FIT


Meaning of FIT in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a built-in/fitted cupboard British English (= ones that are there permanently and cannot be moved )

The kitchen has built-in cupboards.

a fit of laughter (= a period in which you laugh uncontrollably )

Her funny stories had us in fits of laughter.

a fit of rage

In a fit of rage, he seized the poor man by the shoulders and shouted at him.

a fit of (the) giggles (= a short time when you laugh a lot in a way you cannot control )

The boys collapsed in a fit of giggles.

a fit/flash/burst of temper (= when you are very angry for a short time )

A businessman assaulted his wife and son in a fit of temper, a court heard yesterday.

a fit/outburst of anger (= an occasion when someone suddenly becomes angry )

His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him.

a fitted carpet (= cut to fit a room, and fixed to the floor )

Do you prefer rugs or a fitted carpet?

a fitting climax (= a very suitable one )

The concert was a very successful occasion and a fitting climax to the school year.

a fitting end to sth (= right for a particular situation or occasion )

The fireworks display was a fitting end to the celebrations.

a tight fit (= it fits too tightly )

The jacket is rather a tight fit .

be a tight squeeze/fit

Six in the car will be a tight squeeze.

epileptic fit

He had an epileptic fit .

fit a pattern ( also conform to a pattern formal ) (= match a particular pattern )

Last week’s bombing fits this pattern.

fit in/into a space

Decide what kind of table and chairs will fit best into the space.

fit into a category

Rogers doesn’t fit into either category.

fit the mould (= be like other things of the same type )

She doesn't fit the mould of the stereotypical mother.

fit/conform to a stereotype (= be like the usual idea of something )

He doesn’t fit the stereotype of a Stanford student.

fit/lay a carpet (= cut it to fit a room and fix it to the floor )

Will it cost extra to have the carpet fitted?

fit/match a description (= be like the person in a police description )

The first man they arrested did not fit the description given by the victim.

fitted/built-in wardrobes (= wardrobes built against a wall or fitted between two walls )

fitting room

hissy fit

Williams threw a hissy fit when she decided her hotel room wasn’t big enough.

in a fit of jealousy (= because a sudden feeling of jealousy makes you do something )

In a fit of jealousy, Ben broke off their engagement.

in a fit of pique

He stormed out in a fit of pique .

just/fitting (= appropriate and right )

Death would be a just punishment.

keep fit

Peter cycles to work to keep fit .

keep fit

physically fit

It is important to keep yourself physically fit.

pipe fitter

the punishment should fit the crime (= it should be appropriate )

The public believe that the punishment should fit the crime.

threw a conniption fit

My mother threw a conniption fit when I didn’t come home till two in the morning.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

all

Would you like to wear a size 10 or 12 dress that fitted all over?

The Centralism principles all fit together.

No, but the engine and gearbox and front axle will all fit .

And it all fitted , didn't it?

Robert's sorrow and regret seemed genuine, but it all fitted in with what Dawn had told her.

It all fitted neatly into place.

Can we all fit in along this short wall?

easily

It is usually simplest if a washing machine can go next to the sink, but it can easily fit in other places.

But a little beef now and then can easily fit in a well-balanced diet.

Yet, overlapping is inevitable whenever risk categories fit easily into more than one compartment.

Our own children have not seen much evidence that women can easily fit a career around a marriage and motherhood.

They housed children who could not find foster parents or who were too old to fit easily into a new family environment.

Teacher Song, a slender man, fit easily into the crawl space.

Range Rover diffs will fit easily but, with a worn engine, will probably make the consumption worse than it is.

They may seem a lot, but in fact they fit easily into a single bag.

neatly

Secondly, there is a temptation to attach a diagnostic label to each condition so that it fits neatly on the problem list.

Your resume should fit neatly on to two pages.

Some designs fit neatly into circles and would be suitable for, say, small turned boxes, coasters or shallow platters.

This does not mean that no Republican can be found who would fit neatly into a Clinton Cabinet.

The Smiths fit neatly into this strategy as the exception to the rule.

It is noteworthy that none of the students interviewed for this book fits neatly into these or other equally simplistic categories.

Consequently what does not fit neatly into existing experience is anomalous and apt to seem mystically dangerous.

The two neatly fit under the city gate, and the groom counted a third fool to himself.

perfectly

They always fit perfectly , look painted on, and some have caused quite a furore in the past.

The martini perfectly fits the bill because of its simplicity.

John Bowes perfectly fits that bill.

His cerebral sound fits perfectly with the cool musings of Mulligan and Baker.

