Word Finder - fit

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The degree to which something fits.

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Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit.

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Conformity of elements one to another.

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It's hard to get a good fit using second-hand parts.

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The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.

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Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.

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The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.

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Goodness of fit.

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The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.

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During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.

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To be suitable for.

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It fits the purpose.

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To conform to in size and shape.

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If I lose a few kilos, the gorgeous wedding dress might fit me.

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To be of the right size and shape

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I wanted to borrow my little sister's jeans, but they didn't fit.

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(with to) To make conform in size and shape.

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I want to fit the drapes to the windows.

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To be in agreement with.

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These definitions fit most of the usage.

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To adjust.

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The regression program fit a line to the data.

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To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.

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To equip or supply.

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The chandler will fit us with provisions for a month.

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To make ready.

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I'm fitting the ship for a summer sail home.

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To be seemly.

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To be proper or becoming.

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To be in harmony.

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The paint, the fabrics, the rugs all fit.

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Suitable, proper.

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You have nothing to say about it. I'll do exactly as I see fit.

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Adapted to a purpose or environment.

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survival of the fittest

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In good shape; physically well.

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You don't have to be a good climber for Kilimanjaro, but you do have to be fit.

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Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.

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I think the girl working in the office is fit.

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Prepared; ready.

Wherever we go, I can find a job to fit my goals.

It was fit for a queen.

I really won't fit in.

Leave it to those who are no longer fit for anything else....

My clothes don't fit right.

They are neither fit for war nor peace!

I'm sure you'll fit into his plans.

Julie doesn't fit that description.

The general had a fit of coughing as a result of shouting and of the powder smoke and stopped in despair.

She simply enjoyed their pleasure and tried to fit in with it.

She was alone in a world she didn't fit into, and she wanted more than anything to escape.

In 1894 he retired from active work, and on the 10th of February 1901 he shot himself in a fit of depression at his home on the Starnberger See, near Munich.

At best they fit a very austere conception of what it is to be human.

This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments.

In any case, she would never be a social fit.

Any other day, she'd have stared at his hard body and the way his jeans hugged his muscular thighs and the round globes of his backside, or the T-shirt that fit so well.

She pulled on the jumper, not expecting it to fit and surprised to find the leather-like material as flexible as spandex.

I helped Jackson pick out some suits a while back… how did they fit?

It doesn't fit with Byrne's lifestyle.

He felt a new breath, a new strength, as if he were just beginning his ride in a young and fit body.

That in the palace gardens flowers from the tierra caliente were transplanted, and water-fowl bred near fresh and salt pools fit for each kind, that all kinds of birds and beasts were kept in well-appointed zoological gardens, where there were homes even for alligators and snakes - all this testifies to a cultivation of natural history which was really beyond the European level of the time.

The Hero, Left At The Head Of A Fatherless Family Of Twelve When Nearly Through College, Turns From The Glut Of Graduates Swarming Round The Prospects Of Professional City Bred Careers, Steadfastly Wrests A Home From The Wilderness, Helps His Brothers And Sisters, Marries A Habitante Fit For The Wife Of A Pioneer,.

On This Account Lilius Thought Fit To Reject The Golden Numbers From The Calendar, And Supply Their Place By Another Set Of Numbers Called Epacts, The Use Of Which We Shall Now Proceed To Explain.

It is derived from 7ravrjryuptKen (a speech) "fit for a general assembly" (7raviryupes, panegyris).

Other female figures are modelled in a paste, upon a stick, and the black hair is sometimes made separately to fit on as a wig over the red head, showing that wigs were then used.

I found that using amyl acetate made me sensitive to it, so that I always have a coughing fit when eating pear drops.

Fromm has borne a long standing animus against minorities and immigrants who do not fit into his profile of what Canada should look like.

Also, they fit best during the mambo sections of the tune, but they may be danced whenever the dancers feel appropriate.

The three different sizes of spool standard, large arbor or super arbor will fit on one size of housing.

Albert is long dead - killed in a fit of pique by Harold hurling an assegai through the door of the kazee.

A " best fit " between the detections and the optical background is used to precisely fix the astrometry of each field.

To better fit president Brian keith see quot dealing.

It was about a foot in diameter at the big end, and he had expected to get a good saw-log, but it was so rotten as to be fit only for fuel, if for that.

They've made up splendid packs for me--fit to cross the Bohemian mountains with.

But all these hints at what happened, both from the French side and the Russian, are advanced only because they fit in with the event.

The corps were, however, by no means fit for immediate service.

How many were killed can never be known, but three days later the total number of men reported fit for duty had fallen to 8800 only.

His mode of viewing Christianity does not fit into any classification.

The latter had abandoned the cause of Duke Robert, who remained a prisoner in England till his death (1134); but they embraced that of Robert's son William the Clito, whom Henry in a fit of generosity had allowed to go free after Tinchebrai.

On hearing this shocking news King Wenceslaus was seized with an apoplectic fit, and died a few days afterwards.

The ventral valve in many of the genera is provided with two curved hinge-teeth, which fit into corresponding sockets in the opposite valve, so that the valves cannot be separated without breaking one of the teeth.

Ewing (Magnetic Induction, § 194) has devised an arrangement in which two similar test bars are placed side by side; each bar is surrounded by a magnetizing coil, the two coils being connected to give opposite directions of magnetization, and each pair of ends is connected by a short massive block of soft iron having holes bored through it to fit the bars, which are clamped in position by set-screws.

In all such measurements a correction should be made in respect of the demagnetizing force due to the joint, and unless the fit is very accurate the demagnetizing action will be variable.

The Aristotelian form refused to fit a matter for which it was never intended; the matter of Christian theology refused to be forced into an alien form.

If the aperture be such as to fit exactly an integral number of zones, the aggregate effect may be regarded as the half of those due to the first and last zones.

These details would fit the time of religious persecution under Antiochus, to which indeed Ps.

His description of the Temple ritual is not strictly accurate, but he speaks of the worshippers as passing the night in gazing at the stars and calling on God in prayer; his words, if they do not exactly fit anything in the later ritual, are well fitted to illustrate the original liturgical use of Ps.

Here it is only necessary to state that the Voortrekkers were animated by an intense desire to be altogether rid of British control, and to be allowed to set up independent communities and govern the natives in such fashion as they saw fit.

The tin of the second bath dissolves iron gradually and becomes fit for the first bath.

The young are about an inch in length by the end of spring, but are not fit for the market till the second year, and it has been stated that they do not reach maturity, as shown by the power of reproduction, till the end of their third year.