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
From the library
If a home is happy it cannot fit too close—let the dresser collapse and become a billiard table; let the mantel turn to a rowing machine, the escritoire to a spare bedchamber, the washstand to an upright piano; let the four walls come together, if they will, so you and your Delia are between.
“Tabaqui came to me not long ago with some rude talk that I was a naked man’s cub and not fit to dig pig-nuts.
It’s a far worse thing than her fit of temper.
I’ll make it to fit my niece, Jenny Gillis, for she and Anne are as like as two peas as far as figure goes.”
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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