Word Finder - fits

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The degree to which something fits.

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Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit.

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Conformity of elements one to another.

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It's hard to get a good fit using second-hand parts.

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The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.

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Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.

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The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.

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Goodness of fit.

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The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.

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During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.

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To be suitable for.

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It fits the purpose.

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To conform to in size and shape.

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If I lose a few kilos, the gorgeous wedding dress might fit me.

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To be of the right size and shape

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I wanted to borrow my little sister's jeans, but they didn't fit.

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(with to) To make conform in size and shape.

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I want to fit the drapes to the windows.

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To be in agreement with.

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These definitions fit most of the usage.

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To adjust.

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The regression program fit a line to the data.

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To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.

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To equip or supply.

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The chandler will fit us with provisions for a month.

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To make ready.

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I'm fitting the ship for a summer sail home.

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To be seemly.

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To be proper or becoming.

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To be in harmony.

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The paint, the fabrics, the rugs all fit.

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A section of a poem or ballad.

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A seizure or convulsion.

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My grandfather died after having a fit.

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A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.

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A sudden outburst of emotion.

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He had a laughing fit which lasted more than ten minutes.

synonyms

• blowout
• hissy
• moment
• spell
• tantrum

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A sudden burst (of an activity).

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• flurry
• frenzy
• paroxysm

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To suffer a fit.

It looks as if it fits you.

Natasha was still as much in love with her betrothed, found the same comfort in that love, and was still as ready to throw herself into all the pleasures of life as before; but at the end of the fourth month of their separation she began to have fits of depression which she could not master.

And in the same way the universal historians sometimes, when it pleases them and fits in with their theory, say that power is the result of events, and sometimes, when they want to prove something else, say that power produces events.

After all, she fits the bill.

He had fits of superstition which in healthier moments he despised.

If the coin is light the rod S fits into the uppermost step and the shoot stops over the right-hand slot.

If the coin is heavy, S fits into the lowest step and the shoot stops over the left-hand slot.

The supposition least favourable to Rousseau is that it was due to one of his numerous fits of half-insane petulance and indignation at the obligations which he was nevertheless always ready to incur.

Mark, in one of his fits of jealousy, banishes Tristan and Iseult from the court; the two fly to the woods, where they lead an idyllic life, blissfully happy in each other's company.

The speculum lies face upwards in a shallow bath of water (to preserve a uniform temperature), and the polisher fits loosely in a ring, so that the rotation of the speculum makes it revolve also, but more slowly.

It was precipitated by one of those fits of passion to which the king was prone; but the influence of Hubert had been for some time waning before that of Peter des Roches and his nephew Peter des Rievaux.

After securing an animal of the right height, weight and disposition, with a saddle of a length of tree and a breadth of seat that fits the rider and that is lined to fit the back of the horse, with a bridle bitted to his mouth, the first step is to mount.

The silver kettle, which fits on a ring near the top of the outer covering, has a cup-like cover in which rice is placed with a little water; the ginseng is put in the inner vessel with water, a cover is placed over the whole, and the apparatus is put on the fire.

In his boyhood he suffered from epileptic fits, and could therefore not receive a regular education.

Such a passage fits very ill an island lying, as Ithaca does, just to the east of Cephalonia.

There is no doubt that Leucas fits the Homeric descriptions much better than Ithaca; but, on the other hand, many scholars maintain that it is a mistake to treat the imaginary descriptions of a poet as if they were portions of a guide-book, or to look, in the author of the Odyssey, for a close familiarity with the geography of the Ionian islands.

Creak, and has been found to give satisfactory results on board ship. The circle is provided with two needles in addition to those used for determining the dip, one (a) an ordinary dip needle, and the other (b) a needle which has been loaded at one end by means of a small peg which fits into one of two symmetrically placed holes in the needle.

In religion he found but little comfort during his long and frequent fits of dejection; for his religion partook of his own character.

Indeed, the great man was sometimes provoked into fits of passion, in which he said things which the small man, during a few hours, seriously resented.

