FITS

"FITS" is a plural of: fit.

Date "FITS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Physics

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FITS

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Agitation

Turbulence, perturbation; commotion, turmoil, disquiet; tumult, tumultuation; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus.

Adverb: by fits and starts; subsultorily; Adjective: per saltum; hop skip and jump; in convulsions, in fits.

Agreement

Phrase: rem acu tetigisti; if the shoe fits, wear it; the cap fits; auxilia humilia firma consensus facit; discers concordia.

Caprice

Adverb: by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason.

Discontinuity

Adverb: at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts; skippingly, per saltum; longo intervallo.

Disorder

Adverb: irregularly; Adjective: by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down.

Haste

By fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump.

Irregularity of recurrence

Adverb: irregularly; Adjective: by fits and starts; (discontinuously).

Crosswords: FITS

I've already had someone created in my image. He's evil, he wants to take over the world, and he fits easily into most overhead storage bins (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; writing credit: Mike Myers)

If I may be so blunt, Miss Barbara this mask this suit no longer fits. (Birds of Prey; writing credit: Adam Armus; Nora Kay Foster)

The dress fits the occasion (Grace of My Heart; writing credit: Allison Anders)

This is it, one side fits all (Postcards from the Edge; writing credit: Carrie Fisher)

Now, let everyone out of here or your girlfriend fits in an ashtray (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

It fits so tight, closer than a glove (Valotte; performing artist: Julian Lennon)

Your heart fits me like a glove (True Blue; performing artist: Madonna)

And when the bombshell hits, I get epileptic fits (Draft Dodger Rag; performing artist: Phil Ochs)

Any man of mine'll say it fits just right (Any Man Of Mine; performing artist: Shania Twain)

You're the only shoe that fits (Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover; performing artist: Sophie B. Hawkins)

If the Crown Fits (1961)

Fits in a Fiddle (1933)

Wits and Fits (1917)

Giving Them Fits (1915)

Fits and Misfits (1910)

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Books

• Finding the Career That Fits You: The Companion Workbook to Your Career in Changing Times (reference)

• If the Shoe Fits (reference)

• If the Shoe Fits / Designs on Jake (Harlequin Duets 2-In-1 No 86) (reference)

• One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards (reference)

• Strange Fits of Passion (reference)

  (more book examples)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• One Size Fits All (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Olympus D-600L Uv Haze Filter For Camera Also Fits D-620L (reference)

• Kensington Contour Notebook Pad - Black Fits Most Notebooks & Carry Cases (reference)

• Fellowes Custom Mail Order Keyguard Keyboard Seal/Skin Fits Snugly (reference)

• Samsonite Corporation Business Dowel Briefcase Leathr 13X10.75X.3 Brown Fits Shuttle (reference)

• Diamond Mavica 2X Close Up Lens Fits FD81 FD71 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Cuisinart 1-1/2-Quart Additional Freezer Bowl, fits ICE-20 Ice Cream Maker (reference)

• KitchenAid KFP6EW Egg Whip Attachment, fits 11-Cup Processor (reference)

• Nesco American Harvest ER-3000 Expander Ring - Fits 1500/3000/3500 Series (reference)

• Cuisinart Copper Classic 8-Quart Stockpot with Lid (Double Boiler fits PCT19-18) (reference)

• Cuisinart 3-by-3mm Medium Square Julienne Disc, fits 7 and 11-Cup Processors (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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A worker fits the Alaskan Steep Pass into the notch in the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A contractor fits the ladder into the place where the dam was notched to hold the ladder in place. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An old idea, but it fits. Credit: Library of Congress.

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In fact, coughing fits interrupted Fantine at almost every word

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind

I trust that none will stretch the seams in putting on the coat, for it may do good service to him whom it fits.