They had altered the dress so that it fitted perfectly .

The roll fits perfectly well if you stand it on the roller and lean it against the wall.

Until that moment Sabour had seemed to fit perfectly into the demoralized atmosphere of the classroom.

together

A Youngman protégé could take over the old boy's lecturing responsibilities and everything would fit together rather nicely.

Similarly, a child with a visual-spatial difficulty may not easily notice how different building materials or action figures fit together .

Did her excitement at the way the evidence fitted together mean she wanted it to be true?

They were fitted together like spoons.

Then you will understand how all the pieces fit together .

The world and I fit together so well!

Instead it works as an artistic whole: these performers fit together .

Rather, they are a fitting together of parts, each with its integrity intact.

well

In addition, these styles do not fit well with walnut dining room tables and candlelit evenings.

Lessons from the Visual Perception and Sound units fit well with work on the human body.

To prevent problems you must take care in buying shoes that fit well .

This is a strong assumption, but it fits well into the approach taken in this study which abstracts from intraindustry heterogeneity.

It was well fitted out, with a formidable medicine chest.

But last spring, they seemed more than players with talents that fit well together and friends that got along comfortably.

Exploratory techniques are extremely well fitted to sociolinguistic research.

The low-growing peacock gingers also would fit well in such a grouping.

■ NOUN

description

The description certainly didn't fit Gloria.

Their descriptions fit this monster exactly.

If the description fits some one else in the office, take action.

The description fit the 1997 Giants, too, perhaps even better than the originals.

The description fits the man we saw outside the opera the other night.

In a city of 500, 000, that description could fit tens of thousands.

The description fits her, Brother.

Only our titles and job descriptions fit into the frame.

shoe

To prevent problems you must take care in buying shoes that fit well.

Williams made his return wearing his infamous red shoes that had specially fitted insoles for his arch.

His little red hat and shoes still fitted him.

I should have been kitted out a week earlier but they'd got no shoes to fit me.

If the shoe fits ...

The only shoes which would fit me were a pair of ski-boots.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be fitted with sth

All the ground floor windows were fitted with iron bars, a sufficient deterrent for the average break-and-enter boys.

And you must notice in this new first smoker the seats and backs are fitted with embossed crimson leather.

Before leaving the hospital Thursday, he was fitted with a portable brain-wave monitor that he was to wear for 24-48 hours.

But how many diesel cars are fitted with catalysts?

Doors will now have to be fitted with special safety devices to prevent people or objects getting trapped in them.

Most myopic children can be fitted with glasses with concave lenses which will bring their vision to normal.

This point means that where a motor vehicle is required to be fitted with wipers it must also have washers.

fit/fill the bill

A floral design with a Regency stripe background, for example, fits the bill perfectly.

And the martini fits the bill ?

But it also fits the bill because people could order their favorite liquor.

It is revealing, therefore, to see what sort of people are thought to fit the bill in these places.

It just happened that Bobby filled the bill in this case.

Many other jobs get handed out simply because a minister happens to know some one who might fit the bill .

The fact that she and Hugh happened to fit the bill seemed to give her every opportunity for finding out.

The martini perfectly fits the bill because of its simplicity.

moment/fit of madness

A brief moment of madness , I admit.

Essex are likely to fine Neil Foster for his moments of madness yesterday.

Francis made his will in a moment of madness .

Grandcourt finds Gwendolen screaming in a fit of madness .

He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness .

In a moment of madness Rosenoir kicked Alan Kernaghan as he lay on the ground.

It was a moment of madness .

Just that one brief moment of madness ... Then the bitter tears of self-reproach.

ready/fit for the knacker's yard

sb's face doesn't fit

survival of the fittest

And as all we fifths of six know, life is, ahem, strictly survival of the fittest.

It is survival of the fittest out there and if I had to do it again I believe I would.

Skiing involves the survival of the fittest.

The law of the survival of the fittest was not made by man.

These are metaphors of battle, struggle and the survival of the fittest.

They call it survival of the fittest, although it's their own survival they are now worried about.

We are now entering the era of strict personal accountability, value for money, and survival of the fittest.

violent headache/fit etc

A violent headache can be safely dissolved within minutes without having to resort to aspirin or paracetamol with their accompanying side-effects.

He still paid with violent headaches, but it could have been so much worse.

They were both attacked, one having a violent headache, the other being possessed as I now realised I had been.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A man fitting that description was seen running from the park.

Do these shoes still fit you?

Does your key fit the lock on the garage door?

He's put on so much weight that his clothes don't fit any more.

