fitter

See also: Fitter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪtə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪtɚ/, [ˈfɪɾɚ]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English fit

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āsjos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English fitter

From fit (verb) + -er.

Noun

fitter (plural fitters)

1. A person who fits or assembles something.

   a fitter of clothing, or of machinery

   • 1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, pages 262, 264:

     But in the early days of the scheme the new machines created some problems for the fitters, who found them over-complex and their faults hard to diagnose after many years' experience of small, simple steam locomotives.

   • 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 8:

     "They have gone past their sell-by date. But the fitters have done an amazing job keeping these units running for as long as they have.

2. (informal) An epileptic.
3. (UK, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
4. (film, historical) A person employed to find suitable music to accompany silent films.
   • 2012, Stephen Neale, The Classical Hollywood Reader, page 268:

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

Derived terms

• carpet fitter
• gasfitter
• pipefitter
• pipe fitter
• shipfitter
• ship fitter
• shopfitter
• squipper
• steamfitter
• stove fitter
• upfitter

Translations

person who fits or assembles something

• Bulgarian: механик (bg) m (mehanik), монтьор (bg) (montjor)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鉗工 / 钳工 (zh) (qiángōng)

• Danish: montør c
• Finnish: asentaja (fi)
• French: ajusteur (fr) m, ajusteuse (fr) f
• Hungarian: szerelő (hu)
• Portuguese: instalador (pt) m, instaladora f
• Romanian: montator (ro) m, montatoare (ro) f, montor (ro) m (rare), montoare (ro) f (rare)
• Russian: монтёр (ru) m (montjór), сбо́рщик (ru) m (sbórščik), сбо́рщица (ru) f (sbórščica), слесарь (ru) m (slesarʹ)
• Swedish: montör (sv) c

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

English fit

English -er

English fitter

From fit (adjective) + -er.

Adjective

fitter

1. comparative form of fit: more fit

   An exercise bike won't make you fitter if you never find time to use it.

   My bird's loads fitter than yours.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     All stood together on the deck, / For a charnel-dungeon fitter: / All fixed on me their stony eyes, / That in the Moon did glitter.

Anagrams

• titfer

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

fitter

1. comparative degree of fit

Adjective

fitter

1. inflection of fit:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

fitter m or f

1. indefinite plural of fitte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

fitter f

1. indefinite plural of fitte