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Fitting

noun

1.

Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances. Synonyms: accommodation, adjustment.

2.

A small and often standardized accessory to a larger system.

3.

(usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel). Synonym: appointment.

4.

Putting clothes on to see whether they fit. Synonyms: try-on, trying on.

adjective

1.

In harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion.

2.

Being precisely fitting and right. Synonym: meet.

Fit

verb

1.

Be agreeable or acceptable to. Synonyms: accommodate, suit.

2.

Be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired. Synonym: go.

3.

Satisfy a condition or restriction. Synonyms: conform to, meet.

4.

Make fit. "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"

5.

Insert or adjust several objects or people. "This man can't fit himself into our work environment"

6.

Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics. Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally. "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" , "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"

7.

Conform to some shape or size.

8.

Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose. Synonyms: equip, fit out, outfit.

9.

Make correspond or harmonize. Synonym: match.

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"Fitting" Quotes from Famous Books

... SHALL put in at St. Helena, so make up your minds not to see me till I don't know when. She has been on board fitting up the cabin to-day. I have SUCH a rug for J-! a mosaic of skins as fine as marqueterie, done by Damara women, and really beautiful; and a sheep-skin blanket for you, the essence of warmth and softness. I shall sleep in mine, and dream of African hill- sides wrapt ...

— Letters from the Cape • Lady Duff Gordon

... clothes, he was evidently a person of importance. Had Barbara awakened at the Court of Pekin? Her companion wore a loose, black satin coat, heavily embroidered in flowers and dragons and a round, close fitting silk cap with a button on top ...

— The Automobile Girls At Washington • Laura Dent Crane

... country itself required too much of the care of her rulers and patriots to admit of the consideration of lesser objects. With the best of hearts and affections devoted to the welfare of her niece, Miss Emmerson had early discovered her own incompetency to the labour of fitting Julia for the world in which she was to live, and shrunk with timid modesty from the arduous task of preparing herself, by application and study, for this sacred duty. The fashions of the day were rapidly running into the attainment of accomplishments among the young of her ...

— Tales for Fifteen: or, Imagination and Heart • James Fenimore Cooper

... usurped her place; but brave to fate and timid of man; stern to herself, forbearing to all weak and erring things; silent, yet sometimes sparkling with happy sallies. For to represent her as she was would be her noblest and most fitting monument. ...

— Emily Bront • A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) Robinson

... remedy we can administer to this young lady, as well as the most fitting penance for our own discourtesy to her, is to escort her through a glass factory and let her, with her own eyes, behold the process. ...

— The Story of Glass • Sara Ware Bassett

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