<adj.all> 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
physically and mentally sound or healthy
<adj.all> felt relaxed and fit after their holiday keeps fit with diet and exercise
(usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed
<adj.all> 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
Fit \Fit\, v. i. 1. To be proper or becoming.
Nor fits it to prolong the feast. --Pope.
2. To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.
Fit \Fit\, imp. & p. p. of {Fight}. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Fit \Fit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fitting}.] 1. 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. --Macaulay.
2. 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. 13.
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. --Shak.
4. 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.
Fit \Fit\, n. [AS. fitt a song.] In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus. [Written also {fitte}, {fytte}, etc.]
To play some pleasant fit. --Spenser.
Fit \Fit\, a. [Compar. {Fitter}; superl. {Fittest}.] [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat, elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten to suit, square, Goth. f?tjan to adorn. [root]77.] 1. Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. --Shak.
Fit audience find, though few. --Milton.
2. Prepared; ready. [Obs.]
So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel. --Fairfax.
3. Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked? --Job xxxiv. 18.
Fit \Fit\, n. 1. The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.
2. (Mach.) (a) The coincidence of parts that come in contact. (b) The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
{Fit rod} (Shipbuilding), a gauge rod used to try the depth of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of the bolt required. --Knight.
Fit \Fit\, n. [AS. fit strife, fight; of uncertain origin. [root] 77.] 1. A stroke or blow. [Obs. or R.]
Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin, That keeps thy body from the bitter fit. --Spenser.
2. A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.
And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake. --Shak.
3. A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit of melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.
All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain. --Swift.
The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. --Macaulay.
4. A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or inaction; an impulsive and irregular action.
The fits of the season. --Shak.
5. A darting point; a sudden emission. [R.]
A tongue of light, a fit of flame. --Coleridge.
{By fits}, {By fits and starts}, by intervals of action and repose; impulsively and irregularly; intermittently.
It said the Kay stores, mostly on the East and West Coasts and in Texas, would fit in well with Sterling Inc., a U.S. jewelry retailer that Ratners acquired in 1987 for $203 million.
It is just as important that any new DG can stand up to bullying from the likes of Mick Newmarch, the Pru's rumbustious boss, as from the Office of Fair Trading. Hard to imagine who would fit the bill given the ABI's current structure.
I am sure it is radio-active. Imagine my amazement, then, every time I read an article about efforts to re-establish the Thames as a river fit for salmon.
Thrift industry sources speculated that Great Western executives had decided that acquiring Financial Corp. or some of its operations didn't fit Great Western's plans to emphasize expansion outside California, into Florida, Texas and the Northeast.
We quickly consigned an insurance salesman from Florida to be our "advance man," since he seemed most fit and least likely to lose the boards in the drink as we experimented with different, jerry-rigged configurations.
He sits under a crystal chandelier in a room fit for a Hapsburg.
If Poland had equipment using Western microprocessors, the whole operation could fit into a single room, said Janusz Cienecki, the engineer in charge of the center.
Looking fit and tan from tennis, jogging and a vacation in the Caucasus Mountains, the 58-year-old Yeltsin was as outspoken as ever in a recent interview.
"The banks we think would fit into our concept are either government-owned or not for sale, though Deutsche Bank would be able to pay a good price."
This was augmented last winter, when USAir agreed to operate the former Trump Shuttle which flies between Washington DC-New York-Boston. So the airlines respective routes fit fairly neatly together.
The Italians conceded Ms. Cooper's case did not fit those categories.
It smelled delicious and looked wonderful. She had cut it like this for practical reasons - in order to fit the narrow drawer-like oven at the bottom of her wood- burning stove.
Even the fabricators that fit glass into window sashes or install windows on construction projects often are beholden to makers, some say. Japanese executives dispute that.
The entire burden of assessing whether land is fit for development will now fall on local authorities.'
To ensure a quicker launch, NASA and the Air Force had it redesigned to fit into the $65 million Atlas.
He said a doctor examined her on Aug. 12 and found her completely fit.
'It seems like they are trying to fit a square into a round hole,' he said.
The Rev. Norman Nawrocki, the archdiocese's grievance clerk, has 20 days to decide whether the grievances fit the archdiocese's guidelines for disputes.
Sources close to Torras S.A., the holding company for the Kuwait Investment Office's interests in Spain, say that company declined to buy Cruz because the price was far too high and the brewer didn't fit into Torras's strategy.
Of the two finalists, only the F-15 fit the original Japanese specification for a twin-engine plane.
They have a natural instinct to run dogs and coyotes out of their territory." In simpler times, a politician, a president, could tailor his message to fit his audience, and chances were the adjustments would go unnoticed.
Although the aid funds are to be approved through February of next year, Congress will be given an opportunity in November to review the situation and halt the aid if it sees fit.
"Each individual shareholder reserves the right to vote as they see fit," he said.
The acting looks authentic, although some of the Mississippi accents migrate to Maine. Wyllie Longmore as Meridian and Nicholas le Prevost as Parnell make their characters fit the situation.
She is definitely fit to plead.' Everywhere the play exalts the ordinary in Shirley's home, the patterns of survival, in prison the patterns of privilege.
Max's parents had argued in the New York case that giving grandparents visitation rights against the parents' objections was unconstitutional because it interfered with parents' rights to rear their children as they see fit.
In some sense, the labels fit.
One size does not fit all.
Barron's quoted a European auto analyst who said that Jaguar would be a good fit for either of the American auto giants.
What angers Mr. Hudson, known as a man who likes to be in control, are disclosures that don't fit into his strategy.