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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fitted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a built-in/fitted cupboardBritish English (= ones that are there permanently and cannot be moved)
▪ The kitchen has built-in cupboards.
a fitted carpet (=cut to fit a room, and fixed to the floor)
▪ Do you prefer rugs or a fitted carpet?
fitted/built-in wardrobes (=wardrobes built against a wall or fitted between two walls)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
carpet
▪ If fitted carpets are to be moved, they will need to be prepared in advance.
▪ I never saw a fitted carpet.
▪ I opened the door and it made a very loud noise as it ruffled the fitted carpet.
▪ Flooring should be non-committal: plain, functional cord fitted carpet, or rubber stud flooring.
▪ A fitted carpet washed across the floor and its floral pattern was far too big to fit into the space it occupied.
▪ Walls in dark, warm colours, with rich fitted carpets or traditional rugs make for a quietly splendid effect.
cupboard
▪ Then he opened one of the doors of the fitted cupboards.
▪ Bedroom 10' 5 × 8' 5 Window to rear, fitted cupboard.
kitchen
▪ A three-piece suite and coffee table occupied the front half, a fitted kitchen and dinette the rear.
▪ Take, for example, a small company producing fitted kitchen units.
▪ Features can include car parking, lift, balcony, fitted kitchen, audio entry phone, fitted wardrobes and double glazing.
▪ Product segmentation of this sort is visible in clothes retailing, and the distribution of fitted kitchens and bedroom furniture.
▪ The back of the row was similarly standard, low-cost fitted kitchens with plain flagged floors.
▪ It comes complete with full gas central heating, double glazing, a fully fitted kitchen and integral garage.
▪ A cooker that will fit neatly into your modern fitted kitchen.
▪ A fitted kitchen and fitted wardrobes add that touch of luxury.
wardrobe
▪ Sloping solution: That awkward sloping ceiling normally presents a problem, but there is a solution in these Sliderobes fitted wardrobes.
▪ Features can include car parking, lift, balcony, fitted kitchen, audio entry phone, fitted wardrobes and double glazing.
▪ How does condensation develop in fitted wardrobes?
▪ There are two choices when it comes to building your own fitted wardrobes.
▪ Bedroom improvements Many potential purchasers expect to find fitted wardrobes in bedrooms these days.
▪ A wash basin neatly boxed in, a big fitted wardrobe with even a rail for her shoes in it.
▪ A fitted kitchen and fitted wardrobes add that touch of luxury.
▪ Voices were murmuring in the fitted wardrobes at the foot of his double bed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A three-piece suite and coffee table occupied the front half, a fitted kitchen and dinette the rear.
▪ Flooring should be non-committal: plain, functional cord fitted carpet, or rubber stud flooring.
▪ I never saw a fitted carpet.
▪ Then Miguel himself came round the corner of the villa, dressed in a white open-necked shirt and dark fitted trousers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fitted

Fit \Fit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fitted; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    --Burke.

    The very situation for which he was peculiarly fitted by nature.
    --Macaulay.

  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.
    --Is. xliv. 1

  3. 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.
    --Shak.

  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.
    --Shak.

    That time best fits the work.
    --Shak.

    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.

Wiktionary
fitted
  1. (context of a kitchen, bathroom, etc. English) Incorporating all of the fittings into connected units. v

  2. 1 (en-simple pastfit) (to tailor, change size) 2 (past participle of fit English) (to tailor, change size)

WordNet
fit
  1. n. a display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene" [syn: tantrum, scene, conniption]

  2. a sudden uncontrollable attack; "a paroxysm of giggling"; "a fit of coughing"; "convulsions of laughter" [syn: paroxysm, convulsion]

  3. the manner in which something fits; "I admired the fit of her coat"

  4. a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason); "a burst of applause"; "a fit of housecleaning" [syn: burst]

  5. [also: fitting, fitted, fittest, fitter]

fitted

See fit

fit
  1. adj. meeting adequate standards for a purpose; "a fit subject for discussion"; "it is fit and proper that you be there"; "water fit to drink"; "fit for duty"; "do as you see fit to" [syn: fit to(a), fit for(a)] [ant: unfit]

  2. (usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed; "in no fit state to continue"; "fit to drop"; "laughing fit to burst"; "she was fit to scream"; "primed for a fight"; "we are set to go at any time" [syn: fit(p), primed(p), set(p)]

  3. physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise" [syn: healthy] [ant: unfit]

  4. [also: fitting, fitted, fittest, fitter]

fit
  1. v. be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, accommodate]

  2. be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This piece won't fit into the puzzle" [syn: go]

  3. satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" [syn: meet, conform to]

  4. make fit; "fit a dress"; "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"

  5. insert or adjust several objects or people; "Can you fit the toy into the box?"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment"

  6. be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disagree]

  7. conform to some shape or size; "How does this shirt fit?"

  8. provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities" [syn: equip, fit out, outfit]

  9. make correspond or harmonize; "Match my sweater" [syn: match]

  10. [also: fitting, fitted, fittest, fitter]

Usage examples of "fitted".

He found his suit ready made and fitted afore he thought he was half measured.

Beautiful Agami woodwork, larken-built, like all the best of the Agami: each panel was made of thousands of pieces of wood, some as large as a thumbnail, some as small as a splinter, each one invisibly glued into place, fitted together like the pieces of a puzzle.

Carnia were up in arms, that numerous bands of robbers had descended from the mountains of Ziccola and Agrapha, and had made their appearance on the other side of the gulf, they resolved to proceed by water to Prevesa, and having presented an order which they had received from Ali Pasha, for the use of his galliot, she was immediately fitted out to convey them.

They had only a little round opening on the top, closed with an aluminium lid, which fitted exactly like the lid of a milk-can.

An atmosphered corridor fitted with airlocks divided the port hold from the lab.

These are fitted with attemperators, and parachutes for the removal of yeast, in much the same way as in the skimming system.

Admirably fitted for the training of youth, she has long conducted a school for girls, which is famous throughout the department of the Aube and adjacent regions.

Brooke decided to cut her losses, even though she loved the luxe silk blouses and the rich bouclé Chanel jackets that felt custom fitted but were not working-girl friendly, pricewise.

It fitted exactly into the central wall panel above the narrow buhl cabinet, and filled exactly its right space in the composition and balance of the room.

It contained the single item of furniture that Laurie had previously mentioned: a long, high bed butted against the wall, enclosed in a fitted counterpane of dark green velvet.

Forth Bridge rest, were each erected within an open plate-iron caisson fitted at the bottom to the sloping rock, where ordinary cofferdams could not have been adopted.

The lid of the kettle was of heavy cast iron, and fitted tightly, but McCoy now plastered it about with clay before he filled his sawn calabash with water and stood a pewter half-pint on a rock, where it would catch the drip from the coil.

Their dresses fitted their figures, and were trimmed with fur and stiffened with whalebones, so they went into the next room, and came back in white bodices and short dimity petticoats, laughing at the slightness of their attire.

For it was distinctly the weird mixture of qualities and forces in him, of the lofty with the common, the ideal with the uncouth, of that which he had become with that which he had not ceased to be, that made him so fascinating a character among his fellow-men, gave him his singular power over their minds and hearts, and fitted him to be the greatest leader in the greatest crisis of our national life.

It was fitted with a revolving panel, like the one from which Chun Laro had appeared.