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fit·ter

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–noun

1.	a person or thing that fits.

2.	a person who fits garments.

3.	a worker who fits together or adjusts the parts of machinery.

4.	a person who supplies and fixes fittings or fixtures.

5.	a person who furnishes or equips with whatever is necessary for some purpose.

[Origin: 1650–60; fit¹ + -er¹

]

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Audio Help [fit] Pronunciation Key adjective, fit·ter, fit·test, verb, fit·ted or fit, fit·ting, noun

–adjective

1.	adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.

2.	proper or becoming: fit behavior.

3.	qualified or competent, as for an office or function: a fit candidate.

4.	prepared or ready: crops fit for gathering.

5.	in good physical condition; in good health: He's fit for the race.

Biology.

a.	being adapted to the prevailing conditions and producing offspring that survive to reproductive age.

b.	contributing genetic information to the gene pool of the next generation.

c.	(of a population) maintaining or increasing the group's numbers in the environment.

–verb (used with object)

7.	to be adapted to or suitable for (a purpose, object, occasion, etc.).

8.	to be proper or becoming for.

9.	to be of the right size or shape for: The dress fitted her perfectly.

10.	to adjust or make conform: to fit a ring to the finger.

11.	to make qualified or competent: qualities that fit one for leadership.

12.	to prepare: This school fits students for college.

13.	to put with precise placement or adjustment: He fitted the picture into the frame.

14.	to provide; furnish; equip: to fit a door with a new handle.

–verb (used without object)

15.	to be suitable or proper.

16.	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.

–noun

17.	the manner in which a thing fits: The fit was perfect.

18.	something that fits: The coat is a poor fit.

19.	the process of fitting.

—Verb phrase

20.	fit out or up, to furnish with supplies, equipment, clothing, furniture, or other requisites; supply; equip: to fit out an expedition.

—Idioms

21.	fit to be tied, Informal. extremely annoyed or angry: He was fit to be tied when I told him I'd wrecked the car.

22.	fit to kill, Informal. to the limit; exceedingly: She was dressed up fit to kill.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME fitten; akin to MD vitten to befit

]

—Related forms

fit·ta·ble, adjective

—Synonyms 1. suitable, apt, corresponding, meet, applicable, apropos. 2. fitting, befitting. 5. healthy, hale, hardy, strong, robust.

—Usage note Both fit and fitted are standard as past tense and past participle of fit¹: The new door fit (or fitted) the old frame perfectly. The suit had fitted (or fit) well last year. Fitted is somewhat more common than fit in the sense “to adjust, make conform”: The tailor fitted the suit with a minimum of fuss. In the passive voice, fitted is the more common past participle: The door was fitted with a new handle.

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fit¹ Audio Help   (fĭt) Pronunciation Key
v.   fit·ted or fit, fit·ted, fit·ting, fits

v.   tr.

1. To be the proper size and shape for: These shoes fit me.
2. To cause to be the proper size and shape: The tailor fitted the trousers by shortening them.
3. To measure for proper size: She fitted me for a new jacket.
To be appropriate to; suit: music that fits your mood.
To be in conformity or agreement with: observations that fit the theory nicely.
To make suitable; adapt: fitted the shelves for large books. See Synonyms at adapt.
To make ready; prepare: Specialized training fitted her for the job.
To equip; outfit: fit out a ship.
To provide a place or time for: You can't fit any more toys in the box. The doctor can fit you in today.
To insert or adjust so as to be properly in place: fit a handle on a door.

v. intr.

To be the proper size and shape.
To be suited; belong: doesn't fit in with these people.
To be in harmony; agree: His good mood fit in with the joyful occasion.

adj. fit·ter, fit·test

Suited, adapted, or acceptable for a given circumstance or purpose: not a fit time for flippancy.
Appropriate; proper: Do as you see fit.
Physically sound; healthy: keeps fit with diet and exercise.
Biology Successfully adapted to survive and produce viable offspring in a particular environment.

The state, quality, or way of being fitted: the proper fit of means to ends.
The manner in which clothing fits: a jacket with a tight fit.
The degree of precision with which surfaces are adjusted or adapted to each other in a machine or collection of parts.

[Middle English fitten, to be suitable, marshal troops.]

fit'ly adv., fit'ter n.

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fitter
adjective
1.	improved in health or physical condition
noun
1.	someone who fits a garment to a particular person

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ˈfitter noun

a person who puts the parts of a machine together

Arabic:	مُرَكِّب الأجْهِزَه
Chinese (Simplified):	装配工
Chinese (Traditional):	裝配工
Czech:	montér
Danish:	montør
Dutch:	monteur
Estonian:	monteerija
Finnish:	asentaja
French:	monteur, *-euse
German:	der Monteur
Greek:	συναρμολογητής
Hungarian:	szerelő
Icelandic:	samsetningarmaður
Indonesian:	montir
Italian:	montatore

Japanese:	組立て工
Korean:	조립공
Latvian:	montieris
Lithuanian:	šaltkalvis, monteris, surinkėjas
Norwegian:	montør, mekaniker
Polish:	monter
Portuguese (Brazil):	montador
Portuguese (Portugal):	montador
Romanian:	instalator
Russian:	монтёр-механик
Slovak:	montér, -ka
Slovenian:	monter
Spanish:	montador
Swedish:	montör
Turkish:	makina parçalarını birleştiren kimse, montör

See also: fitting, fit, fit in, fit out, fitness, see/think fit

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Fitter

Fit\, a. [Compar. Fitter; superl. Fittest.] [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat, elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten to suit, square, Goth. f?tjan to adorn. ? 77.]

1. Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. --Shak.

Fit audience find, though few. --Milton.

2. Prepared; ready. [Obs.]

So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel. --Fairfax.

3. Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.

Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked? --Job xxxiv. 18.

Syn: Suitable; proper; appropriate; meet; becoming; expedient; congruous; correspondent; apposite; apt; adapted; prepared; qualified; competent; adequate.

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Fitter

Fit"ter\, n. 1. One who fits or makes to fit; esp.: (a) One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress. (b) One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.

2. A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper. [Eng.] --Simmonds.

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