I'm going to have a new exhaust system fitted next week.

I'm looking for the puzzle piece that fits here.

I had to fit new locks after the burglary.

The pants fit fine, but the jacket's too small.

The pants were a little tight at first, but after I wore them a few times, they fit like a glove.

We've designed a computer that fits into an ordinary briefcase.

We were going to put the fridge between the stove and the washing machine, but it wouldn't fit .

Will this bag fit in the trunk?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Assess how your possessions fit into your new lifestyle together.

He had to get his suits tailored to fit him.

On the plus side, a fold-down Plexiglas cover is fitted to the front of the saw, ahead of the blade.

Ptolemy's epicycles could still fit the data.

The concept fitted the times, for this was a yeasty period.

They had altered the dress so that it fitted perfectly.

II. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

fully

Head-injured patients are normally admitted to hospital and kept there until it is certain that they are fully fit to return home.

Once the children were fully fit , the family went on to Paris, where they stayed for two months.

Still it gives Wallace, Speed and Strachan? chance to get fully fit .

This check up shows he's fully fit to carry out his strenuous lifestyle as a hospital porter.

And manager Walter Smith said he would not play him unless he was fully fit .

I know Gazza is not yet fully fit .

A fully fit Rodney Warriner behind the stumps would be an obvious bonus.

physically

Questions will be asked, even if they are not asked publicly, about whether he is physically fit to continue in office.

He must have been physically fit to survive the punishing schedule to which he submitted himself.

A person with odd knowledge, odd skills, physically fit .

For these reasons industry is moving towards a concept of the ideal worker as a physically fit adaptable young person.

Singing the booking form shows that you believe yourself and your companions to be physically fit and healthy to take part.

There are numerous flights of stairs, therefore the tour is only suitable for reasonably physically fit people.

reasonably

Foot notes: this is a cracking circuit which should be within the capacities of any reasonably fit walker.

You must be reasonably fit and be sure you can handle the prevailing wind, weather and tidal conditions.

■ NOUN

state

I was in no fit state to move a muscle.

He was in no fit state to know.

An innkeeper can refuse service to any person who is not in a fit state to be received at the inn.

If she'd stayed in a fit state then she wouldn't have found herself in this situation now.

When I was in a fit state she asked if I would like to talk to her.

With so many major projects in hand she wanted to make sure that everything was in a fit state .

But he was in no fit state .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

fighting fit

Consequently, it hosts an excellent wild brown trout population and fish are pink-fleshed and fighting fit, averaging 10oz in weight.

Masie had responded brilliantly to treatment and seemed fighting fit.

She was taken in by Maggie Taylor and now five month old Teka is fighting fit and lapping up all the attention.

fit/fill the bill

A floral design with a Regency stripe background, for example, fits the bill perfectly.

And the martini fits the bill ?

But it also fits the bill because people could order their favorite liquor.

It is revealing, therefore, to see what sort of people are thought to fit the bill in these places.

It just happened that Bobby filled the bill in this case.

Many other jobs get handed out simply because a minister happens to know some one who might fit the bill .

The fact that she and Hugh happened to fit the bill seemed to give her every opportunity for finding out.

The martini perfectly fits the bill because of its simplicity.

moment/fit of madness

A brief moment of madness , I admit.

Essex are likely to fine Neil Foster for his moments of madness yesterday.

Francis made his will in a moment of madness .

Grandcourt finds Gwendolen screaming in a fit of madness .

He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness .

In a moment of madness Rosenoir kicked Alan Kernaghan as he lay on the ground.

It was a moment of madness .

Just that one brief moment of madness ... Then the bitter tears of self-reproach.

ready/fit for the knacker's yard

sb's face doesn't fit

survival of the fittest

And as all we fifths of six know, life is, ahem, strictly survival of the fittest.

It is survival of the fittest out there and if I had to do it again I believe I would.

Skiing involves the survival of the fittest.

The law of the survival of the fittest was not made by man.

These are metaphors of battle, struggle and the survival of the fittest.

They call it survival of the fittest, although it's their own survival they are now worried about.

We are now entering the era of strict personal accountability, value for money, and survival of the fittest.

throw a fit/tantrum

Rogers threw a fit when he didn't get the sales account.

But she could not go home, given how she felt; fit to throw a tantrum.

Hannah cried furiously and frequently threw tantrums when she had to put them on in the morning.

He threw a tantrum when she complained he should have treated her earlier.

He could throw a tantrum or a punch.

If you have children, you may have experienced them coming home from school and immediately throwing a tantrum in front of you.

