fit
/fɪt/ verb C2- To be suitable for. · It fits the purpose.
- To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there. · Ten clowns fit in the car, but not a hundred.· The elevator can fit up to 10 people.
- To conform to in size and shape. · The small shirt doesn't fit me, so I'll buy the medium size.· If I lose a few kilos, the gorgeous wedding dress might fit me.
- To be of the right size and shape · I wanted to borrow my little sister's jeans, but they didn't fit.· That plug fitted into the other socket, but it won't go in this one.
- To make conform in size and shape. · I want to fit the drapes to the windows.
- To tailor; to change to the appropriate size. · I had a suit fitted by the tailor.
- To be in agreement with. · These definitions fit most of the usage.
- To adjust. · The regression program fit a line to the data.
He/she/it fits · Past fitted · Past participle fitted · -ing form fitting
Verb forms
- Base form
- fit
- He/she/it
- fits
- Past
- fitted
- Past participle
- fitted
- -ing form
- fitting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But one of the tree’s prickles pierced his finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince fell down in a fainting fit.
She was going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
Her grief, which she had hitherto tried to restrain, now burst out in a violent fit of hysterical sobbing.
Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.”
Other matches
- fit Suitable A2
- fit To suffer a fit. B1
- fit The degree to which something fits. B2
- fit A seizure or convulsion. C2
- fit An outfit, a set of clothing. C2
- fit in To be physically capable of going into a space.
- fit into To be of the right size and shape to be placed ...
- fit out To provide a thing, a group, a person or onesel...
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