Word Finder - fitting

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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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To suffer a fit.

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A small part, especially a standardized or detachable part of a device or machine.

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A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling

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The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.

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The process of fitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.

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(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.

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the fittings of a church or study

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The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.

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Since her medication was changed, her fitting has got worse.

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Ready, appropriate, suitable, or in keeping

Her room was tiny, barely fitting a twin-sized bed and a small, wooden dresser.

After the fitting, Carmen retrieved Destiny.

A broken nose was fitting punishment.

It is fitting that Miss Keller's "Story of My Life" should appear at this time.

While she'd most likely be out on the job, he'd case the place, now that his detective hat was fitting so well.

There weren't many candidates fitting that description.

Lana's skin was soft, her body fitting comfortably against his.

It was a fitting close to such a life as his.

I thought it fitting, given the amount of misery she caused men like us.

Meeting his parents, them accepting me, fitting in with the new place, you know.

As God is the Saviour, and the chief end of the revelation is redemption, it is fitting that the miracles should be acts of divine deliverance from physical evil.

Lisa stared at him, fragments of the night before slowly fitting together like a jigsaw puzzle.

After all, it is only a question of probabilities, and the difficulties of fitting a wife and child into the story seem to be very great, whether we conceive them left behind by Demetrius in Italy, or sent out of the country before him.

Industries include ship and boat building and fitting, and motor engineering.

His only important precursors in serious poetry were Ennius and Lucilius, and, though he derived from the first of these an impulse to shape the Latin tongue into a fitting vehicle for the expression of elevated emotion and imaginative conception, he could find in neither a guide to follow in the task he set before himself.

The world has nothing to show, in the way of stone-cutting and fitting, to equal the skill and accuracy displayed in the Inca structures of Cuzco.

In all tsetse-flies the proboscis in the living insect is entirely concealed by the palpi, which are grooved in their inner sides and form a closely fitting sheath for the piercing organ; the base of the proboscis is expanded beneath into a large onion-shaped bulb, which is filled with muscles.

Johanan solaced his disciples on the fall of the Temple by the double thought that charity could replace sacrifice, and that a life devoted to the religious law could form a fitting continuation of the old theocratic state.

Part was in the river fitting out under Blake, who had not fully recovered from his wound.

Monk and Rupert were fitting out a fleet of nearly the same strength in the Thames.

Parliament would grant the king no supplies, and he could find the means of fitting out a fleet only by defrauding his creditors.

An officer whose nature, as the event showed, was interpenetrated with the spirit of legality was a fitting servant of a revolution whose aim it was to substitute legality for personal caprice as the dominant principle of affairs.

In his hands the history of Florence became a text on which at fitting seasons to deliver lessons in the science he initiated.

A small hole is left in the centre of each segment, which is kept open during the fitting to prevent undue pressure upon any one, but is stopped as soon as the circle is completed.

The consecration of material objects and in general their use in religion and cult was consistently avoided by the Manicheans; not because they failed to share the universal belief of earlier ages that spirits can be inducted by means of fitting prayers and incantations into inanimate things, but because the external material world was held to be the creation of an evil demiurge and so incapable of harbouring a pure spirit.

This suspension is then run through a conical mill in order td remove all grit, the cones of the mill fitting so tightly that water cannot pass through unless the mill is running; the speed of the mill when working is about 3000 revolutions per minute.

Modern writers rather dwell on the perfect organization demanded by his scheme, the training of a nation to combined labour, the level attained here by art and in the fitting of masonry, and finally the fact that the Great Pyramid was the oldest of the seven wonders of the ancient world and now alone of them survives.

Their axes were made of tough stones, sawn from the block and ground to the fitting shape.

The main girders rest on the revolving platform, and the ends of the bridge are circular arcs fitting the fixed roadway.

The older gardens have followed too closely the idea of small cages, designed to guard an animal securely rather than to display it in a fitting environment, but if exercise, light and air are provided, animals do better in a relatively small than in a relatively large enclosure.

Every act of every person has not only a moral value producing merit or demerit, but also an inherent power which works out its fitting reward or punishment.

But its aristocratic organization, based as this was on property qualifications which gave the greatest voting power to the richest men, prevented it from being a fitting channel for the expression of plebeian claims. Hence the plebs adopted a new political organization of their own.

On the south side of the town there are three harbours - the large western or merchant harbour, the western flank of which is formed by a great mole joining the fortifications which traverse the breadth of the island on this side; the middle harbour, used chiefly for fitting out and repairing vessels; and the eastern or war harbour for vessels of the Russian navy.

He succeeds in fitting the Homeric topography to this latter island, and suggests that the name may have been transferred in consequence of a migration of the inhabitants.

In machinery, abrasion between moving surfaces has to be prevented as much as possible by the use of suitable materials, good fitting and lubrication.

Having for some time learnt to be aggressive, she girded herself for the difficult work of teaching the nations a higher faith than a savage form of nature-worship, and of fitting them to become members of an enlightened Christendom.

The " refinery process " of fitting pig iron for the puddling process by removing the silicon without the carbon, is sometimes used because of this difficulty in making a pig iron initially low in both sulphur and silicon.

Later friendly relations between the United States and Great Britain, where, among the upper classes, there was a strong sentiment in favour of the Confederacy, were seriously threatened by the fitting out of Confederate privateers in British ports, and the Administration owed much to the skilful diplomacy of the American minister in London, Charles Francis Adams. A still broader foreign question grew out of Mexican affairs, when events culminating in the setting up of Maximilian of Austria as emperor under protection of French troops demanded the constant watchfulness of the United States.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

About a year later he was consecrated to the see of York, not, however, in England, where perhaps he could not find the fitting number of orthodox prelates, but at Compiegne, Agilbert being now bishop of Paris.

This was fulfilled in the letter, but in spirit set aside, for one body of men was trained after another until the larger part of the male population were in a position, when a fitting opportunity should occur, to take up arms for their country.

At a time when much speaking has depressed, has almost exterminated eloquence, he maintained that robust, powerful and vigorous style in which he gave fitting expression to the burning and noble thoughts he desired to utter."

He was full of enthusiasm for liberty; the struggle of the Greeks to throw off the Turkish yoke enlisted his warmest sympathy, and at one time he seriously thought of entering the West Point Academy and fitting himself for a soldier's career.

They are often shed throughout life, the successors lying on the inner side, and with their caps partly fitting into the wide open roots of the older teeth.

The last words of it may be quoted; they form a fitting epitaph for the noblest of English kings.

There was also the sort of unofficial censorship, undefined by law but real, which communities exercised against those who had been pro-German or who were now less ready than their neighbours thought fitting to subscribe for loans and the Red Cross, and to observe food regulations.

The wall consists of a basis of cellulose, and in some cases readily breaks up into a definite number of plates, fitting into one another like the plates of the carapace of a tortoise; it is, moreover, often finely sculptured or coarsely ridged and flanged.

But in other respects his last years were cheered by marks of general regard and admiration, in which non-Catholics joined; and after his death (16th February 1865) there was an extraordinary demonstration of popular respect as his body was taken from St Mary's, Moorfields, to the cemetery at Kensal Green, where it was intended that it should rest only until a more fitting place could be found in a Roman Catholic cathedral church of Westminster.

In very early times attempts were made to furnish it with a fitting close; but neither of the supplements which we find in manuscripts can be regarded as coming from the original writer.

A mixture of pounded brick, clay and ashes was then ground finely in water to the consistence of cream, and successive coats of this mixture were then applied with a brush, till a second skin was formed all over the wax, fitting closely into every line and depression of the modelling.