(n.) One who tries on, and adjusts, articles of dress.
(n.) One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.
(n.) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
(n.) A little piece; a flitter; a flinder.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicate, that the transgenic yeast strain behaves like wild-type strains and the plasmid-free laboratory strain and has no properties which would make it fitter under environmental conditions, which are inappropriate for baker yeast.
(2) The proportion of patients was high among the adjusting fitters aged 30-39 years (40.4%) and founders (36.3%).
(3) Hall, the son of a fitter in an engineering plant, left school at 14 and ambitiously tried his hand at journalism.
(4) Jonas Bröcke, a 20-year-old heating fitter, thinks Germany can afford the bailouts but has a problem with countries that have not dealt properly with their economies.
(5) We need to get the new signings fitter and get others back, so this is an opportunity to get organised.
(6) Though 56, her work in the fields means she is fitter than most women half her age.
(7) The ease of insertion without a plunger and gloves (inserter tube diameter 3 mm) and the ease of removal (force of traction approximately 1 N) mean safety also for the medical and paramedical fitter of the CU SAFE 300 IUD.
(8) Younger, fitter people can help our hardworking NHS doctors and nurses by only attending if it’s absolutely necessary.” The number of attendances of children at A&E with psychiatric conditions is up 8% to 18,673 in 2014-15, compared with 17,278 last year.
(9) I feel lighter, fitter, more open, less chained to my phone.
(10) Pierre Fitter in Delhi When the news broke that Yvo de Boer was standing down from his post at the head of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change, India was the first country to offer up a candidate for the role.
(11) From early on, it is obvious that Sedbergh has the edge – they are bigger, fitter and more skilled to a boy – but sensible refereeing makes it a more even contest.
(12) These baselines were found to be poorly replicated the fitters.
(13) Hence, males aged 20-29 years working at the foundry and automatic-assembly plants and adjusting fitters and founders aged 30-39 years can be considered as a peculiar risk group of tuberculosis.
(14) "I will never be able to be back to being the sprinter that I used to be," says the former schoolboy athlete ruefully, "but I want to be fitter.
(15) Fitters' negative attitudes toward reconstruction mammaplasty are also presented.
(16) I think they’ve lost touch,” said Michael, 47, a window fitter from Kirkburton.
(17) Inevitably, companies will seek to make themselves leaner and fitter in the coming years.
(18) We will be better for it and more prepared for this final.” Lallana has looked sharper and fitter in Klopp’s team than during his difficult debut season under Brendan Rodgers but says that is merely a reflection of the manager’s gameplan: “I have been as fit as this before.
(19) On the other hand, the fitter subjects related their subjective health to the more conventional activity indicators; frequency of working, sexual activity and exercise.
(20) It is important, he said, that the patient should make the decision that is right for him or her, weighing up the benefits of the drugs against the side-effects and also considering the other option – to get fitter and healthier.
Hitter
Definition:
(n.) One who hits or strikes; as, a hard hitter.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s not just about the many gems he pitched, including a no-hitter in 2008 .
(2) When it comes to Justin Verlander I sometimes put out a no-hitter alert before first pitch.
(3) Yadier Molina singled with one out in the bottom of the ninth, followed by pinch-hitter Craig who hit a double off Koji Uehara's first pitch down the left-field line that put runners on second and third.
(4) Dodgers manager Don Mattingly has gotten a lot of heat after that extra inning loss, both for not bringing his closer in earlier (not that it would have mattered considering how little the Dodgers did offensively in extra innings) and for pinch-running his clean-up hitter Adrian Gonzalez late in regulation and replacing his bat in the line-up with that of washed up veteran Michael Young.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 10.11pm BST Cardinals 2 - Pirates 0, top of the 8th Justin Wilson strikes out Matt Adams and now here's when things really starting to get interesting as Wacha is six outs away from a postseason no-hitter.
(6) 1.23am GMT Red Sox 0 - Cardinals 1, top of the 4th Dustin Pedroia, quiet most of this postseason, is up to salvage anything here, it seems improbable that these Sox hitters can be rendered mute by Lance freaking Lynn, but so it goes.
(7) Many who instinctively preferred King came to see him as the only heavy hitter capable of deposing Johnson (even King herself admits that, as time passed, Livingstone grew stronger).
(8) No reputable scientists have managed to establish the link Wakefield hypothesised existed, and heavy hitters like the Medical Research Council and Health Protection Agency have consistently stated that no supporting evidence exists.
(9) News Corp itself seems to be most anxious about the FCPA side of the federal investigations, judging from the legal team it has assembled – some of the heaviest hitters in American legal affairs.
(10) Games 1, 2 and (if necessary) 6 and 7 will be played here, which means American League rules will be in affect, which means that Designated Hitters will be allowed to bat in place of pitchers.
(11) David Ortiz would have to return from an injury-ended lost season to once again be one of the most feared hitters on the planet.
(12) Target Field, a $545m limestone-encased jewel that opened in 2010, produced an All-Star cycle just eight batters in, with hitters showing off flashy neon-bright spikes and fielders wearing All-Star caps with special designs for the first time.
(13) 3.39am GMT Giants 2 - Tigers 0, postgame Ryan Vogelsong, Tim Lincecum and Sergio Romo - Detroit hitters have no answer to the trio despite boasting two of the most prolific hitters in all of baseball, and a capable lineup that was shut out just twice all season long.
(14) We have an opportunity to identify the new big hitters for the 21st century, and local government.
(15) DH: Always seemed unfair when the NL teams seldom have a useful hitter compared to the AL teams often best hitter.
(16) No hitters are supposed to be hard to get, that's the reason they're impressive.
(17) Updated at 1.32am BST 1.31am BST Tigers 0 - Red Sox 0, bottom of the 1st Max Scherzer gets Jacoby Ellsbury looking to start of the first, ah so already the Sox hitters are picking up where they left off against Scherzer in game two.
(18) The next year, after reading The Techniques of Modern Hitting , by Wade Boggs, he became the best hitter on his team.
(19) Cardinals 2 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 6th Michael Wacha walks Russell Martin and there's the first Pirates baserunner, so there's no perfect game but there's still a no-hitter in process.
(20) Still very much in recovery, the programme does not attract the heavy hitters it once did, nor the million-plus audiences it had when Davis was its economics editor a decade and a half ago.