Kit
[kɪt]
Definition
(noun.) young of any of various fur-bearing animals; 'a fox kit'.
(noun.) gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.
(noun.) a case for containing a set of articles.
Inputed by Edna--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To cut.
(n.) A kitten.
(n.) A small violin.
(m.) A large bottle.
(m.) A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.
(m.) straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.
(m.) A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.
(m.) A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.
Checker: Trent
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Kid, small tub (as for pickled mackerel).[2]. Small pail.[3]. Outfit, working implements.[4]. Violin (small), fiddle.
Editor: Rudolf
Definition
n. a contraction of kitten.—n. Kit′-cat a game played with sticks and a small piece of wood called a cat.
n. a family in phrase 'the whole kit.'
n. a small wooden tub: the outfit of necessaries of a soldier sailor or mechanic.
Editor: Sonya
Examples
- I want to know how George Radfoot come by his death, and how you come by his kit? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He had a little fiddle, which we used to call at school a kit, under his left arm, and its little bow in the same hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Take off your kit and sit down. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Think of Kit Downes, uncle, who lives with his wife and seven children in a house with one sitting room and one bedroom hardly larger than this table! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A good tool-kit holds a number of files of various shapes. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It so happened that Beth's funny loan was just the thing, for in laughing over the kits, Laurie forgot his bashfulness, and grew sociable at once. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Edited by Constantine