Crossword clues for fitting
fitting
- Be the right size or shape
- Be agreeable or acceptable to
- (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
- Trying on clothes to see whether they fit
- Adjusting to circumstances
- Of a condition or restriction
- Appropriate procedure before buying a suit?
- Right or proper
- It appears in newspaper popular with German right
- Appropriate, proper
- Tailor's service
- Appropriate
- Make fit
- Make correspond or harmonize
- Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose
- Conform to some shape or size
- Coincide in their characteristics
- A small and often standardized accessory to a larger system
- Be compatible, similar or consistent
- Insert or adjust several objects or people
- Making or becoming suitable
- Fit correctly or as desired
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fitting \Fit"ting\, n. Anything used in fitting up; especially (pl.), necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings.
Fitting \Fit"ting\, a.
Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper. -- Fit"ting*ly, adv. --
Fit"ting*ness, n.
--Jer. Taylor.
Fit \Fit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fitting.]
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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.
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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. 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.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"proper, befitting, right," early 15c., present-participle adjective from fit (v.). Related: Fittingly.
c.1600, verbal noun from fit (v.). Meaning "action of fitting on a garment" is from 1900.
Wiktionary
ready, appropriate, or in keeping alt. 1 (present participle of fit English) 2 (context informal US with infinitive English) ready, preparing. n. 1 A small detachable part of a device or machine. 2 The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit. 3 (context manufacturing English) The process of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products. 4 (context chiefly British English) domestic moveable piece of furniture, which can be taken along when moving out, US furnishing (see also (term fixture English)). v
1 (present participle of fit English) 2 (context informal US with infinitive English) ready, preparing.
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]
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]
adj. in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion; "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this"
being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first" [syn: meet]
n. making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances [syn: adjustment, accommodation]
a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system
(usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) [syn: appointment]
trying on clothes to see whether they fit [syn: try-on, trying on]
See fit
Wikipedia
Fitting can refer to:
- A dress fitting.
- A fitting model, the model trying on the clothes.
- Any machine component, piping or tubing part that can attach or connect two or more larger parts. For examples, see coupling, compression fitting, piping and plumbing fittings and pipe fitting.
- The process of applying regression analysis to data. This method is sometimes called line-fitting or curve fitting depending on the result.
- The process of cutting and shaping parts on a custom, craft-production basis to cause them to fit together into an assembly with the proper engineering fit.
- Preprocessing of data for data mining or other parsing.
- Mathematical concepts named after Hans Fitting such as Fitting subgroup, Fitting length, Fitting lemma, Fitting ideal, and Fitting's theorem.
- Light socket or lamp fitting.
- An element of a tantrum, seizure or any other sudden occurrence of a symptom or unusual behaviour.
- Fitting Group, an advertising agency based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Usage examples of "fitting".
If he refuses to return and abjure his heresy and give fitting satisfaction, he is delivered to the secular Court to be punished.
I for one think it behooves us to find a more fitting way to salute Rome and Romulus than acrimonious and ill-mannered meetings of the Senate.
Making the trip down ten flights would be the ultimate way to flip off her agoraphobia, a fitting cap to her week of desensitization and self-improvement.
I hastened to the aperture, and under the crustations of coral, covered with fungi, syphonules, alcyons, madrepores, through myriads of charming fish--girelles, glyphisidri, pompherides, diacopes, and holocentres--I recognised certain debris that the drags had not been able to tear up--iron stirrups, anchors, cannons, bullets, capstan fittings, the stem of a ship, all objects clearly proving the wreck of some vessel, and now carpeted with living flowers.
By it I request my very reverend archbishop in Christ, the father of the metropolitan church of the city of Manila, and charge the venerable and devout fathers-provincial and other superiors of all the orders in the territory of his archbishopric, to note that they are to inform my governor of the said islands whenever such cases shall occur to the prejudice of my treasury, and that the culprits be punished as is fitting.
Ingersoll, removed the prejudices that many persons formerly had against Socialism on account of the atheistic teachings of its leaders, it seems but fitting to give a short refutation of the deceptive argument and to point out the absurdity of the comparison just mentioned.
Extreme priority will be given to fitting out ships to catapult or otherwise launch fighter aircraft against bombers attacking our shipping.
It had been assembled twenty-five years previously when the first colonists arrived, and its austere fittings were showing their age.
They were the usual wireless fitments, bakelite knobs fitting snugly to the steel shafts that projected from the front panel.
Further, if others were baptized with that baptism, this was only in order that they might be prepared for the baptism of Christ: and thus it would seem fitting that the baptism of John should be conferred on all, old and young, Gentile and Jew, just as the baptism of Christ.
Much less fitting, therefore, was it for the Gentiles to be baptized by John.
It was not fitting that Christ should be baptized by John either before or after all others.
Therefore it was not fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
Therefore it was fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan.
And therefore it was fitting that Christ should be baptized in the Jordan rather than in the sea.