2022-03-25
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – F – fit & suit
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Dictionary.com:
ออกเสียง fit = “FIT”
ออกเสียง suit “SOOT”
Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary:
Originally a “bill” was any piece of writing,
especially a legal document
(we still speak of bills being introduced into Congress in this sense).
More narrowly, it alsocame to mean a list
such as a restaurant “bill of fare” (menu)
or an advertisement listing attractions in a theatrical variety show
such as might be posted on a “billboard.”
In nineteenth-century America,
when producers found short acts
to supplement the main attractions,
nicely filling out an evening’s entertainment,
they were said in a rhyming phrase to “fill the bill.”
People who associate bills principally with shipping invoices
frequently transform this expression,
meaning “to meet requirements or desires,”
into “fit the bill.”
They are thinking of bills as if they were orders,
lists of requirements.
It is both more logical and more traditional
to say “fill the bill.”
Dictionary.com:
USAGE NOTE FOR FIT
Both fit and fitted are standard
as past tense and past participle of fit1:
The new door fit (or fitted ) the old frame perfectly.
The suit had fitted (or fit ) well last year.
Fitted is somewhat more common than fit
in the sense “to adjust, make conform”:
The tailor fitted the suit with a minimum of fuss.
In the passive voice, fitted is the more common past participle:
The door was fitted with a new handle.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary:
fit′ly, adv.
fit′ta•ble, adj.
fit′ter, n.
usage:
Both fit and fitted are standard as
past tense and past participle of fit:
The new door fit (or fitted) the old frame perfectly.
The suit had fitted (or fit) well last year.
fitted is somewhat more common than fit in the sense
“to adjust, make conform”:
The tailor fitted the suit with a minimum of fuss.
In the passive voice, fitted is the more common past participle:
The door was fitted with a new handle.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Choose the Right Synonym for fit
Adjective
Fit, Suitable, Meet, Proper, Appropriate, Fitting, Apt, Happy, Felicitous
mean right with respect to some end, need, use, or circumstance.
Fit stresses adaptability and sometimesspecial readiness for use or action.
fit for battle
Suitable implies an answering to requirements or demands.
clothes suitable for camping
Meet suggests a just proportioning.
meet payment
Proper suggests a suitability through essential nature or accordance with custom.
proper acknowledgement
Appropriate implies eminent or distinctive fitness.
an appropriate gift
Fitting implies harmony of mood or tone.
a fitting end
Apt connotes a fitness marked by nicety and discrimination.
apt quotations
Happy suggests what is effectively or successfully appropriate.
a happy choice of words
Felicitous suggests an aptness that is opportune, telling, or graceful.
a felicitous phrase
Collins COBUID English Dictionary:
suit & suite
1. 'suit'
Suit (/suːt/) can be a verb or a noun.
If something suits you, it is convenient, acceptable,
or appropriate for you.
Would Monday suit you?
A job where I was indoors all day wouldn't suit me.
A suit is a set of clothes made from the same material.
He arrived at the office in a suit and tie.
2. 'suite'
Suite (/swiːt/) is a noun.
A suite is a set of rooms in a hotel.
They always stayed in a suite at the Ritz.
A suite is also a set of matching furniture for a sitting room or bathroom.
I need a three-piece suite for the lounge.
Collins COBUID English Dictionary:
Fit & suit
1. 'fit'
If clothes fit you, they are the right size, neither too big nor too small.
That dress fits you perfectly.
He was wearing pyjamas which did not fit him.
In British English, the past tense form of fit is fitted.
In American English, the past tense form is fit.
The boots fitted him snugly.
The pants fit him well and were very comfortable.
2. 'suit'
If clothes make you look attractive,
don't say that they 'fit' you.
You say that they suit you.
You look great in that dress, it really suits you.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Word History
Following 'Suit' from the Court to the Closet
A tale of love, law, clothing, and cards
What to Know
Suit comes from the Latin for "to follow or pursue"
and was first used to describe
the attendance of tenants at their lords' courts.
Later, the pursuit of justice also came to be known as a suit,
as were the matching clothes tenants wore at court were called suits.
Soon after, suit began to refer to any matching set,
such as with playing cards.
Suit has a suite (and, yes, that word is related)
of diverse meanings in law, fashion, romance,
and card playing that are actually cut from the same cloth.
The word ultimately derives, via Anglo-French suite,
from Vulgar Latin sequitus, meaning "to follow."
And exactly how did sequitus become suite in French, you might ask?
The medieval Latin equivalent of suit (in some senses) was secta,
meaning "sect" or "set,"
and the French made it their own, initially forming seuta or suita.
Early Uses of 'Suit'
Before suit came to refer to a legal action,
it had various senses in Middle English
referring to acts of following or pursuing,
literally and figuratively.
Early uses of suit refer to
the required attendance by a tenant at his lord's court
as well asto a company of followers in general.
Legal Uses of 'Suit'
Senses of the wordreferring to the pursuit of justice
were developed in the 14th century,
when a tenant had toappeal to a superior for justice.
The exact evolution of the legal sense is unclear,
but it may have been influenced
by the obligation of a tenant
to be in suit (in attendance) at the court of a lord.
Nowadays, legal suit refers to a complainant's attempt
to redress a wrong or to enforce or protect a right or claim.
'Suit' and Clothing and Cards
The "clothing" sense of suit is also connected to the feudal court.
Those in suit at the court of a lord often matched in attire.
That led to the word being applied to
boy's matching outer garments in the 15th century.
Over time, that sense was adapted to other articles of matching clothing.
Today, we have an array of suits,
including the bathing suit, the bodysuit,
the business suit, the catsuit, the jumpsuit,
the leisure suit, the lounge suit, the pantsuit,
the sailor suit, the shell suit, the snowsuit, the space suit,
the sweat suit, the swimsuit, the three-piece suit,
the trouser suit, the two-piece suit, the union suit,
the wet suit, and the zoot suit.
From the "clothing" sense, suit began being
used for sets of other matching objects,
including the suits of spades, clubs, hearts, and diamonds
in a deck of cards—and even hair.
