fit
/fɪt/ noun B2- The degree to which something fits. · This shirt is a bad fit.· Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit.
- Conformity of elements one to another. · It's hard to get a good fit using second-hand parts.
- The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
- Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand. · The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.
- Goodness of fit.
- The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump. · During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.
Plural fits
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 To be suitable for. C2
- 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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