Packet vs Kit - What's the difference?
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A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters, a packet of crisps, a packet of biscuits.
(lb) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel ().
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*:With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon , river packet , the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
(lb) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
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*:With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get.
(lb) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks ().
(lb) A plastic bag.
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To make up into a packet or bundle.
To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
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To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
* 2007 , Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, ?Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
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.
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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
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* Charles Dickens, Bleak House
In transitive terms the difference between packet and kit
is that packet is to send in a packet or dispatch vessel 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.packet
English
Alternative forms
* pacquet (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Wendy Knowler], ''[http://www.iol.co.za/blogs/wendy-knowler-s-consumer-watch-1.1608/plastic-packets-who-bags-the-profits-1.1356896 Plastic 'packets : who bags the profits?
Verb
(en verb)- Her husband was packeted to France.
- Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting —tend to be of limited duration
See also
* datagram * packetlike * packet radio * packet switching, packet-switchingReferences
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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.