Word Definition

Fit

  1. A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.
  2. Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
  3. To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on.
  4. A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction; an impulse and irregular action.
  5. Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
  6. In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus.
  7. imp. & p. p. of Fight.
  8. Prepared; ready.
  9. To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required.
  10. The coincidence of parts that come in contact.
  11. To be proper or becoming.
  12. To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.
  13. A stroke or blow.
  14. To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation.
  15. The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
  16. The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.
  17. A darting point; a sudden emission.
  18. A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.
  19. To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.