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Fitted vs Handly - What's the difference?

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Fitted is a related term of handly.


As adjectives the difference between fitted and handly

is that fitted is incorporating all of the fittings into connected units while handly is of or pertaining to the hand; manual.

As a verb fitted

is (fit) (to tailor, change size).

fitted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fit) (to tailor, change size)
  • (to tailor, change size)

    • Derived terms

    * retro-fitted * fitted cap

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Incorporating all of the fittings into connected units.

    • handly

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
  • * 1921 , Peter George Mode, Source book and bibliographical guide for American church history :
    • George W. Greene's " Short History of Rhode Island" (1877) is a handly manual but nothing more.
  • * 1971 , World justice: Volume 12:
    • [...] Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris published a handly manual in off -set intitled Bibliography — International Migration of Manpower (1).
  • * 2009 , Philip Durkin, The Oxford guide to etymology :
    • The word handly has no asterisk because it is in fact recorded several times in Middle English, and with precisely the meaning 'manual'.
  • Handy; manageable.
  • * 1859 , The Spectator: Volume 32:
    • The Practical Guide for Italy, comprising the North and Central portions of the Peninsula has just been issued, and fully sustains the established character of the series. It is accompanied with a handly little map illustrative of the war.