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verb

Fit v. t. (past & past part. fitted; pres. part. fitting)

1.

To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation. "The time is fitted for the duty." "The very situation for which he was peculiarly fitted by nature."

2.

To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc. "The carpenter... marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes."

3.

To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required. "No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves."

4.

To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on. "That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions." "That time best fits the work."

To fit out, to supply with necessaries or means; to furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer.

To fit up, to furnish with things suitable; to make proper for the reception or use of any person; to prepare; as, to fit up a room for a guest.

Fit v. i.

1.

To be proper or becoming. "Nor fits it to prolong the feast."

2.

To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.

noun

Fitting n. Anything used in fitting up; especially

Fitting n. Necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings.

adjective

Fitting adj. Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper.

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Etymology of 'Fitting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... my head out of the window and there witnessed a most touching sight. A youngish man in a well-fitting captain's uniform, accompanied by his wife and two pretty babies, was preparing to take his leave. He was evidently well known and esteemed in his little village, for the curate, the mayor, the municipal council and numerous ...

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... and, indeed, it may claim an origin as early as the first garments worn by mankind. In the earliest remains of antiquity a fringe often decorates the edges of garments, curtains, and floor-covering, and seems to be a natural and fitting finish to what would otherwise be a hard, straight line. In the various Assyrian and Egyptian monuments this is noted again ...

— Chats on Old Lace and Needlework • Emily Leigh Lowes

... such a central controlling power we should lose all sense of individuality; and hence the ultimate aim of the evolutionary process is to evolve individual wills actuated by such beneficence and enlightenment as shall make them fitting vehicles for the outflowing of the Supreme Spirit, which has hitherto created cosmically, and can now carry on the creative process to its highest stages only through conscious union with the individual; for this is the ...

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