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fit1 verb (fitted or (N Amer) fit, fitting) 1 tr & intr to be the right shape or size for something or someone • Fortunately the new car fitted into the garage • The jeans fitted him well. 2 to be suitable or appropriate for something • a punishment that fits the crime. 3 tr & intr to be consistent or compatible with something • a theory that fits the facts. 4 to install or put something new in place • fit the new kitchen sink. 5 to equip • Warning! This car is fitted with an alarm. 6 (often fit someone for something) to make them suitable • qualities that fit her for the job. 7 to try clothes on someone to see where adjustment is needed • The tailor fitted the suit by pinning the seams. noun the way something fits according to its shape or size • a good fit • a tight fit. adj (fitter, fittest) 1 a healthy; feeling good • Are you fit today? b healthy, especially because of exercise • He's the fittest of all. 2 about to do something, or apparently so • looked fit to drop. adverb enough to do something • laughed fit to burst. fitly adverb. fitness noun. fit for something suited to it; good enough for it. fit like a glove to fit perfectly. fit the bill to be perfectly suited to something; to be just right. see or think fit to choose to do something.
ETYMOLOGY: 15c.

fit in 1 said of someone in a social situation: to behave in a suitable or accepted way • She never quite fitted in. 2 to be appropriate or to conform to certain arrangements • The dates of the flight fitted in with my plans.

fit in or into something to be small or few enough to be contained in it • Five people fitted into the car.

fit someone or something in to find time to deal with them or it • I can't fit you in before Friday.

fit something out to furnish or equip it with all necessary things for its particular purpose • fit out the ship.

fit something together or fit something in to insert or place it in position.

fit someone up colloq to incriminate them; to frame them.

fit something up to install it by putting it up and making it work • fitted up the satellite dish.

fit2 noun 1 a sudden attack of one or more symptoms, usually of an involuntary and relatively violent nature, eg convulsions in grand mal epilepsy, eg epileptic fit, or paroxysms of coughing, eg coughing fit. 2 a burst, spell or bout • a fit of giggles. by or in fits and starts in irregular spells; spasmodically. in fits colloq laughing uncontrollably. have or throw a fit to become very angry.
ETYMOLOGY: Anglo-Saxon fitt struggle.