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Fit   /fɪt/   Listen
Fit

verb
1.
Be agreeable or acceptable to.  Synonyms: accommodate, suit.
2.
Be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired.  Synonym: go.
3.
Satisfy a condition or restriction.  Synonyms: conform to, meet.
4.
Make fit.  "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"
5.
Insert or adjust several objects or people.  "This man can't fit himself into our work environment"
6.
Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.  Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally.  "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" , "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"
7.
Conform to some shape or size.
8.
Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose.  Synonyms: equip, fit out, outfit.
9.
Make correspond or harmonize.  Synonym: match.
adjective
(compar. fitter; superl. fittest)
1.
Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.  "It is fit and proper that you be there" , "Water fit to drink" , "Fit for duty" , "Do as you see fit to"
2.
(usually followed by 'to' or 'for') on the point of or strongly disposed.  Synonyms: primed, set.  "Fit to drop" , "Laughing fit to burst" , "She was fit to scream" , "Primed for a fight" , "We are set to go at any time"
3.
Physically and mentally sound or healthy.  "Keeps fit with diet and exercise"
noun
1.
A display of bad temper.  Synonyms: conniption, scene, tantrum.  "She threw a tantrum" , "He made a scene"
2.
A sudden uncontrollable attack.  Synonyms: convulsion, paroxysm.  "A fit of coughing" , "Convulsions of laughter"
3.
The manner in which something fits.
4.
A sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason).  Synonym: burst.  "A fit of housecleaning"



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"Fit" Quotes from Famous Books



... shields us from premature ideas, said the gracious and wise Emerson; and so does nature. She holds back her secrets until man is fit to be entrusted with them, lest by rashness he destroy himself. Those who seek find, not because the truth is far off, but because the discipline of the quest makes them ready for the truth, and worthy to receive ...
— The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry • Joseph Fort Newton
... atom of dry toast—nothing could calm the fever of my soul. I stirred the fire and read Zimmermann alternately. Even reason—the last remedy one has recourse to in such cases—came at length to my relief: I argued myself into a philosophic fit. But, unluckily, just as the Lethean tide within me was at its height, my landlady broke in upon my lethargy, and chased away by a single word all the little sprites and pleasures that were acting as my physicians, and prescribing balm for my ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various
... man, to wit, the Count, was displeased; but nevertheless, such was the love he bore them, that, rather than see them weep, he gave order that, if the worthy man cared to stay there in his service, he should be received. The Count answered that he would gladly do so, but that he was fit for nothing except to look after horses, to which he had been used all his life. So a horse was assigned him, and when he had groomed him, he occupied himself in ...
— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio
... fortune at the beginning of last century. A real forest of woodwork formed the basis of the monument; the riches of the cardinal had created a prodigality of solidity and sumptuousness, and several days were required to fit together the Holy Catafalque, and not a ...
— The Shadow of the Cathedral • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Mr. Bangs and teach him the polka, for he does not know it fit to be seen," added the hostess, with a reproachful look that sobered Tommy ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott


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