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Health

AD fits into this latter group of diseases. (references)

The health care provider may recommend an oral appliance, also called a splint or bite plate, which is a plastic guard that fits over the upper or lower teeth. (references)

Addiction is characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and use, even in the face of negative health consequences, and tobacco use certainly fits the description. (references)

Business

The reader can thus quickly understand where China fits into the regional and global perspective. (references)

Thus, while the market is not easy, there are good possibilities overall to sell a product if it fits well in niche lines. (references)

Many companies are eager to implement an e-commerce solution, however industry analysts assert that they have not fully considered how e-commerce fits into their overall company strategy and further how to efficiently integrate it into their daily operations. (references)

Economic History

Pakistan

Since the late 1980s Pakistan has pursued in fits and starts a program of market-oriented economic adjustment. (references)

Zimbabwe

Government Economic Reform and Performance: The Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) has, even by its own standards and admission, proceeded slowly and in fits and starts on economic reform. (references)

Slovakia

While GDP growth rates and macroeconomic performance indicators rose steadily during this period, public and private debt and trade deficits soared, and privatization, often tarnished by corrupt insider deals, progressed only in fits and starts. (references)

Trade

Egypt

Customs procedures are subjective when it comes to identifying whether a commodity fits in one tariff category or another. (references)

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Expressions using "FITS": ad by fits and starts ♦ By fits ♦ by fits and starts ♦ episodic fits of depression ♦ in fits ♦ it fits him like a glove ♦ the cap fits ♦ the cap fits him ♦ work by fits and starts. Additional references.

Ending with "FITS": mini-fits, re-fits, snap-fits.

Containing "FITS": one-size-fits-all.

Albanian

në mënyrë të çrregullt (by fits and starts, fitfully, slovenly), me hope (by fits and starts, fitful, fitfully, patchy). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مناوبة (alternation, by fits and starts, relay, rotation, shift, turn of duty, watch), ‏على نحو متقطع (by fits and starts, off and on, on and off), ‏بالتناوب (alternately, by fits and starts, every other, intermittent, off and on). (various references)

Bulgarian 

неравномерно (by fits and starts), на пресекулки (by fits and starts, fitfully). (various references)

Chinese 

拟合 (FIT). (various references)

Czech

padne mu to jako ulité (it fits him like a glove), obèasné záchvaty deprese (episodic fits of depression), nesoustavnì (by fits and starts), nárazovì (by fits and starts, fitfully). (various references)

Danish

skrigekrampe (crying fits, screaming fits), hulbasissystem (basic hole system, hole basis, hole basis limit system, hole-basis system of fits, standard hole system). (various references)

Dutch

past. (various references)

Finnish

takki sopii hyvin (is an excellent fit, the coat fits well), sysäyksittäin (by fits and starts), sopii huonosti (. . is a bad fit, fits badly), reikäkantajärjestelmä (basic hole system, hole basis, hole basis limit system, hole-basis system of fits, standard hole system), puuskittain (at intervals, by fits and starts, in spells), puuskassa (at intervals, by fits and starts, in spells), nykien (by fits and starts), hetkittäin (at times, by fits and starts). (various references)

French

système de l'alésage normal (hole-basis system of fits), système d'ajustements à alésage normal (hole-basis system of fits), sans continuation (by fits and starts), par roulement (by fits and starts). (various references)

German

Art (behavior, behaviour, breed, category, description, fashion, form, grade, ilk, kind, manner, mode, nature, niceness, order, property, quality, sort, species, strain, style, type, variety, way). (various references)

Greek 

σύστημα συναρμογής με κανονικά λειασμένη οπή (basic hole system, hole basis, hole basis limit system, hole-basis system of fits, standard hole system), μου κάνει το φόρεμα (the dress fits me), μου κάνει (fit, it fits me). (various references)

Hebrew 

לסרוגין (alternately, by fits and starts, every other, fitful, in instalments, intermittently, off and on, on and off), לא בקביעות (by fits and starts). (various references)

Hungarian

tökéletesen illeszkedő darab (piece that fits dead square, piece that fits dead true). (various references)

