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fitting

/ˈfɪtɪŋ/ sustantivo B2

En español: entalladura, entallamiento, talladura, montaje

  1. An act of trying on an item of clothing to adjust or inspect how well it fits. (countable, uncountable)
  2. A (generally small) component or part of a device or machine, especially one that is standardized and replaceable; specifically, a standardized part of a piping system used to connect sections of pipe together, such as a coupling. (countable)
  3. The process of fitting up; especially, of applying skilled methods to the installation of components to machines or other products. (uncountable)

Plural fittings

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As you look at their grey stone huts against the scarred hillsides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 92 · C1
The Fox, unable even to taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her own hospitality.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 84 · B2
A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.
The Valley of Fear, p. 19 · C1
Seeing a thrush sitting upon a tree, he wished to take it, and fitting his twigs to a proper length, watched intently, having his whole thoughts directed towards the sky.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 77 · B2

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