kit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). The further etymology is unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Germanic *kitjō-, *kut-, which would be related to the root of Dutch kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.
The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century.
The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in American English in the mid 20th century.
Inflected forms:
form: kits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A kind of basket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was pushing a barrow on the fish dock, wheeling aluminium kits which, when full, each contain 10 stone of fish.
gloss: A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Dudes! You simply have too much stuff in your kit! But don't sweat it, I can buy some stuff you don't need.
gloss: Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Always carry a good first-aid kit.
gloss: A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I built the entire car from a kit.
gloss: The standard set of clothing, accessories and equipment worn by players.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward.
gloss: Clothing.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Get your kit off and come to bed.
The Argentina fan who risked jail by getting her kit off at the World Cup final has broken her silence by posting more topless videos.
gloss: A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A drum kit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The whole set; kit and caboodle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Do you know the proportion between ten and twelve or thirteen? — No; I should suppose you may take the whole kit of them as thirty; and the rest are people at from twenty to forty years of age.
gloss: To assemble or collect something into kits.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We need to kit the parts for the assembly by Friday, so that manufacturing can build the tool.
gloss: To equip (somebody) with something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: beard kit
dancing master's kit
devkit
dop kit
dopp kit
Dopp kit
first-aid kit
get one's kit off
hush kit
identikit
kikay kit
kill kit
kit and caboodle
kit and kaboodle
kitbag
kit bag
kitbash
kit car
kit-cat
kit gun
kit-kat
kit lens
kitless
kit man
kitome
kit out
kitset
kitter
kittle
kit-violin
media kit
medikit
medkit
mess kit
minikit
non-WebKit
press kit
rape kit
rape test kit
rekit
root kit
rootkit
sea rescue kit
sewing kit
spill kit
survival kit
take one's kit off
toiletry kit
tool kit
toolkit
washkit
WebKit
whole kit and caboodle
whole kit and kaboodle
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: екип
roman: ekip
lang: Czech
word: dres
lang: Danish
word: dragt
lang: Finnish
word: peliasu
lang: Hungarian
word: szerelés
lang: Hungarian
word: öltözék
lang: Hungarian
word: mez
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: drakt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: drakt