Try to avoid surprises and avoid throwing a tantrum yourself.

You will not scream and throw a tantrum.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Cycling is a good way to keep fit .

I stay fit by swimming for an hour each morning.

Just because you're in your sixties doesn't mean you can't be physically fit .

Sandy's very fit - he runs almost 30 miles a week.

Sandy's very fit - he runs five miles every day.

We've got a match next month, so we've got to keep ourselves reasonably fit .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All are contented, happy, fit and well.

In May, Harvey wrote to say that he and his wife were now fit to return to duty.

The Allstar forward has been battling against injury lately and is given a 50/50 chance of being fit for Sunday.

We might speculate that those with dementia would be less willing to participate in a research project than the mentally fit .

When will Mark Tinkler be fit ?.

III. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

close

To support the foot during play there is a lateral support strap which also ensures that the shoe has a close fit .

The easiest way to rectify this is to carefully file away any excess metal until a closer fit is achieved.

Thousands of plants and animals reveal a close fit between the divisions revealed by genes and the groups long used by classifiers.

The first was its close fit with observed inheritance.

Technical advances in fleece continue apace such as with the stretch version which gives improved insulation and greater mobility through a closer fit .

It doesn't have to be a close fit , initially you want a very loose fitting so there's a draught.

coughing

This time, it did not dissolve into a coughing fit .

All thoughts of her had vanished in the midst of his hunger pangs and coughing fits .

Mrs Wright had a coughing fit , holding her chest and her eyes watering.

He put the phone down and had a violent coughing fit .

Suddenly a coughing fit seized him and a stab of agony lanced through him from back to front.

epileptic

We are able to resume ourselves after sleep, after an alcoholic stupor, after an epileptic fit , after prolonged coma.

When you pulled her close, she shook all over as if she were having an epileptic fit .

Doctors at the National Epilepsy centre at the Park hospital in Oxford carry out research into what can trigger epileptic fits .

Jean's son Darren died from a major epileptic fit three months after this interview.

Mr Ballantyne said that he ran out of a drug used to control Mr Stockton's epileptic fits .

He said he had never known a child die of an epileptic fit .

Sadly, Rose suffered a major setback one day, when she had a grand mal epileptic fit .

good

The evening suit was not a good fit and he looked as though he was part of a Marx brothers film.

In what ways is the job a good fit for you? 2.

This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson's type of batch equipment.

Starr is a good fit for other reasons.

I had to admit that the frame was a good fit .

In some ways the job had been a good fit , since he was clearly the best technical problem-solver in the organization.

Try to find a shop that sells half-sizes and, even better , different widths to ensure a good fit .

The concept was a good fit for Costco and Portland, where the company has its highest volume store.

loose

In my own travels, I found a loose fit between learning that occurred at the workplace and in schools.

perfect

Johnson is a perfect fit for Mississippi State.

Sharp young coach and a perfect fit for a brand new team bursting with demographics.

If we have a perfect fit between what we want and what we get we do not bother about priorities.

I wanted him back because I thought he was a perfect fit for David as far as being vocal.

The priorities are obviously included in the perfect fit .

And for much of the play, it looks like an almost perfect fit .

It's also the same height as your kitchen units for a perfect fit .

Ogden and Arizona seem a perfect fit .

tight

After turning the Disc you have a tighter fit , but not necessarily a better one.

It was going to be a tight fit .

This tighter fit enables caffeine to plug the receptor, thus preventing adenosine from binding.

He got up as quickly as the tight fit of the table in the breakfast nook would allow.

We arrive in Paris, and make a tight fit into a tiny chambre de bonne in the Fifteenth Arrondissement.

Our two-part feature on Jack Alcock concludes on page 37. Tight fit .

■ VERB

cough

I assumed she could sleep straight through a coughing fit .

find

In putting a jigsaw puzzle together he may move the pieces around to improve his chances of finding a fit .

In my own travels, I found a loose fit between learning that occurred at the workplace and in schools.

start

It has continued in fits and starts ever since.

But civilization was approaching in fits and starts .

This means the machine tends to go forward in fits and starts , sometimes quite quickly but at other times embarrassingly slowly.

The conversation is awkward, moving in fits and starts .

Although change often unfolds in fits and starts , organisations can learn to improve.

What was their history: had they progressed smoothly or with fits and starts ?

Street lighting is spasmodic and piped water comes in sluggish fits and starts .

In fits and starts he told Seton, Ramsay, Gray and others the sorry tale.

suffer

He hasn't suffered another fit since.

