(n.) In Old English, a song; a strain; a canto or portion of a ballad; a passus.
(superl.) Adapted to an end, object, or design; suitable by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy.
(superl.) Prepared; ready.
(superl.) Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper.
(v. t.) To make fit or suitable; to adapt to the purpose intended; to qualify; to put into a condition of readiness or preparation.
(v. t.) To bring to a required form and size; to shape aright; to adapt to a model; to adjust; -- said especially of the work of a carpenter, machinist, tailor, etc.
(v. t.) To supply with something that is suitable or fit, or that is shaped and adjusted to the use required.
(v. t.) To be suitable to; to answer the requirements of; to be correctly shaped and adjusted to; as, if the coat fits you, put it on.
(v. i.) To be proper or becoming.
(v. i.) To be adjusted to a particular shape or size; to suit; to be adapted; as, his coat fits very well.
(n.) The quality of being fit; adjustment; adaptedness; as of dress to the person of the wearer.
(n.) The coincidence of parts that come in contact.
(n.) The part of an object upon which anything fits tightly.
(n.) A stroke or blow.
(n.) A sudden and violent attack of a disorder; a stroke of disease, as of epilepsy or apoplexy, which produces convulsions or unconsciousness; a convulsion; a paroxysm; hence, a period of exacerbation of a disease; in general, an attack of disease; as, a fit of sickness.
(n.) A mood of any kind which masters or possesses one for a time; a temporary, absorbing affection; a paroxysm; as, a fit melancholy, of passion, or of laughter.
(n.) A passing humor; a caprice; a sudden and unusual effort, activity, or motion, followed by relaxation or insction; an impulse and irregular action.
(n.) A darting point; a sudden emission.
Example Sentences:
(1) Multiple stored energy levels were randomly tested and the percent successful defibrillation was plotted against the stored energy, and the raw data were fit by logistic regression.
(2) After a period on fat-rich diet the patient's physical fitness was increased and the recovery period after the acute load was shorter.
(3) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
(4) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
(5) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
(6) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
(7) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(8) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(9) The kinetic properties of the cell-free extracts fit mathematical models developed for in vitro systems reconstituted from purified enzymes.
(10) After using the OK method to obtain a distance curve for height, we introduce a new method (VADK) to derive velocity and acceleration curves from the fitted distance curve.
(11) Higuaín was not fully fit which, with Rodrigo Palacio out with a calf injury, perhaps in part explained why Alejandro Sabella had made the change.
(12) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(13) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
(14) The contra-indications for them are: 1. a better visual acuity with spectacles than with contact lenses, 2. advanced cases (4th degree of Amsler) whose fitting is impossible, 3. unilateral keratoconus, 4. associated diseases such as trachomatous pannus, allergic kerato-conjunctivitis.
(15) The 'intermediate' (tau 1) and 'slow' (tau 2) components were seen by curve fitting M-current deactivation currents.
(16) A physiologically based model, comprising the reservoir, liver blood and tissue, and bile, was fitted to reservoir concentrations of 3H-oxazepam and 3H-oxazepam glucuronides, and the cumulative amount excreted into bile.
(17) Although distributed models yielded improved fits of the data, the distributed and lumped models produced similar estimates of membrane parameters.
(18) "Their prioritising of pensioner spending over unemployment benefits fits with a picture seen across this generational work: they care about groups they see as being in genuine need and they put particular emphasis on helping those who have contributed."
(19) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(20) In this paper, we develop functions suggested by and regression fit to crystallographic data which allow three of these torsion angles, alpha (O3'-P-O5'-C5'), delta (C5'-C4'-C3'-O3') and epsilon (C4'-C3'-O3'-P), to be calculated as dependent variables of those remaining.
Frisk
Definition:
(a.) Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky.
(a.) A frolic; a fit of wanton gayety; a gambol: a little playful skip or leap.
(v. i.) To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety.
Example Sentences:
(1) This will be one city, where everyone’s rights are respected, and where police and community stand together to confront violence.” New York City judge Shira Scheindlin ruled stop-and-frisk to be unconstitutional in August 2013.
(2) A predominantly type-specific mu-capture radioimmunoassay (RIA) of IgM antibodies to Coxsackie B1-B5 (CB1-CB5) viruses was previously described (Frisk et al., 1984).
(3) In April 2008, overzealous Heathrow security officials frisked Shenouda while on his way to consecrating St George's Coptic Cathedral , Shephalbury Manor, Stevenage.
(4) She called for an "immediate" change to the policy, and the appointment of an independent monitor to ensure that the NYPD carries out stop-and-frisks in accordance with the US constitution.
(5) A video of his arrest captured by a nearby security camera and published by the local TV channel ABC 7 shows the police initially frisking him, then handcuffing him and finally piling on top of Hernandez as he lay on the sidewalk while apparently hitting him with batons.
(6) The structural racism people of color experience isn’t harming police – unless they’re people of color, off duty, and subjected to stop and frisk by their fellow officers.
(7) For a middle class Indian babu to be frisked is unimaginable.
(8) I suppose I am less visibly attached to my children in a sense because they have your surname – maybe there is a tiny fear that it may cause problems some day – being frisked at border controls or something.
(9) We believe that both the murder of another unarmed black youth and the building of a new jail which will primarily house black people are state violence, a term which encompasses both immediate acts of violence by the state (like stop and frisks, or police shootings) and “slower” forms of violence that the state sanctions, condones or enables (like poverty, segregation, surveillance, militarization and incarceration).
(10) The case – Floyd v City of New York – was the result of 14 years of litigation against the stop and frisk policy.
(11) Stop-and-frisk violated an individual's right to protection under the fourth and 14th amendments of the constitution, Scheindlin concluded.
(12) A New York judge ruled Monday that stop-and-frisk searches carried out by city police are unconstitutional – and ordered that a federal monitor be brought in to oversee their reform.
(13) The videos, says Jennifer Carnig, a spokeswoman for the NYCLU, provided an unprecedented insight into discriminatory policing under stop and frisk: verbal and physical abuse, heavy-handed searches and the drawing of weapons on people who appear to be unarmed.
(14) Bloomberg, a staunch advocate of stop-and-frisk throughout his 12 years as New York City’s mayor, had asked the second circuit court for a stay on the ruling and the remedy measures.
(15) The heart of the reform ordered after we won the stop-and-frisk case is a joint remedial process that brings community members and other stakeholders together to discuss and hammer out the actual law enforcement and accountability reforms.
(16) Trump insisted: “I also explained last night stop and frisk was constitutional.
(17) Bloomberg's policing strategies also proved controversial, especially over the last few years, as the NYPD's stop-and-frisk programme came under increased scrutiny.
(18) I’ve lived here for 20 years and I lost count of the number of times I was stopped and frisked by the police by the time I was in high school,” said Nate Jeffrey, 32, a mechanic with the city’s transit authority.
(19) We know that police stopped and frisked New Yorkers more than 4m times in a decade , most of them black and Latino, 90% of them, according to the NYPD’s own figures , innocent of any crime.
(20) He said New York City’s law department and plaintiffs in two stop-and-frisk legal cases against the city had agreed that they would recommend to the district court that the monitor supervision will have oversight for three years.