kit

UK: 'kit', 'Kit': /ˈkɪt/ US: /kɪt/ ,(kit)

Inflections of 'kit' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

kits

v 3rd person singular

kitting

v pres p

kitted

v past

kitted

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

kit¹ /kɪt/   n., v., kit•ted, kit•ting. 
n. 

1. a set of tools, supplies, or materials used for a specific purpose:
   [countable] a first-aid kit.
2. [countable] a case or container for these.
3. a set of materials or parts from which something can be assembled:
   [countable] a model airplane kit.
4. British Terms [Chiefly Brit.] gear:
   [uncountable] battle kit.

v. 

5. British Terms kit out, [no object] [Chiefly Brit.] to outfit or equip.

Idioms

6. Idioms the whole kit and caboodle, all the persons or things concerned:
   bought the whole kit and caboodle for $500.

kit³ /kɪt/   n. [countable]

1. a kitten.
2. Zoology a young fox, beaver, or other small animal that has fur.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

kit¹  (kit), n., v., kit•ted, kit•ting. 
n. 

1. a set or collection of tools, supplies, instructional matter, etc., for a specific purpose:
   a first-aid kit; a sales kit.
2. the case for containing these.
3. such a case and its contents.
4. a set of materials or parts from which something can be assembled:
   a model car made from a kit.
5. Informal Terms a set, lot, or collection of things or persons.
6. a wooden tub, pail, etc., usually circular.
7. British Terms [Chiefly Brit.] a costume or outfit of clothing, esp. for a specific purpose:
   ski kit;
   dancing kit;
   battle kit.
8. Informal Terms, Idioms kit and caboodle or boodle, the whole lot of persons or things;
   all of something (often prec. by whole):
   We took along the whole kit and caboodle in the station wagon.

v.t. 

9. to package or make available in a kit:
   a new model airplane that has just been kitted for the hobbyist.
10. British Terms [Chiefly Brit.] to outfit or equip (often fol. by out or up).

• Middle Dutch kitte jug, tankard
• Middle English kyt, kitt 1325–75

kit²  (kit), n. 

1. Music and Dance a violin or rebec small enough to be carried in the pocket, used by dancing masters in the 17th and 18th centuries. Also called pochette, sourdine. 

• origin, originally uncertain 1510–20

kit³  (kit), n. 

1. kitten.
2. Zoology a young fox, beaver, or other small furbearing animal.

• shortened form 1555–65

Kit  (kit), n. 

1. a male given name, form of Christopher. 
2. a female given name, form of Catherine or Katherine. 

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kit / kɪt/ noun

1. a set of tools, supplies, construction materials, etc, for use together or for a purpose: a first-aid kit, a model aircraft kit
2. the case or container for such a set
3. a set of pieces of equipment ready to be assembled
4. clothing and other personal effects, esp those of a traveller or soldier: safari kit, battle kit
5. clothing in general (esp in the phrase get one's kit off)

Etymology: 14th Century: from Middle Dutch kitte tankard

kit / kɪt/ noun

1. an informal or diminutive name for kitten

Etymology: 16th Century: by shortening

kit / kɪt/ noun

1. a plaited flax basket

Etymology: from Māori kete

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KIT abbreviation

1. keep in touch