Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“fits” is a form of

fit

/fɪt/ adjective, verb, noun

Also a form of fight

Forms fitter fittest fits fitting fitted

  1. adjective Suitable; proper “You have nothing to say about it. I'll do exactly as I see fit.”
  2. adjective Adapted to a purpose or environment. “survival of the fittest”
  3. adjective In good shape; physically well. “You don't have to be a good climber for Kilimanjaro, but you do have to be fit.”
  4. adjective (UK, informal, chiefly slang) Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable. “I think the girl working in the office is fit.”
  5. adjective (obsolete) Prepared; ready.
  6. verb (transitive) To be suitable for. “It fits the purpose.”
  7. verb (ambitransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there. “Ten clowns fit in the car, but not a hundred.”
  8. verb (transitive) To conform to in size and shape. “The small shirt doesn't fit me, so I'll buy the medium size.”
  9. verb (intransitive) To be of the right size and shape “I wanted to borrow my little sister's jeans, but they didn't fit.”
  10. verb (transitive, with to) To make conform in size and shape. “I want to fit the drapes to the windows.”
  11. verb (transitive) To tailor; to change to the appropriate size. “I had a suit fitted by the tailor.”
  12. verb (transitive) To be in agreement with. “These definitions fit most of the usage.”
  13. verb (transitive) To adjust. “The regression program fit a line to the data.”
  14. noun The degree to which something fits. “This shirt is a bad fit.”
  15. noun Conformity of elements one to another. “It's hard to get a good fit using second-hand parts.”
  16. noun The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
  17. noun (advertising) Measure of how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand. “The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.”
  18. noun (statistics) Goodness of fit.
  19. noun (bridge) The quality of a partnership's combined holding of cards in a suit, particularly of trump. “During the auction, it is often a partnership's goal to find an eight-card major suit fit.”
  20. noun (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad.

Synonyms

sit fix to mesh spell moment flurry frenzy paroxysm tantrum scene conniption convulsion burst suit accommodate go meet conform to match correspond check jibe gibe tally agree equip fit out outfit primed set

Antonyms

unfit

Etymology

Possibly from Middle English fit (“an adversary of equal power”), of uncertain further origin. The original sense appears to have been "to marshal or deploy troops", which shifted to "to suit (troops to a certain location" > "suitable", and may be further related to Icelandic fitja (“to web, knit, cast on”).

Unknown, possibly from Old English fitt (“song”), or from the sense of fitted to length. Compare Old Saxon *fittea (attested in the borrowed Latin vittea).

Unknown. From Middle English fit (“hardship, danger”), possibly from Old English fitt (“conflict”)—a word only attested once. Compare Cornish fit (“game match, bout”); or else, maybe cognate with Italian fitta (“sudden and stabbing pain”) (see further at Latin fīgere).

Clipping of outfit.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus. [Written also fitte, fytte, etc.]
  2. adjective Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
  3. adjective Prepared; ready. [Obs.]
  4. verb To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation.

Etymology [AS. fitt a song.]

Etymology [OE. fit, fyt; cf. E. feat neat, elegant, well made, or icel. fitja to web, knit, OD. vitten to suit, square, Goth. f to adorn. 1. Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. Shak. Fit audience find, though few. Milton. 2. Prepared; ready. [Obs.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “fit”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

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