fitting

• (ready): fittin', fittin

• IPA^(key): /fɪtɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪtɪŋ

fitting

1. present participle of fit
2. (informal, US, with infinitive) Getting ready; preparing.

   I'm fitting to go home and sleep.

   • 1846, Lyndall Gordon, quoting Emily Dickinson, letter, quoted in 'Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds', published 2010:

     'I am fitting to go to South Hadley Seminary [as Mount Holyoke was known], and expect if my health is good to enter that institution a year from next fall', she confided to Abiah.

• (ready): fixing to (see also going to)

fitting (comparative more fitting, superlative most fitting)

1. Ready, appropriate, or in keeping
   • 2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport:

     It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.

   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The Onion AV Club:

     And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.”

fitting (countable and uncountable, plural fittings)

1. A small part, especially a standardized or detachable part of a device or machine.
2. (engineering) A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling
3. The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
4. (manufacturing) The process of fitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
5. (chiefly Britain) A domestic moveable piece of furniture, which can be taken along when moving out, US furnishing (see also fixture).

   the fittings of a church or study

6. (uncountable) The action or condition of having fits in the sense of seizures or convulsions.

   Since her medication was changed, her fitting has got worse.

• fitting room (noun)