CLOSE-FITTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does close-fitting mean? 

• CLOSE-FITTING (adjective)
  The adjective CLOSE-FITTING has 1 sense:

1. fitting closely but comfortably

  Familiarity information: CLOSE-FITTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLOSE-FITTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fitting closely but comfortably

Synonyms:

close; close-fitting; snug

Context example:

a close fit

Similar:

tight (closely constrained or constricted or constricting)

 Context examples 

One component of the BBB is close-fitting connections (called tight junctions) that form seals between the blood vessel’s endothelial cells.

(Brain tumor invasion along blood vessels may lead to new cancer treatments, NIH)

Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All Danes have short, thick, close-fitting hair.

(Great Dane, NCI Thesaurus)

The Boxer's body is compact and powerful with a close-fitting coat that comes in fawn, brindle, white and various shades of red, with white markings.

(Boxer, NCI Thesaurus)

Its hard, short-haired, close-fitting coat comes in black, black and tan, blue-gray, red, fawn and white.

(Doberman Pinscher, NCI Thesaurus)

The gentleman spoken of was a gentleman with a very unpromising squint, and a prominent chin, who had a tall white hat on with a narrow flat brim, and whose close-fitting drab trousers seemed to button all the way up outside his legs from his boots to his hips.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Wilson’s hands, which moved incessantly in and out, had been stained with some astringent juice with the purpose of preventing them from puffing, and so great was the contrast between them and his white forearms, that I imagined that he was wearing dark, close-fitting gloves until my uncle explained the matter in a whisper.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)