fit (original) (raw)
fit verb (CORRECT SIZE)
I want to put this box under the bed, but it won't fit.
fit in My car's too big to fit in this space.
fit someone/something in something I'd love to come, if you can fit another passenger in your car.
fit someone/something into something We can't fit that sofa into our living room.
fit someone/something on something I can't buy any more books — I can't fit them on the shelf.
Maybe you could fit those suitcases under the bed?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
fit verb (PUT IN POSITION)
fit someone with something She's been fitted with an artificial leg.
fit verb (ILLNESS)
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Phrasal verbs
fit adjective (SUITABLE)
be in no fit state to do something
fit adjective (ATTRACTIVE)
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fit noun (ILLNESS)
fit noun (SHORT PERIOD)
in a fit of She hit him in a fit of anger.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
fit noun (CORRECT SIZE)
the way that something fits:
fit noun (SET OF CLOTHES)
I posted today's fit on my Insta.
Idioms
(Definition of fit from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
fit | American Dictionary
fit verb (CORRECT SIZE)
fit verb (SUIT)
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Phrasal verbs
fit adjective [-er/-est only] (HEALTHY)
fit adjective [-er/-est only] (SUIT)
fit noun (BRIEF PERIOD)
fit noun (EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE)
fit noun (CORRECT SIZE)
Idioms
(Definition of fit from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
fit | Business English
Her new role fits her well.
if two or more things fit, or if one thing fits with another, they suit each other well:
[ T ] mainly UK
to make someone or something suitable for something:
Phrasal verbs
the way in which two or more things suit each other or work together:
fit for human consumption
(Definition of fit from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of fit
fit
Researchers could be misled by the publications of the first category because they were usually censored by the government to fit its propaganda purposes.
However, many of the interesting problems of generalization in psychological science do not fit this mold.
His central support also recovered, aided by the party's need to have some provincial governments fit for display.
Different personality styles and psychological needs will fit best with each of the models.
It seems on the face of it rather unlikely, but all of the known examples do fit into this framework.
Unlike a nephrology consult, successful ethical practice does not easily fit in the consultative paradigm: it requires more than a 15-minute discussion.
Virtually anything can fit these broad categories of definition, with the effect that the defining criterion is no criterion at all.
We have formulated a constrained optimization problem to determine the least squares fit of a hyperplane to uncertain data.
Is his omission due to the fact that the classical approach to visual imagery would not easily fit the model?
We then performed a discriminant analysis on the result that provided the best fit.
We found that for both red and green center cells the data could be perfectly fitted by either mixed or pure surrounds.
The following algorithms are used to attempt to fit the two possible primitives to the data points.
However, the precision of estimation was reduced for models fitted at the youngest ages, reflecting the lower accumulative rates of parenthood in the teenage years.
Results of the model indicate a reasonable fit of the model to the data.
The goodness of fit in all specifications is reasonable and the null hypotheses of no misspecification and homoscedasticity are not rejected either.
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