fitting

Etymology

verb

1. present participle and gerund of fit
2. (informal, US, with infinitive) Getting ready; preparing.
   I'm fitting to go home and sleep.
   '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. 1846, Lyndall Gordon, quoting Emily Dickinson, letter, quoted in Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, published 2010

adj

1. Ready, appropriate, suitable, or in keeping
   The last regular steam-hauled passenger train between Glasgow and Helensburgh Central was given a fitting send-off from Queen Street Low Level at 11.2 p.m. on Friday, November 4. 1960 December, “The Glasgow Suburban Electrification is opened”, in Trains Illustrated, page 712
   It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner. December 10, 2011, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1-0 Everton”, in BBC Sport
   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.” 26 June 2012, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-08-06
   The L&YR built a small number of these trains, known as 'Rail Motors', for rural branch lines. It was only fitting that the Horwich branch should have its own. March 8 2023, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54

noun

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, often plural) A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; US furnishing; compare 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.