Definitions for kitkɪt

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

kitkɪt(n.; v.)kit•ted, kit•ting.

(n.)a set of tools, supplies, or materials for a specific purpose:
a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
a case or container for these.
a set of materials or parts from which something can be assembled:
a model airplane kit.
Chiefly Brit. gear:
battle kit.
Category: British
(v.t.)Chiefly Brit. to outfit or equip (often fol. by out or up).
Category: British

Idioms for kit:

the whole kit and caboodle,all the persons or things concerned.
Category: Idiom, Informal

Origin of kit:

1325–75; ME kyt, kitt < MD kitte jug, tankard

kitkɪt(n.)

a small violin or rebec, used by dancing masters in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Category: Music and Dance

Origin of kit:

1510–20; orig. uncert.

kitkɪt(n.)

a young fox, beaver, or other small furbearing animal.
Category: Zoology
a kitten.

Origin of kit:

1555–65; shortened form

Princeton's WordNet

kit(noun)
a case for containing a set of articles
kit, outfit(noun)
gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose
kit(verb)
young of any of various fur-bearing animals
"a fox kit"
kit out, kit up, kit(verb)
supply with a set of articles or tools

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

kit(noun)ɪt
a set of equipment
a repair kit
kitɪt
a set of pieces that you join together to make sth
a model car kit
kitɪt
a set of clothing worn for a sport
my football kit

Wiktionary

Kit(ProperNoun)
A diminutive of the male given name Christopher.
Kit(ProperNoun)
A diminutive of Katherine and related female given names.

Origin: English from the 14th century, from a Dutch kitte, a wooden vessel made of hooped staves. Related to Dutch kit "tankard". The further etymology is unknown.

Webster Dictionary

Kit(verb)
to cut
Kit(noun)
a kitten
Kit(noun)
a small violin
Kit(u)
a large bottle
Kit(u)
a wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel
Kit(u)
straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket
Kit(u)
a box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like
Kit(u)
a group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them

The New Hacker's Dictionary

kit
[Usenet; poss.: fr.: DEC slang for a full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade] A source software distribution that has been packaged in such a way that it can (theoretically) be unpacked and installed according to a series of steps using only standard Unix tools, and entirely documented by some reasonable chain of references from the top-level README file. The more general term distribution may imply that special tools or more stringent conditions on the host environment are required.