- adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking.A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- proper or becoming: This is not fit behavior for a funeral service.
- qualified or competent, as for an office or function: It took several interviews to find a fit candidate for the position.
- prepared or ready: Constant updating of methods and equipment will ensure that we're fit for the future.
- in good physical condition; in good health: He's fit for the race.
- Biology.
- being adapted to the prevailing conditions and producing offspring that survive to reproductive age.
- contributing genetic information to the gene pool of the next generation.
- (of a population) maintaining or increasing the group's numbers in the environment.
- to be adapted to or suitable for (a purpose, object, occasion, etc.).
- to be proper or becoming for.
- to be of the right size or shape for: The dress fitted her perfectly.
- to adjust or make conform: She had the jeweler fit the ring to her finger.
- to make qualified or competent: Courage and patience are among the qualities that fit a person for leadership.
- to prepare: This school fits students for college.
- to put with precise placement or adjustment: He fitted the picture into the frame.
- to provide; furnish; equip: I fitted the cabinet door with a new handle.
- to predict, calculate, or project (values) according to a model based on existing data.
- to be suitable or proper.
- to be of the right size or shape, as a garment for the wearer or any object or part for a thing to which it is applied: The shoes fit.
- the manner in which a thing fits: The fit was perfect.
- something that fits: The coat is a poor fit.
- the process of fitting.
- to furnish with supplies, equipment, clothing, furniture, or other requisites; supply; equip: In Kathmandu they found a supplier to fit out the trekking expedition.
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- extremely annoyed or angry: He was fit to be tied when I told him I'd wrecked the car.
- to the limit; exceedingly: She was dressed up fit to kill.
- a sudden, acute attack or manifestation of a disease, especially one marked by convulsions or unconsciousness: a fit of epilepsy.
- an onset, spell, or period of emotion, feeling, inclination, activity, etc.: a fit of anger;a fit of weeping.
- at irregular intervals; intermittently: This radio works by fits and starts.
- to become extremely excited or angry: Your father will throw a fit when he hears what you have done.
- a song, ballad, or story.
- a division of a song, ballad, or story.
- simple past tense of fight.
- Federal Insurance Tax.
- to be appropriate or suitable for (a situation, etc)
- to be of the correct size or shape for (a connection, container, etc)
- to adjust in order to render appropriate
- to supply with that which is needed
- to try clothes on (someone) in order to make adjustments if necessary
- to make competent or ready
- to locate with care
- to correspond with the facts or circumstances
- suitable to a purpose or design; appropriate
- having the right qualifications; qualifying
- in good health
- worthy or deserving
- in such an extreme condition that a specified consequence is likely
- (of a person) sexually attractive
- the manner in which something fits
- the act or process of fitting
- the correspondence between observed and predicted characteristics of a distribution or model
- a sudden attack or convulsion, such as an epileptic seizure
- a sudden spell of emotion
- an impulsive period of activity or lack of activity; mood
- to surprise a person in an outrageous manner
- to become very angry or excited
- in spasmodic spells; irregularly
- to have a sudden attack or convulsion, such as an epileptic seizure
- a story or song or a section of a story or song
