kit
Forms
- Plural
- kits
- present (v1)
- kit
- past (v2)
- kitted
- past participle (v3)
- kitted
- present participle
- kitting
- 3rd person singular
- kits
Definitions
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.
- 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.
- Dudes! You simply have too much stuff in your kit! But don't sweat it, I can buy some stuff you don't need.
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.
1.To equip (somebody) with something.
2.To assemble or collect something into kits.
- We need to kit the parts for the assembly by Friday, so that manufacturing can build the tool.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3870
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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.