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kit1 /kɪt /noun1A set of articles or equipment needed for a specific purpose: a first-aid kit...- The task team said there was no basic medical emergency equipment such as a first-aid kit or oxygen.
- In the first-aid kit there is also a guide on using basic tools and equipment in emergency situations.
- Aid began pouring in yesterday, with the Red Cross sending 400 first-aid kits to the affected area.
1.1A set of articles forming part of a soldier’s equipment.First, they are heavy, and adding them to a soldier's kit that already includes ammunitions, rations, and other heavy items may be undesirable....- Of course the kit was clean: soldiers spend hours cleaning their equipment.
- It is light enough that each man in a patrol can carry several Claymores along with his regular kit, weapon and ammo.
1.2A set of all the parts needed to assemble something: an aircraft kit...- The association is also urging the FAA to allow imported aircraft kits to be put together without requiring a production certificate.
- Sixty workers from Lucent Technology in Westlea spent the afternoon assembling the bike kits before handing them over to their new owners.
- Right now, he has some 1,000 kits waiting to be assembled.
Synonyms set of parts, set of components, set, outfit, DIY kit, do-it-yourself kit, self-assembly set, flat-pack 2British The clothing used for an activity such as a sport: a football kit...- Shirt Amnesty is a scheme designed by BBC Radio Five Live and the Football Association to put those old football shirts and kits to use.
- Participants should bring a packed lunch, football kit (boots and shin-pads), warm clothes and a waterproof.
- Thompson decided not to wear his blazer and tie and instead donned his gym kit.
Synonyms clothes, clothing, rig, outfit, dress, costume, garments, attire, garb; uniform, colours, regimentals, livery, trappings; British strip informal togs, garms, things, gear, get-up, stuff, duds British informal rig-out formal apparel literary raiment, array, habiliments 3British A large basket, box, or other container, especially for fish. verb [with object] ( kit someone/thing out/up) chiefly BritishProvide someone or something with the appropriate clothing or equipment: we were all kitted out in life jackets...- The Home Office said two schools, two hospitals and an ambulance station would be kitted out with the new equipment to give better security for staff, patients and pupils.
- To date, some 175 classrooms have been kitted out with the equipment.
- To carry out the hugely complex job of managing over 400,000 transatlantic crossings every year, the air traffic control centre in Shannon has been kitted out with state-of-the-art equipment.
Synonyms equip, fit, fit out, fit up, fix up, furnish, stock, supply, provide, provision, issue; outfit, get up, rig out, turn out, dress, clothe, array, costume, attire, accoutre, deck out; arm Phrases Origin Middle English: from Middle Dutch kitte 'wooden vessel', of unknown origin. The original sense 'wooden tub' was later applied to other containers; the use denoting a soldier's equipment (late 18th century) probably arose from the idea of a set of articles packed in a container. If you were told in the Middle Ages to get your kit off it would be a wooden tub you removed, not your clothes. Kit comes from Dutch kitte, meaning ‘wooden vessel’, later applied to other containers. Its use for a soldier's equipment, dating from the late 18th century, probably comes from the idea of a set of such articles packed in one container. See also caboodle
Rhymes acquit, admit, backlit, bedsit, befit, bit, Brit, Britt, chit, commit, demit, dit, emit, fit, flit, frit, git, grit, hit, intermit, it, knit, legit, lickety-split, lit, manumit, mishit, mitt, nit, omit, outsit, outwit, permit, pit, Pitt, pretermit, quit, remit, retrofit, sit, skit, slit, snit, spit, split, sprit, squit, submit, transmit, twit, whit, wit, writ, zit kit2 /kɪt /noun1The young of certain animals, such as the beaver, ferret, and mink.Since 1997, 110 black-footed ferret kits have been released on the site....- Mink kits remain in the same cage as their mothers until weaned at the age of seven to eight weeks.
- The usual family group consists of the adults, the kits, and the yearlings of the previous year.
1.1 informal A kitten.I've watched mother cats nip their kits for playing too rough. kit3 /kɪt /noun historicalA small violin, especially one used by a dancing master.Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Origin Early 16th century: perhaps from Latin cithara (see cittern). kit4 /kɪt /noun rareA flock of pigeons: he saw a kit of pigeons flying when out one day...- I watched my big kit of pigeons fly over in a constantly changing formation.
- Doc was letting out a kit of pigeons.
- I knew they had seen a kit of pigeons over the town eight miles away.
Origin Late 19th century: apparently from German Kitte or Kütte 'flock or group of doves'. |