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FITTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fitting mean?
• FITTING (noun)
The noun FITTING has 4 senses:
1. making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
2. a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system
3. (usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
4. putting clothes on to see whether they fit
Familiarity information: FITTING used as a noun is uncommon.
• FITTING (adjective)
The adjective FITTING has 2 senses:
1. in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion
2. being precisely fitting and right
Familiarity information: FITTING used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
accommodation; adjustment; fitting
Hypernyms ("fitting" is a kind of...):
advance; betterment; improvement (a change for the better; progress in development)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fitting"):
readjustment (the act of adjusting again (to changed circumstances))
domestication (accommodation to domestic life)
habituation (a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions)
shakedown (initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state)
Derivation:
fit (make fit)
fit (make correspond or harmonize)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small and often standardized accessory to a larger system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fitting" is a kind of...):
accessory; add-on; appurtenance; supplement (a supplementary component that improves capability)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fitting"):
gas fitting (the fitting (pipes or valves or meters) that convey gas from the gas main to the gas fixtures of a building)
pipe fitting; pipefitting (fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together)
receptacle (an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(usually in the plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
appointment; fitting
Hypernyms ("fitting" is a kind of...):
furnishing ((usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Derivation:
fit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Putting clothes on to see whether they fit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("fitting" is a kind of...):
run; test; trial (the act of testing something)
Derivation:
fit (be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion
Synonyms:
decent; fitting
Context example:
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this
Similar:
proper (marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness)
Derivation:
fittingness (the quality of being suitable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Being precisely fitting and right
Synonyms:
fitting; meet
Context example:
it is only meet that she should be seated first
Similar:
just (used especially of what is legally or ethically right or proper or fitting)
Derivation:
fittingness (the quality of being suitable)
Context examples
Hear my tale; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
A shallow dish with a loose-fitting cover.
(Petri Dish, Food and Drug Administration)
It was part of the fittings of the professor’s own desk.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Come,” said Mr. Utterson, “that is not fitting language.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He loosened his long-bow, slung his quiver round to the front, and then glanced keenly round for a fitting mark.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her lines and fittings—though I know nothing about such things—speak for themselves.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Ability to achieve reasonable accuracy and precision in determining a particular parameter when fitting a mathematical model to data.
(Mathematic Identifiability, NCI Thesaurus)
A valve that incorporates a Luer fitting.
(Luer Valve Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
A benign fibrous hyperplasia in the oral mucosa caused by the prolonged wear of ill-fitting denture.
(Denture-Induced Fibrous Hyperplasia, NCI Thesaurus)
A tight-fitting, elastic garment, such as a sleeve or stocking.
(Compression garment, NCI Dictionary)
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