fitter

Pluralfitters

1. 1
   adjective

   Comparative of fit. Use this to compare how healthy or strong two people are.

   After a summer of cycling, he was fitter than his brother.

   She felt fitter once she started walking to work every day.

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2. 2
   nouncountable

   A worker who puts parts together or installs and adjusts equipment.

   Like the person who puts together the parts of a machine so it works.

   The fitter arrived to install the new boiler.

   Two fitters assembled the machine on the factory floor.

   Similarassembler, installer, mechanic

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3. 3
   nouncolloquialcountable

   A person who has epilepsy or suffers from seizures.

   The old ward records listed him as a fitter who needed constant watch.

   She feared her son was a fitter after his second seizure that week.

   Similarepileptic

4. 4
   nounhistoricalcountable

   A worker hired to choose music that played along with silent movies.

   Like a person who picks the right song to play during each part of a movie.

   The fitter chose a lively waltz for the chase scene.

   For the fitter of film music in the silent era visual reference was the surest indicator of content.

   2012, Stephen Neale, The Classical Hollywood ReaderHere, fitter means a person who chose the music to go with silent films.

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