noun
- Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances.
- synonyms: adjustment, accommodation
- A small and often standardized accessory to a larger system.
- Usually plural. ( furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel))
- synonyms: appointment
- Putting clothes on to see whether they fit.
verb
- Be agreeable or acceptable to.
- usage: "This suits my needs"
- synonyms: suit, accommodate, fit
- Be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired.
- usage: "This piece won't fit into the puzzle"
- Satisfy a condition or restriction.
- usage: "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree"
- synonyms: meet, fit, conform to
- Make fit.
- usage: "fit a dress"; "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"
- synonyms: fit
- Insert or adjust several objects or people.
- usage: "Can you fit the toy into the box"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment"
- synonyms: fit
- Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.
- usage: "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"
- Conform to some shape or size.
- usage: "How does this shirt fit"
- synonyms: fit
- Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose.
- usage: "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities"
- Make correspond or harmonize.
- usage: "Match my sweater"
adjective
- In harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion.
- usage: "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.
- usage: "it is only meet that she should be seated first"
- synonyms: meet
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