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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A set of articles or implements used for a specific purpose: a survival kit; a shaving kit.
  2. n. A container for such a set.
  3. n. A set of parts or materials to be assembled: a model airplane kit.
  4. n. A packaged set of related materials: a sales kit.
  5. n. A collection of clothing and other personal effects used for travel.
  6. n. A container, such as a bag, valise, or knapsack, for storing or holding such a collection.
  7. idiom. the (whole) kit and caboodle Informal The entire collection or lot.
  8. n. A kitten.
  9. n. A young, often undersized fur-bearing animal.
  10. n. A tiny, narrow violin used by dancing masters in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A pail, small tub, box, or chest containing or for holding particular commodities or articles: as, a kit of mackerel; a kit of tools.
  2. n. Hence An outfit of necessaries for a trade or occupation, or for some special purpose: as, a traveler's or an angler's kit. A mechanic's kit comprises the tools required for his work; a soldier's or sailor's kit, such personal necessaries as he has to provide at his own cost.
  3. n. A basket; especially, a straw or rush basket.
  4. n. In photography, a flat rectangular frame fitted into a plate-holder to enable it to carry a plate smaller than the size for which it is made.
  5. To pack in kits for market: as, kitted mackerel, as distinguished from barreled mackerel.
  6. n. A dialectal and Middle English variant, of cut.
  7. n. A family; a brood.
  8. n. A kitten.
  9. n. A light woman.
  10. n. A miniature violin, about sixteen inches long, having three strings. It was once much used by dancing-masters, because it was small enough to be carried iu the pocket, whence its French name pochette.
  11. n. A kind of cement.
  12. n. A fish, the smear-dab.
  13. n. An English fanciers' term for a small flock of pigeons, particularly tumblers.
  14. n. A bag or basket woven of native flax, used by the Maoris.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves
  2. n. A kind of basket made from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish, by extension also the contents of such a basket, used as a measure of weight
  3. n. a collection of articles forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack
  4. n. any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling
  5. n. a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble
  6. n. clothing.
  7. n. A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
  8. n. kitten
  9. n. kit fox
  10. n. a kit violin
  11. n. a school of pigeons, especially domesticated, trained pigeons
  12. n. whale (Cetacea).
  13. v. To assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases.
  14. adj. Something which came originally in kit form.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To cut.
  2. n. A kitten.
  3. n. A small violin.
  4. n. A large bottle.
  5. n. A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom.
  6. n. A straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.
  7. n. A box for working implements.
  8. n. A collection of tools or other objects to be used for a specific purpose, often contained in a box which may be carried conveniently; a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.
  9. n. A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. young of any of various fur-bearing animals
  2. n. a case for containing a set of articles
  3. v. supply with a set of articles or tools
  4. n. gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose

Etymologies

  1. Middle English kitte, wooden tub, probably from Middle Dutch.Short for kitten.Origin unknown.

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  • rocktopus i second the preference for kit the verb. Feb 12, 2009

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