different between fitting vs apposite

English

Alternative forms

• (ready): fittin', fittin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t??

Verb

fitting

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

   I'm fitting to go home and sleep.

Synonyms

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

Adjective

fitting (comparative more fitting, superlative most fitting)

1. Ready, appropriate, suitable, or in keeping

Translations

Noun

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, 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.

Derived terms

• fitting-out
• fitting room (noun)

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin appositus, past participle of adponere, from ad- + ponere (“to put, place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a.p?.z?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ.p?.z?t/, IPA^(key): /??p?z?t/

Adjective

apposite (comparative more apposite, superlative most apposite)

1. Strikingly appropriate or relevant; well suited to the circumstance or in relation to something.
   • c. 1833–1856, Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol, in Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 2/3,

     Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation; [...].

   • 1919, H. L. Mencken, The American Language: An inquiry into the development of English in the United States, Chapter 15: The Expanding Vocabulary,

     Rough-neck is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English navvy, and it is over-whelmingly more American.
2. Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
   • 1971, University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Volume 34, page 262,

     In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.

3. Related, homologous.
   • 2000, David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles, in Pericles: Critical Essays,

     If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.

Synonyms

• (appropriate or relevant): to the point; See also Thesaurus:pertinent
• (positioned at rest in respect to another):
• (related): See also Thesaurus:connected

Related terms

• appositely
• appositeness
• apposition

Translations

Noun

apposite (plural apposites)

1. (rare) That which is apposite; something suitable.

See also

• opposite

References

Italian

Adjective

apposite

1. feminine plural of apposito

Latin

Participle

apposite

1. vocative masculine singular of appositus

References

• apposite in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apposite in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers