(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.
Nitter
Definition:
(n.) The horselouse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.