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fit

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1. verb To identify, accuse, or convict (someone) as the perpetrator of a crime, especially falsely or fraudulently. Primarily heard in Australia. I'm telling you, I didn't take that money! Someone's fitting me! The gangster maintains that he had been fitted up by police, claiming that they had planted the evidence used against him in court. Check the surveillance video! You can't fit me for a robbery when I wasn't even there!
2. adjective Appealing or attractive, often sexually. Primarily heard in UK. If you think she's fit, why don't you just ask her out? A: "That fit guy from the second floor talked to me today, and I was practically drooling over him the whole time." B: "Well, duh! He's gorgeous!" Wow, Janet's friend is fit! I wonder if she's single?
3. noun An outfit. How's this fit for my first day of school? A: "What do you think?" B: "That's a fire fit. I don't even want to go out with you because no one will be looking at me!" A: "Mom, I like your fit!" B: "Wow! Does that make me cool?" A: "Uh, no, but can I borrow it sometime?"
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I like to see that you know your manners; and you are by no means such a person as the general thought fit to describe you.
This evening I renewed the medicine, which I had supposed did me good the day before - the tobacco steeped in rum; only I did not take so much as before, nor did I chew any of the leaf, or hold my head over the smoke; however, I was not so well the next day, which was the first of July, as I hoped I should have been; for I had a little spice of the cold fit, but it was not much.
- I missed the fit for good and all, though I did not recover my full strength for some weeks after.
From the 4th of July to the 14th I was chiefly employed in walking about with my gun in my hand, a little and a little at a time, as a man that was gathering up his strength after a fit of sickness; for it is hardly to be imagined how low I was, and to what weakness I was reduced.
And I repeat to you again, if it was a fit thing to be proud, I might claim the honour of having infused that idea."--
This indicates that Model 2 better fits the data than Model 1.
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Properly fit, a quality aftermarket barrel can considerably improve precision, with less slop and eccentric wear.
(26) Decentred lenses are often associated with looser fits and it has been suggested the dryness may be due to the decentred lens aggravating the upper eyelid margin exacerbating lid wiper epitheliopathy; this has important implications for lens fitting as it appears the balance between providing enough lens movement to facilitate tear exchange and excess movement causing discomfort and possible patient drop out is a fine one.
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