Italian

spasmi striduli (crying fits, screaming fits), sistema foro base (basic hole system, hole basis, hole basis limit system, hole-basis system of fits, standard hole system). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

立て付け (way a door fits), バスに乗る (bask, basket, basketball, Basque, bass-treble, bastard fake bunt, bath buzzer, bath towel, bathrobe, bathroom, bathtub, birth control, bus lane, bus stop, bust, bust pad, bustline, bypass capacitor, the way a bra fits, to take the bus), フランス窓 (FC, flamberge, flannel, flick, franchise, franchise chain, freak, free, free agent, free dial, free kick, free sex, free skating, free talking, free tax, free throw, free time, free trade, free weights, freedom, freesia, free-software, freestyle, freeware, freeway, freeze, freeze-dry, freezer, French, French window, frieze, one size fits all, one whose livelihood is provided by part-time work, refrigerator, toll-free number, young people subsisting on part-time work). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たてつけ (way a door fits), バストフィット (the way a bra fits), フリーサイズ (one size fits all). (various references)

Korean 

적합 (Conformities, Conformity, FIT). (various references)

Manx

kinkyn, gaarlaghey, freggyrtagh (accountable, answerable, answerer, answering, answering letter, compatible, congruence, proportional, reactive, replicative, respondent, responsible). (various references)

Pig Latin

itsfay.(various references)

Portuguese

fica (it fits, stays, suits), sistema de ajuste de ferro-base (basic hole system, hole basis, hole basis limit system, hole-basis system of fits, standard hole system), espasmo estridente (crying fits, screaming fits). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

fica (it fits, it is located, stays, suits). (various references)

Romanian

se simţi cu musca pe cãciulã (the cap fits him), lucra inegal (work by fits and starts), cu întreruperi (by fits and starts, fitful, off and on). (various references)

Russian 

рывками (by fits and starts), неравномерно (by fits and starts). (various references)

Scottish

buaidheam (fits of inconstancy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

s vremena na vreme (fit: by fits and starts, now and then). (various references)

Spanish

queda (closing time, end of work, remains). (various references)

Swedish

passar (will do). (various references)

Turkish

gelişigüzel (at haphazard, at random, by chance, by fits and starts, casual, cursory, desultory, excursive, go-as-you-please, haphazard, helter-skelter, hit or miss, hit-and-miss, indiscriminate, promiscuous, random, scratch, scratchy), düzensiz surette (by fits and starts), düzensiz bir şekilde (by fits and starts). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "FITS": backfits, befits, benefits, comfits, confits, disbenefits, discomfits, haffits, misfits, nonprofits, outfits, profits, refits, reoutfits, retrofits, soffits, superprofits, unfits. (additional references)

Misspellings

"FITS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fatz, fayts, Fcit, fets, fetz, ffit, fics, fiets, fims, fios, fiots, fips, fis, fishs, fiss, Fita, fith, fiti, fito, Fitr, Fitst, fitta, fitu, fity, fiws, fixs, fotz, ftes, ftx, futts, fyta, fyte, fytz, ifst, Iftr, iftz, ofits, qfis. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: fist, sift.

-1 letter: fit, ifs, its, sit, tis.

-2 letters: if, is, it, si, ti.

+1 letter: feist, fiats, first, fists, flits, foist, frits, gifts, lifts, rifts, shift, sifts, stiff, swift, tiffs.

+2 letters: afrits, befits, clifts, drifts, faints, faiths, feints, feists, feisty, fetish, fiesta, fifths, fights, filets, filths, finest, firsts, firths, fisted, fistic, fliest, flints, flirts, flites, foists, fortis, friths, fritts, fruits, fustic, grifts, infest, itself, misfit, motifs, muftis, refits, resift, rifest, shifts, shifty, shrift, sifted, sifter, soffit, softie, stiffs, stifle, strife, swifts, tafias, unfits.