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kit

1

[ kit ]

noun

  1. a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose:

    a first-aid kit; a sales kit.

  2. the case for containing these.
  3. such a case and its contents.
  4. a set of materials or parts from which something can be assembled:

    a model car made from a kit.

  5. Informal. a set, lot, or collection of things or persons.
  6. a wooden tub, pail, etc., usually circular.
  7. Chiefly British. a costume or outfit of clothing, especially for a specific purpose:

    ski kit; dancing kit; battle kit.



verb (used with object)

, kit·ted, kit·ting.
  1. to package or make available in a kit:

    a new model airplane that has just been kitted for the hobbyist.

  2. Chiefly British. to outfit or equip (often followed by out or up ).

kit

2

[ kit ]

noun

  1. a violin or rebec small enough to be carried in the pocket, used by dancing masters in the 17th and 18th centuries.

kit

3

[ kit ]

noun

  1. a young fox, beaver, or other small furbearing animal.

Kit

4

[ kit ]

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Christopher.
  2. a female given name, form of Catherine or Katherine.

KIT

1

abbreviation for

  1. keep in touch
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kit

2

/ kɪt /

noun

  1. a plaited flax basket
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kit

3

/ kɪt /

noun

  1. a set of tools, supplies, construction materials, etc, for use together or for a purpose

    a first-aid kit

    a model aircraft kit

  2. the case or container for such a set
    1. a set of pieces of equipment ready to be assembled
    2. ( as modifier )

      kit furniture

    1. clothing and other personal effects, esp those of a traveller or soldier

      battle kit

      safari kit

    2. clothing in general (esp in the phrase get one's kit off )
  3. a flax basket
  4. the whole kit or the whole kit and caboodle informal.
    everything or everybody
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kit

4

/ kɪt /

noun

  1. a kind of small violin, now obsolete, used esp by dancing masters in the 17th–18th centuries
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kit

5

/ kɪt /

noun

  1. an informal or diminutive name for kitten
  2. a cub of various small mammals, such as the ferret or fox
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Word History and Origins

Origin of kit1

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English kit(te), kyt(t) “wooden bucket or tub,” from Middle Dutch kitte “jug, tankard”

Origin of kit2

First recorded in 1510–20; origin uncertain

Origin of kit3

First recorded in 1555–65; shortening of kitten ( def )
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Word History and Origins

Origin of kit1

from Māori kete

Origin of kit2

C14: from Middle Dutch kitte tankard

Origin of kit3

C16: of unknown origin

Origin of kit4

C16: by shortening
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. kit and caboodle / boodle, Informal. the whole lot of persons or things; all of something (often preceded by whole ):

    We took along the whole kit and caboodle in the station wagon.

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Example Sentences

This at-home blood test kit gives a full reading of antioxidant, fatty acid, or vitamin panels.

In most cases, no wants to talk about sexual assault, the rape-kit backlog, or the plight of victims and their families.

As the Hooters press kit shows, an appreciation for breasts does not automatically translate to an appreciation of women.

Natasha Alexenko is both a victim of rape and of a rape kit backlog.

Beyond a few large computer screens, chairs, a first aid kit, and a stack of water bottles is a small, metal holding cell.

As a matter of fact, much as I should like them, all these things mean so many pounds extra kit.

Afterwards I hurried to my billet and hastily packed up all my kit, and marched the regiment down to the trenches.

But, as squire of dames, Kit was too much occupied to give further heed to business in the sala.

He found her with bright eyes and a faint flush in her cheeks over the letter Kit was writing to the south.

But before Kit could answer Ramon Rotil stood in the door, and his eyes went to the papers on the table.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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