It is said that Mahomet occasionally uttered such a passage immediately after one of those epileptic fits which not only his followers, but (for a time at least) he himself also, regarded as tokens of intercourse with the higher powers.

It had its hot fits and its cold fits, and it gave orders now to advance and now to retreat.

It fits the facts because it is derived from them.

This fits closely as to the upper part of the body, but flows loosely below the waist.

Morphine is recognized as one of the most useful drugs in the treatment of eclampsia, early injection often arresting the fits.

Bracton fits his definition of villenage into the Romanesque scheme of Azo's Summa of the Institutes, and the judges of the royal courts made sweeping inferences from this general position.

Hence the illumination of the screen by the light passing through the hole is precisely what would be cut off by a disk which fits the hole, and the complement of fig.

The explanation of the apparent bounding of Christianity by Europe and its offspring is not, however, to be found in any psychological peculiarity separating the European races from those of other continents, nor in any special characteristic of Christianity which fits it for European soil.

The temporary fits of insanity into which he fell warned him to name a colleague.

He had been from his early youth subject to fits of melancholia, and during several short periods was actually insane.

Klostermann, however, takes the ch to be part of the Aramaic root demach, " to sleep "; the word would then mean " field of sleep " or cemetery (Probleme im Aposteltexte, 1-8, 1883), an explanation which fits in well with the account in Matthew xxvii.

The process by which the modern fits together all the obtainable remains of an antiquity, and reconstructs even that past which left no written record, lies outside the field of this article.

According to this school, man is a machine, no doubt the most complex and wonderfully adapted of all known machines, but still neither more nor less than an instrument whose energy is provided by force from without, and which, when set in action, performs the various operations for which its structure fits it, namely, to live, move, feel, and think.

Before he was ten his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair; and his sleep was disturbed by dreams of fiends trying to fly away with him.

Ten brass blocks are arranged parallel to or around another brass block, and by means of a plug which fits into holes bored partly out of the common block and partly out of the surrounding blocks, any one of the latter can be connected with the common one.

These promises he observed more faithfully than Norman kings were wont to do; if the pledge was not redeemed in every detail, he yet kept England free from anarchy, abandoned the arbitrary and unjust taxation of his brother, and set up a government that worked by rule and order, not by the fits and starts of tyrannical caprice.

It roused one of the fits of wild rage to which he was not unfrequently liable; he burst out into ejaculations of wrath, and cursed the cowardly idle servants who suffered their master to be made the laughing-stock of a low-born priest.

Soon after the publication of Vivian Grey, Disraeli, who is said by Froude to have been "overtaken by a singular disorder," marked by fits of giddiness ("once he fell into a trance, and did not recover for a week"), went with the Austens on a long summer tour in France, Switzerland and Italy.

Cork possesses a combination of properties which peculiarly fits it for many and diverse uses, for some of which it alone is found applicable.

It is enough to determine with something like probability the century or half-century which best fits its historical data; and these appear to point to the reign of Manasseh.

But the twofold effect of civil warthe ruin of the farmers and the scarcity and high price of rural laborwas only reduced arbitrarily and, by fits and starts.

After 1802, finding himself attacked with a weakness in the limbs attended with frequent fits of falling, he mitigated the Spartan severity of his life, and consented to receive medical advice.

When a large body of fuel is required, the cylinder can be lengthened by an iron hoop which fits over the top ring.

Could've been a little more discreet, but it fits Rhyn's personality.

In the holidays you will have the opportunity to see where your project fits into the rest of the country.

We can now find anagrams where a word fits more than once into the original phrase.

She put them all on a durable plastic template that fits into a standard 3-ring binder for easy storage.

Richie fits 100 percent and you can feel the strong bondage and the vibes between all group members.

Always use a proper candleholder and make sure the candle fits firmly inside it.

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Monitor is supplied with the Omron Medium Cuff which fits 22 - 32cm arm circumference.