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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" Antonym: disagree.

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

... he managed to go over to her and extend his hand. The notion that a telepath would turn out to be this mind-searing Epitome had never crossed his mind, but now, somehow, it seemed perfectly fitting ...

— That Sweet Little Old Lady • Gordon Randall Garrett (AKA Mark Phillips)

... her—that of course was what he had done. Stransom made it all out in solitude, at leisure, fitting the unmatched pieces gradually together and dealing one by one with a hundred obscure points. She had known Hague only after her present friend's relations with him had wholly terminated; obviously indeed a good while after; and it was natural enough that of his ...

— The Altar of the Dead • Henry James

... from exciting pity, he roused in me feelings of the warmest enthusiasm. So far from seeming to ask for sympathy, he compelled admiration by force of his splendid pantomime, in witnessing which one forgot he had no voice, or remembered it only to see in the fact a fitting feature of the old portier he was playing. In the midst of my admiration for the actor, however, I studied the man himself; and I saw that he dominated his fellow-actors with a will of the most imperious sort. He swept along the action of the piece, and manipulated the rather poor company ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 • Various

... so," answered Andrews indifferently. "This engine was supposed to haul the regular train, but we had to take it for this work. Powder is more important than passengers these days. They were fitting out another passenger train at Atlanta when ...

— Tom of the Raiders • Austin Bishop

... outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue. But chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. Faber quisque fortunae suae, saith the poet. And the most frequent of external causes is, that the folly of one man, is the fortune of another. For no man prospers so suddenly, as by others' errors. Serpens nisi serpentem ...

— Essays - The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. - Verulam Viscount St. Albans • Francis Bacon

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