kit

• IPA^(key): /kɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

English from the 14th century, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit "tankard". The further etymology is unknown.

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 US English in the mid 20th century.

kit (plural kits)

1. A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
2. 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.
   • 1961 18 Jan, Guardian (cited after OED):

   He was pushing a barrow on the fish dock, wheeling aluminium kits which, when full, each contain 10 stone of fish.

3. A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack.
4. Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.

   Always carry a good first-aid kit.

5. A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.

   I built the entire car from a kit.

6. (Britain, sports) The standard set of clothing, accessories and equipment worn by players.
   • 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph‎:

     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.

7. (Britain, informal) Clothing.

   Get your kit off and come to bed.

8. (computing, informal) A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
9. (music) A drum kit.

• kit and caboodle
• kit car
• kit out

kit (third-person singular simple present kits, present participle kitting, simple past and past participle kitted)

1. (transitive) To assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases.

   We need to kit the parts for the assembly by Friday, so that manufacturing can build the tool.

A short form of kitten. From the 16th century (spelled kytte, kitt). From the 19th century also extended to other young animals (mink, fox, muskrat, etc.), and to a species of small fox ("kit-fox").

kit (plural kits)

1. A kitten (young cat).
2. A kit fox.

16th century, perhaps from cithara.

kit (plural kits)

1. Synonym of kit violin
   • Grew

     A dancing master's kit.

   • Charles Dickens, Bleak House

     Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance.

Borrowed from German kitte, kütte (circa 1880).

kit (plural kits)

1. A school of pigeons, especially domesticated, trained pigeons.

• ITK, ikt, tik

From Russian кит (kit).

kit

1. whale (Cetacea)

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From German Kitt (“putty”).

kit n (singular definite kittet, not used in plural form)

1. putty

From English kit (1980).

kit n (singular definite kittet, plural indefinite kit or kits)

1. kit

• Rhymes: -ɪt

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kit f (plural kitten, diminutive kitje n)

1. metal can, used mainly for coal

• kolenkit

Borrowed from German Kitt.

kit f or n (uncountable)

1. sealant

• kitten

Borrowed from English kit.

kit m (plural kits, diminutive kitje n)

1. set of tools

• tik

ki +‎ -t

• IPA^(key): [ˈkit]
• Hyphenation: kit

kit

1. accusative singular of ki

   Kit ajánl? ― Whom would you recommend?

   Kit érdekel? ― Who cares?

kit

1. buttocks

   kit tɔm : mouth of the river (literally: buttocks [of the] river)

• Niclas Burenhult, A grammar of Jahai (2005)

kít (plural kít)

1. chair

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /kʲit/

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kit m inan

1. putty
2. (slang) lie

• kit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from English kit.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈkit͡ʃ/
  • Homophone: kitsch

kit m (plural kits)

1. kit (collection of items needed for a specific purpose)
2. kit (collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble)

• (collection of items for a specific purpose): jogo

• kit gay

From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

kȉt m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏т)

1. whale

• pliskavica (special type of a whale)

From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkíːt/
• Tonal orthography: kȋt

kít m anim (genitive kíta, nominative plural kíti, feminine kítovka)

1. whale

From German Kitt (“putty”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkíːt/
• Tonal orthography: kȋt

kít m inan (genitive kíta, nominative plural kíti)

1. putty

kit m (plural kits)

1. kit

kit

1. putty

Borrowed from Russian кит (kit), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

kit (definite accusative kidi, plural kitler)

1. whale