fit

Meanings

Adjective

• Suitable, proper.
• Adapted to a purpose or environment.
• In good shape; physically well.
• Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.
• Prepared; ready.

Verb

• To be suitable for.
• To conform to in size and shape.
• To be of the right size and shape
• To make conform in size and shape.
• To be in agreement with.
• To adjust.
• To attach, especially when requiring exact positioning or sizing.
• To equip or supply.
• To make ready.
• To be seemly.
• To be proper or becoming.
• To be in harmony.
• To suffer a fit.
• Fought.

Noun

• The degree to which something fits.
• Conformity of elements one to another.
• The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
• Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
• Goodness of fit.
• The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump.
• A section of a poem or ballad.
• A seizure or convulsion.
• A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
• A sudden outburst of emotion.
• A sudden burst (of an activity).

Origin

• Possibly from Middle English fit ("an adversary of equal power").
• Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt ("song"), or from the sense of fitted to length.
• Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt ("conflict").
• Probably cognate with Italian fitta ("pain, especially sudden and stabbing pain").
• See more at Latin figere.