Bundle vs Kit - What's the difference?
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A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
* Goldsmith
A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
(biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
(informal) A large amount, especially of money.
(computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
A quantity of paper equal to 2 reams (1000 sheets).
To tie or wrap together.
To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
* T. Hook
To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony.
To dress someone warmly.
To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
(computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
To hurry.
(slang) To dogpile
To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
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(dated) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.
* Washington Irving
A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
A kind of basket made from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket, used as a measure of weight.
* 1961 18 Jan, Guardian (cited after OED):
A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack.
Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.
A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.
(UK, sports) The standard set of clothing, accessories and equipment worn by players.
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(UK, informal) Clothing.
(computing, informal) A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
drum kit
To assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases.
Something which came originally in kit form.
a kit violin
* Grew
* Charles Dickens, Bleak House
In transitive terms the difference between bundle and kit
is that bundle is to hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place while kit is to assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases.As nouns the difference between bundle and kit
is that bundle is a group of objects held together by wrapping or tying while kit is a circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.As verbs the difference between bundle and kit
is that bundle is to tie or wrap together while kit is to assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases.As an adjective kit is
something which came originally in kit form.As an initialism KIT is
keep in touch.As a proper noun Kit is
a diminutive of the male given name Christopher.bundle
English
(wikipedia bundle)Noun
(en noun)- a bundle''' of straw or of paper; a '''bundle of old clothes
- The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle , no strength could bend.
- The inventor of that gizmo must have made a bundle .
Derived terms
* bundle buggy * bundle of energy * bundle of His * bundle of joy * bundle of laughs * bundle of nervesDescendants
*Coordinate terms
* (quantity of paper) bale, quire, reamSee also
*Verb
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
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- Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
- Why, I didn't know that she meant that, until the Captain gave me an explanation, because I was dull of comprehension ; for he bundled me out of the house.
- Van Corlear stopped occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.
Derived terms
* bundle off * bundler * unbundlekit
English
(wikipedia kit)Etymology 1
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. The transfer of meaning to the contents of a soldier's knapsack dates to the late 18th century, extended use of any collection of necessaries used for travelling dates to the first half of the 19th century. The further widening of the sense to a collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble emerges in US English in the mid 20th century.Noun
(en noun)- He was pushing a barrow on the fish dock, wheeling aluminium kits which, when full, each contain 10 stone of fish.
- Always carry a good first-aid kit .
- I built the entire car from a kit .
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- Get your kit off and come to bed.
Derived terms
* airfix kit * first aid kit * football kit * kit and caboodle * kit out * kitbag * model kit * pack-up kit * toolkit * electronic kit * robot kit * starter kit * body kit * kit carVerb
(kitt)- We need to kit the parts for the assembly by Friday, so that manufacturing can build the tool.
Adjective
(-)- kit car
Etymology 2
A short form of kitten. From the 16th century (spelled kytte'', ''kitt ). From the 19th century also extended to other young animals (mink, fox, muskrat, etc.), and to a species of small fox ("kit-fox").Etymology 3
16th century, perhaps from citharaNoun
(en noun)- A dancing master's kit .
- Prince Turveydrop then tinkled the strings of his kit with his fingers, and the young ladies stood up to dance.