What's the difference between figment and fitment?
Figment
Definition:
(n.) An invention; a fiction; something feigned or imagined.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can imagine how frustrating this is for teenagers like myself who make a point of being politically engaged, only to find that our interest is seen as a figment of someone’s imagination.
(2) With no Hull player, let alone the official body that monitors the suspension bridge, remotely aware of such an incident, The Observer put it to Brown that the apparently suicidal female was a figment of his imagination.
(3) Any shift the public may detect in immigration proposals advanced by Donald Trump is a figment of the imagination, top Trump surrogates said in a coordinated maneuver on Sunday.
(4) He wanted so much to convince his mates that he really had spied a miracle and to make sure that his normally placid mind had not fallen victim of some strange figment of the imagination, a confidence trick, a sudden mirage brought on by the unrelenting rays of the sun.'
(5) Earlier, on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, John Redwood, the former cabinet minister, described claims by Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler that up to eight Tories were about to defect as "a figment of Ukip's imagination", as party chiefs sought to calm the party's nerves.
(6) Show us another player who has radiated as much influence as Eric Cantona and we will show you a figment of your imagination.
(7) Many tabloid newspapers have joined in, giving the impression that rape is simply a figment of mad women's imaginations.
(8) It makes this image even more of a figment of my imagination.
(9) The lengthy scenes of flatly described sex, commonly with two women at once, read like pornographic figments.
(10) Redwood dismissed the possibility of eight defectors when he told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: "The so-called eight are a figment of Ukip's imagination.
(11) Yes, although in this case, I’ve made clever use of ambiguity, because “selfie teeth” are often a figment of your imagination.
(12) But he described the idea of welfare tourism as a "figment of some politician's imagination" because Poles in Britain worked and sent back earnings that have been taxed.
(13) March of the makers remains a figment of Osborne's imagination Read more “A lot of this is driven by the ongoing weakness of global commodity prices.
(14) A claim by Ukip that eight more MPs are thinking of defecting to the party has been dismissed as a figment of the party's imagination by John Redwood, a former Tory cabinet minister and leading Eurosceptic.
(15) Figments of imagination and previous experiences enter into each clinic room emotional situation, and the apprehensions of the child, the parent and the doctor must be anticipated and acknowledged.
(16) Such an investigation would indeed be odious, but it's a figment of Boal's imagination.
(17) It can no longer be rubbished as some spurious subjective figment of the victim’s “paranoid” imagination, which sadly is an attitude that extends far beyond actual abusers.
(18) We aim this useful figment at an (equally hypothetical) photosynthetic system all of whose units are set up to perform the same primary reaction.
(19) She is an outsider, a "difficult" woman whose old comrades from the communist party still smart from her brisk re-evaluation of the movement as a figment of their own "mass psychopathology".
(20) As for the march of the makers, that remains a figment of the chancellor’s imagination.
Fitment
Definition:
(n.) The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Laser diathermy was performed using an arthroscopic fitment to a CO2 laser.
(2) I have no idea how much she spends in Tesco, or whether there is any onyx in her home fitments.
(3) As time went on, he replaced ceilings and skirting boards, and electric and heating fitments.
(4) A simple, cheap and reliable method of perfusion-fixation of hearts is described using readily available domestic water fitments and a pump specifically designed for continuous pumping of corrosive fluids.