in the water, because the way I see it... / I agree. Y'know, I think he actually could have fitted on that bit of door. / There was plenty of room on the raft. / I know. I know, I know.
I wanted to borrow my little sister's jeans, but they didn't fit.
That plug fit into the other socket, but it won't go in this one.
gloss: To make conform in size and shape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I want to fit the drapes to the windows.
gloss: To make conform in size and shape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I had a suit fitted by the tailor.
gloss: To be in agreement with.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: These definitions fit most of the usage.
Type D half-lines ending in words of this type are analysed by Hutcheson as ending in two completely unstressed syllables. That analysis must be descriptively correct for, say, the 10th cent.; whether it would have fitted the facts in the 8th cent. is much less clear.
gloss: To adjust.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The regression program fit a line to the data.
gloss: To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Williams had a problem fitting his left rear tyre and that left Alonso only 3.1secs adrift when he rejoined from his final stop three laps later.
gloss: To equip or supply.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The chandler will fit us with provisions for a month.
gloss: To make ready.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I’m fitting the ship for a summer sail home.
I’m fitting to go home and sleep.
'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.
Thirty years ago, if a girl wished for training, there was none to be had. I can truly say there was no training to be had to fit a woman thoroughly for any life whatever.
gloss: To be seemly.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: To be proper or becoming.
pos: verb
examples: Nor fits it to prolong the heav'nly feast.
gloss: To be in harmony.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The paint, the fabrics, the rugs all fit.
gloss: The degree to which something fits.
pos: noun
examples: This shirt is a bad fit.
Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit.
gloss: Conformity of elements one to another.
pos: noun
examples: It's hard to get a good fit using second-hand parts.
gloss: The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
pos: noun
gloss: Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
pos: noun
examples: The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.
gloss: Goodness of fit.
pos: noun
gloss: The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
pos: noun
examples: During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.
Derived words: aquafit
befit
fighting fit
fit as a butcher's dog
fit as a fiddle
fit as a flea
fit as a lop
fit as a Mallee bull
fit check
fit for a king
fit for purpose
fitly
fitness
fit note
fitspiration
fitspo
fittie
fit to be tied
fit to burst
fit to kill
fit to wake the dead
hyperfit
keep fit
semifit
slim-fit
superfit
unfit
waterfit
nonfit
autofit
backfit
close-fitting
could fit on the back of a postage stamp
crossfit
first-fit
fit in
fit into
fit like a glove
fitment
fit-out
fitout
fit out
fittable
fit the bill
fitting
fit to a T
fit together
fit up
form-fitting
if I fits, I sits
if it fits, I sits
if the shoe fits
ill-fitting
loose-fitting
misfit
overfit
prefit
refit
retrofit
someone's face doesn't fit
tight-fitting
underfit
fit and finish
fit factor
fit rod
gunfit
line of best fit
photofit
videofit
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: لَاقَ
roman: lāqa
lang: Basque
word: egokitu
lang: Bulgarian
word: нага́ждам
roman: nagáždam
lang: Esperanto
word: adapti
lang: Esperanto
word: alfari
lang: Finnish
word: sovittaa
lang: Finnish
word: rukata
lang: Finnish
word: räätälöidä
lang: French
word: ajuster
lang: French
word: adapter
lang: French
word: fitter
lang: Greek
word: ταιριάζω
roman: tairiázo
lang: Greek
word: προσαρμόζω
roman: prosarmózo
lang: Hungarian
word: illeszt
lang: Hungarian
word: hozzáilleszt
lang: Hungarian
word: beleilleszt
lang: Irish
word: oiriúnaigh
lang: Italian
word: adattare
lang: Pennsylvania German
word: aabasse
lang: Portuguese
word: encaixar
lang: Portuguese
word: adaptar