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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024kit1 /kɪt/USA pronunciation n., v., kit•ted, kit•ting. n. - a set of tools, supplies, or materials used for a specific purpose:[countable]a first-aid kit.
- [countable] a case or container for these.
- a set of materials or parts from which something can be assembled:[countable]a model airplane kit.
- British Terms[Chiefly Brit.]gear:[uncountable]battle kit.
v. - British Terms kit out, [no object][Chiefly Brit.]to outfit or equip.
Idioms- Idioms the whole kit and caboodle, all the persons or things concerned:bought the whole kit and caboodle for $500.
kit3 /kɪt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a kitten.
- Zoologya young fox, beaver, or other small animal that has fur.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024kit1 (kit),USA pronunciation n., v., kit•ted, kit•ting. n. - a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose:a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
- the case for containing these.
- such a case and its contents.
- a set of materials or parts from which something can be assembled:a model car made from a kit.
- Informal Termsa set, lot, or collection of things or persons.
- a wooden tub, pail, etc., usually circular.
- British Terms[Chiefly Brit.]a costume or outfit of clothing, esp. for a specific purpose:ski kit;dancing kit;battle kit.
- Informal Terms, Idioms kit and caboodle or boodle, the whole lot of persons or things;
all of something (often prec. by whole):We took along the whole kit and caboodle in the station wagon. v.t. - to package or make available in a kit:a new model airplane that has just been kitted for the hobbyist.
- British Terms[Chiefly Brit.]to outfit or equip (often fol. by out or up).
- Middle Dutch kitte jug, tankard
- Middle English kyt, kitt 1325–75
kit2 (kit),USA pronunciation n. - Music and Dancea violin or rebec small enough to be carried in the pocket, used by dancing masters in the 17th and 18th centuries. Also called pochette, sourdine.
- origin, originally uncertain 1510–20
kit3 (kit),USA pronunciation n. - kitten.
- Zoologya young fox, beaver, or other small furbearing animal.
Kit (kit),USA pronunciation n. - a male given name, form of Christopher.
- a female given name, form of Catherine or Katherine.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: kit /kɪt/ n - a set of tools, supplies, construction materials, etc, for use together or for a purpose: a first-aid kit, a model aircraft kit
- the case or container for such a set
- a set of pieces of equipment ready to be assembled
- clothing and other personal effects, esp those of a traveller or soldier: safari kit, battle kit
- informal clothing in general (esp in the phrase get one's kit off)
- NZ a flax basket
See also kit outEtymology: 14th Century: from Middle Dutch kitte tankard kit /kɪt/ n - NZ a plaited flax basket
Etymology: from Māori kete |