fitter, healthier
(adjective) improved in health or physical condition
fitter
(noun) someone who fits a garment to a particular person
fit
(adjective) physically and mentally sound or healthy; “felt relaxed and fit after their holiday”; “keeps fit with diet and exercise”
fit
(adjective) meeting adequate standards for a purpose; “a fit subject for discussion”; “it is fit and proper that you be there”; “water fit to drink”; “fit for duty”; “do as you see fit to”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fitter
comparative form of fit
fitter (plural fitters)
A person who fits or assembles something.
(informal) An epileptic.
(UK, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
(film, historical) A person employed to find suitable music to accompany silent films.
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Source: Wiktionary
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.
Fit"ter, n.
Definition: A little piece; a flitter; a flinder. [Obs.] Where's the Frenchman Alas, he's all fitters. Beau. & Fl.
Fit,
Definition: imp. & p. p. of Fight. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Fit, n. Etym: [AS. fitt a song.]
Definition: In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus. [Written also fitte, fytte, etc.] To play some pleasant fit. Spenser.
Fit, a. [Compar. Fitter; superl. Fittest.] Etym: [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat, elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten to suit, square, Goth. f to adorn.
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.
Fit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fitting.]
1. To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation. The time is fitted for the duty. Burke. The very situation for which he was peculiarly fitted by nature. Macaulay.
2. To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc. The carpenter . . . marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes. Is. xliv. 13.
3. To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required. No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.
4. To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on. That's a bountiful answer that fits all questions. Shak. That time best fits the work. Shak. To fit out, to supply with necessaries or means; to furnish; to equip; as, to fit out a privateer.
– To fit up, to firnish with things suitable; to make proper for the reception or use of any person; to prepare; as, to fit up a room for a guest.
Fit, v. i.
1. To be proper or becoming. Nor fits it to prolong the feast. Pope.
2. To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.
Fit, n.
1. The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.
2. (Mach.) (a) The coincidence of parts that come in contact. (b) The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly. Fit rod (Shipbuilding), a gauge rod used to try the depth of a bolt hole in order to determine the length of the bolt required. Knight.
Fit, n. Etym: [AS. fit strife, fight; of uncertain origin. sq. root 77.]
1. A stroke or blow. [Obs. or R.] Curse on that cross, quoth then the Sarazin, That keeps thy body from the bitter fit. Spenser.
2. A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness. And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake. Shak.
3. A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter. All fits of pleasure we balanced by an equal degree of pain. Swift. The English, however, were on this subject prone to fits of jealously. Macaulay.
4. A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction; an impulse and irregular action. The fits of the season. Shak.
5. A darting point; a sudden emission. [R.] A tongue of light, a fit of flame. Coleridge. By fits, By fits and starts, by intervals of action and re
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 April 2024
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red – indicating ripeness – they are picked, processed, and dried. Dried coffee seeds are roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor.
