"fitter" meaning in English

See fitter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈfɪtə(ɹ)/ [UK], /ˈfɪtɚ/ [General-American], [ˈfɪɾɚ] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fitter.wav
Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ) Etymology: From fit (adjective) + -er. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|fit|er|id2=comparative|pos1=adjective}} fit (adjective) + -er Head templates: {{head|en|comparative adjective}} fitter
  1. comparative form of fit: more fit Tags: comparative, form-of Form of: fit (extra: more fit)
    Sense id: en-fitter-en-adj-UOyWNOsM Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -er (comparative) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (comparative): 29 10 3 23 35
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ˈfɪtə(ɹ)/ [UK], /ˈfɪtɚ/ [General-American], [ˈfɪɾɚ] [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-fitter.wav Forms: fitters [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ) Etymology: From fit (verb) + -er. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|fit|er|id2=agent noun|pos1=verb}} fit (verb) + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} fitter (plural fitters)
  1. A person who fits or assembles something. Translations (person who fits or assembles something): механик (mehanik) [masculine] (Bulgarian), монтьор (montjor) (Bulgarian), 鉗工 (Chinese Mandarin), 钳工 (qiángōng) (Chinese Mandarin), asentaja (Finnish), ajusteur [masculine] (French), ajusteuse [feminine] (French), szerelő (Hungarian), montator [masculine] (Romanian), montatoare [feminine] (Romanian), montor [masculine, rare] (Romanian), montoare [feminine, rare] (Romanian), монтёр (montjór) [masculine] (Russian), сбо́рщик (sbórščik) [masculine] (Russian), сбо́рщица (sbórščica) [feminine] (Russian), слесарь (slesarʹ) [masculine] (Russian), montör [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-fitter-en-noun-1pfZiygz Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -er (comparative) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (comparative): 29 10 3 23 35 Disambiguation of 'person who fits or assembles something': 72 5 7 16
  2. (informal) An epileptic. Tags: informal Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-fitter-en-noun-mE42bM0U Disambiguation of People: 4 16 47 33 1
  3. (UK, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper. Tags: UK, dated
    Sense id: en-fitter-en-noun-AZe8Yzs8 Categories (other): British English, English terms suffixed with -er (comparative), Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (comparative): 29 10 3 23 35 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 1 8 1 18 33 32 2 2 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 8 1 19 32 35 1 1 2
  4. (film, historical) A person employed to find suitable music to accompany silent films. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Film, Occupations
    Sense id: en-fitter-en-noun-YFfPyBlz Disambiguation of Occupations: 2 19 19 24 36 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun), English terms suffixed with -er (comparative), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 16 2 34 47 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun): 13 3 31 53 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er (comparative): 29 10 3 23 35 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 2 29 55 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 1 8 1 18 33 32 2 2 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 8 1 19 32 35 1 1 2 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 12 11 29 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 13 12 30 46 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 14 2 25 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 22 11 25 42 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 11 4 35 49 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 13 12 30 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 14 2 25 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 12 11 30 47 Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: carpet fitter, gasfitter, pipe fitter, ship fitter, stove fitter, upfitter
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

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          "text": "a fitter of clothing, or of machinery",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1962 October, M. J. Wilson, “Three years of dieselisation at Devons Road depot”, in Modern Railways, pages 262, 264:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line bids farewell to 1930s \"icon of transport\"...”, in Rail, page 8:",
          "text": "\"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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person who fits or assembles something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fit",
          "fit"
        ],
        [
          "assemble",
          "assemble"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An epileptic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "epileptic",
          "epileptic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) An epileptic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English dated terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "coal",
          "coal"
        ],
        [
          "broker",
          "broker"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(UK, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "UK",
        "dated"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Film"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012, Stephen Neale, The Classical Hollywood Reader, page 268:",
          "text": "For the fitter of film music in the silent era visual reference was the surest indicator of content.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A person employed to find suitable music to accompany silent films."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "film",
          "film#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "music",
          "music"
        ],
        [
          "accompany",
          "accompany"
        ],
        [
          "silent film",
          "silent film"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(film, historical) A person employed to find suitable music to accompany silent films."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "broadcasting",
        "film",
        "media",
        "television"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪtə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪtɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɪɾɚ]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "rhymes": "-ɪtə(ɹ)"
    }
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mehanik",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "механик"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "montjor",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "word": "монтьор"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "word": "鉗工"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qiángōng",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "word": "钳工"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "word": "asentaja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ajusteur"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ajusteuse"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "word": "szerelő"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "montator"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "montatoare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "montor"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "montoare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "montjór",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "монтёр"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sbórščik",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "сбо́рщик"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sbórščica",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "сбо́рщица"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "slesarʹ",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "слесарь"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person who fits or assembles something",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "montör"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fitter"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms suffixed with -er (comparative)",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪtə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/ɪtə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
    "en:Occupations",
    "en:People"
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "fit",
        "3": "er",
        "id2": "comparative",
        "pos1": "adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "fit (adjective) + -er",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
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      },
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        "English comparative adjectives",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "An exercise bike won't make you fitter if you never find time to use it.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "My bird's loads fitter than yours.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:",
          "text": "All stood together on the deck, / For a charnel-dungeon fitter: / All fixed on me their stony eyes, / That in the Moon did glitter.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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          "extra": "more fit",
          "word": "fit"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comparative form of fit: more fit"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fit",
          "fit#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪtə(ɹ)/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfɪtɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈfɪɾɚ]",
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        "General-American"
      ]
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    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪtə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fitter"
}

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