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fitter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fit \Fit\, a. [Compar. Fitter; superl. Fittest.] [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat, elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten to suit, square, Goth. f?tjan to adorn.
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Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in.
--Shak.Fit audience find, though few.
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Prepared; ready. [Obs.]
So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel.
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Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked?
--Job xxxiv. 18.Syn: Suitable; proper; appropriate; meet; becoming; expedient; congruous; correspondent; apposite; apt; adapted; prepared; qualified; competent; adequate.
Fitter \Fit"ter\, n.
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One who fits or makes to fit; esp.:
One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress.
One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.
A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper. [Eng.]
--Simmonds.
Fitter \Fit"ter\, n. A little piece; a flitter; a flinder. [Obs.]
Where's the Frenchman? Alas, he's all fitters.
--Beau.
& Fl.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, agent noun from fit (v.).
Wiktionary
a. comparative form of fit n. 1 a person who fits or assembles something 2 (context informal English) an epileptic 3 (context UK dated English) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
WordNet
n. a display of bad temper; "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene" [syn: tantrum, scene, conniption]
a sudden uncontrollable attack; "a paroxysm of giggling"; "a fit of coughing"; "convulsions of laughter" [syn: paroxysm, convulsion]
the manner in which something fits; "I admired the fit of her coat"
a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason); "a burst of applause"; "a fit of housecleaning" [syn: burst]
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]
(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)]
physically and mentally sound or healthy; "felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"; "keeps fit with diet and exercise" [syn: healthy] [ant: unfit]
adj. improved in health or physical condition [syn: healthier]
n. someone who fits a garment to a particular person
See fit
v. be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, accommodate]
be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired; "This piece won't fit into the puzzle" [syn: go]
satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" [syn: meet, conform to]
make fit; "fit a dress"; "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"
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"
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]
conform to some shape or size; "How does this shirt fit?"
provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities" [syn: equip, fit out, outfit]
make correspond or harmonize; "Match my sweater" [syn: match]
Wikipedia
Fitter may refer to:
- Sukhoi Su-7B, a Soviet attack aircraft
- Sukhoi Su-17, a Soviet attack aircraft developed from the Su-7
- Fitter (occupation), a person who uses machine tools to make or modify parts
- Fitter (arcade game) a Taito release of the game Round-Up
- redirect Machinist
Category:Engineering occupations
Usage examples of "fitter".
There were no fitter men than the Dales shepherds, living in the open in all weathers, throwing a sack over their shoulders in snow and rain.
After a few minutes a fitter came over to where I sat trembling in my seat.
His father was a Registered Pipe Fitter and had found his occupation on Earth.
Registered Pipe Fitter and your mother is named Amy and is a Registered Home Technician.
Were not the hand of the leech fitter than that of the soldier to cure wounds, though less able to inflict them?
The fitter remarked to her it was an unusual colour but exactly the colour for her.
But it was a laggard and ice-thin prosperity, and Sarah was worried about her daughter: her son-in-law was a licensed pipe fitter, laid off indefinitely by a Tampa-area natural gas distributor.
That was when Fuchs had worked as a diesel fitter for a boat company on the Elbe.
To be nearer the aeroplanes he got a job as an aero-engine fitter at the flying club that shared the field with the RAF reservists.
Engine-mechanics, riggers, electricians, instrument fitters and radio mechanics swarmed all over the great four-motor aircraft.
Together with, two fitters and Battersby he was full-length in a pool of oil waiting for the bang.
How much fitter would it be, granting that death is the end all, to revise our interpretation, look at the subject from the stand point of universal order, not from this opinionative narrowness, and see if it be not susceptible of a benignant meaning, worthy of grateful acceptance by the humble mind of piety and the dispassionate spirit of science!
James made the Jesuit Petre a privy councillor, giving him his own apartment at Whitehall, and represented that he would be fitter for such a position if he was made a bishop or a cardinal, Innocent refused.
I have seen last night, whilk are things fitter for them to judge of than a borrel man like me.
By calling he was a fitter, and he had come to submit a difficulty which had just arisen in the piecing together of a reaping machine.