FIT IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fit in mean? 

• FIT IN (verb)
  The verb FIT IN has 1 sense:

1. go together

  Familiarity information: FIT IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIT IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go together

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

accord; agree; concord; consort; fit in; harmonise; harmonize

Context example:

Their ideas concorded

Hypernyms (to "fit in" is one way to...):

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Verb group:

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fit in"):

coordinate (be co-ordinated)

blend; blend in; go (blend or harmonize)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP

 Context examples 

You might be able to fit in a romantic trip to a warm and sunny spot because Mars, your guardian planet, will be in exquisite harmony with the full moon.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In general, only specific fragments will bind to particular proteins – in the same way that only a specific key will fit in a particular lock.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)

The SSRIs also fit in a second site on the protein, called an “allosteric” site, which affects how quickly molecules can get out of the central pocket.

(Serotonin transporter structure revealed, NIH)

Rather, as there was something abnormal and misbegotten in the very essence of the creature that now faced me—something seizing, surprising and revolting—this fresh disparity seemed but to fit in with and to reinforce it; so that to my interest in the man’s nature and character, there was added a curiosity as to his origin, his life, his fortune and status in the world.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The doctor most kindly took charge of me, and it was well he did so, for I had a fit in the station, and before we reached home I was practically a raving maniac.

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