Quite unharmed by her experience but suffering from a fit of the sulks.

Perhaps she had suffered a small fit after all, or could it have been a touch of fever?

After Darren was born, he had to stay in hospital an extra ten days because he suffered from epileptic fits .

Last November we had the distressing experience of seeing Sam suffer an epileptic fit .

throw

But nobody anticipated that Bob Dole would throw a nicotine fit .

When I refused he threw a fit .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be fitted with sth

All the ground floor windows were fitted with iron bars, a sufficient deterrent for the average break-and-enter boys.

And you must notice in this new first smoker the seats and backs are fitted with embossed crimson leather.

Before leaving the hospital Thursday, he was fitted with a portable brain-wave monitor that he was to wear for 24-48 hours.

But how many diesel cars are fitted with catalysts?

Doors will now have to be fitted with special safety devices to prevent people or objects getting trapped in them.

Most myopic children can be fitted with glasses with concave lenses which will bring their vision to normal.

This point means that where a motor vehicle is required to be fitted with wipers it must also have washers.

fighting fit

Consequently, it hosts an excellent wild brown trout population and fish are pink-fleshed and fighting fit, averaging 10oz in weight.

Masie had responded brilliantly to treatment and seemed fighting fit.

She was taken in by Maggie Taylor and now five month old Teka is fighting fit and lapping up all the attention.

fit/fill the bill

A floral design with a Regency stripe background, for example, fits the bill perfectly.

And the martini fits the bill ?

But it also fits the bill because people could order their favorite liquor.

It is revealing, therefore, to see what sort of people are thought to fit the bill in these places.

It just happened that Bobby filled the bill in this case.

Many other jobs get handed out simply because a minister happens to know some one who might fit the bill .

The fact that she and Hugh happened to fit the bill seemed to give her every opportunity for finding out.

The martini perfectly fits the bill because of its simplicity.

moment/fit of madness

A brief moment of madness , I admit.

Essex are likely to fine Neil Foster for his moments of madness yesterday.

Francis made his will in a moment of madness .

Grandcourt finds Gwendolen screaming in a fit of madness .

He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness .

In a moment of madness Rosenoir kicked Alan Kernaghan as he lay on the ground.

It was a moment of madness .

Just that one brief moment of madness ... Then the bitter tears of self-reproach.

ready/fit for the knacker's yard

sb's face doesn't fit

survival of the fittest

And as all we fifths of six know, life is, ahem, strictly survival of the fittest.

It is survival of the fittest out there and if I had to do it again I believe I would.

Skiing involves the survival of the fittest.

The law of the survival of the fittest was not made by man.

These are metaphors of battle, struggle and the survival of the fittest.

They call it survival of the fittest, although it's their own survival they are now worried about.

We are now entering the era of strict personal accountability, value for money, and survival of the fittest.

throw a fit/tantrum

Rogers threw a fit when he didn't get the sales account.

But she could not go home, given how she felt; fit to throw a tantrum.

Hannah cried furiously and frequently threw tantrums when she had to put them on in the morning.

He threw a tantrum when she complained he should have treated her earlier.

He could throw a tantrum or a punch.

If you have children, you may have experienced them coming home from school and immediately throwing a tantrum in front of you.

Try to avoid surprises and avoid throwing a tantrum yourself.

You will not scream and throw a tantrum.

violent headache/fit etc

A violent headache can be safely dissolved within minutes without having to resort to aspirin or paracetamol with their accompanying side-effects.

He still paid with violent headaches, but it could have been so much worse.

They were both attacked, one having a violent headache, the other being possessed as I now realised I had been.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I began running about a month ago to improve my physical fitness.

I had a coughing fit that lasted nearly an hour.

The magazine contained several articles about healthy eating, fitness, and exercise.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But his proposals for electoral reform, now moving ahead in fits and starts, contain no such provision.

He started to have fits and he suffered permanent damage.

I wanted him back because I thought he was a perfect fit for David as far as being vocal.

The boy had a history of fits.

This means the machine tends to go forward in fits and starts, sometimes quite quickly but at other times embarrassingly slowly.

IV. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Assess how your possessions fit into your new lifestyle together.

He had to get his suits tailored to fit him.

Johnson found it full of weeds; today it is tailored and fitted.

On the plus side, a fold-down Plexiglas cover is fitted to the front of the saw, ahead of the blade.

Ptolemy's epicycles could still fit the data.

The concept fitted the times, for this was a yeasty period.

There are definite health benefits to being fit .

They had altered the dress so that it fitted perfectly.

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