FIT OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fit out mean? 

• FIT OUT (verb)
  The verb FIT OUT has 2 senses:

1. provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose

2. provide with clothes or put clothes on

  Familiarity information: FIT OUT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIT OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

equip; fit; fit out; outfit

Context example:

The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities

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

furnish; provide; render; supply (give something useful or necessary to)

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

kit; kit out; kit up (supply with a set of articles or tools)

appoint (furnish)

re-equip; rejig (re-equip a factory or plant)

refit (fit out again)

armor; armour (equip with armor)

accouter; accoutre (provide with military equipment)

wire (provide with electrical circuits)

shaft (equip with a shaft)

spar (furnish with spars)

stave (furnish with staves)

adorn; clothe; invest (furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors)

commission (put into commission; equip for service; of ships)

muzzle (fit with a muzzle)

instrument (equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling)

turn out (outfit or equip, as with accessories)

horseshoe (equip (a horse) with a horseshoe or horseshoes)

stock (equip with a stock)

motorize (equip with a motor vehicle)

motorize (equip with a motor)

fin (equip (a car) with fins)

spur (equip with spurs)

collar (furnish with a collar)

fuse (equip with a fuse; provide with a fuse)

mechanise; mechanize; motorise; motorize (equip with armed and armored motor vehicles)

rig; set; set up (equip with sails or masts)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with clothes or put clothes on

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog

Context example:

Parents must feed and dress their child

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

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

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

cover; wrap up (clothe, as if for protection from the elements)

prim; prim out; prim up (dress primly)

gown (dress in a gown)

robe; vest (clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes)

costume; dress up (dress in a costume)

coat (cover or provide with a coat)

shoe (furnish with shoes)

corset (dress with a corset)

overclothe; overdress (dress too warmly)

vesture (provide or cover with a cloak)

habit (put a habit on)

shirt (put a shirt on)

frock (put a frock on)

jacket (put a jacket on)

underdress (dress without sufficient warmth)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

In it Sir Claude Latour, the Gascon lieutenant of the White Company, assured him that there remained in his keeping enough to fit out a hundred archers and twenty men-at-arms, which, joined to the three hundred veteran companions already in France, would make a force which any leader might be proud to command.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It will amount to this: If we have the clue you talk about, I fit out a ship in Bristol dock, and take you and Hawkins here along, and I'll have that treasure if I search a year.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)