Kit vs Uniform - What's the difference?
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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
Unvarying; all the same.
Consistent; conforming to one standard.
* Hooker
(mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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, title= Phonetic equivalent for the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet, informally known as the NATO phonetic alphabet.
A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
* 1996 , S. J. Rozan, Concourse , Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-95944-3, page 265,
* 2001 , Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld , Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81012-3, page 113,
* 2004 , , Penny Dreadful , MacAdam/Cage Publishing, ISBN 1-931561-81-8, page 81,
To clothe in a uniform.
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=Ailsa Paige, chapter=, edition=
, passage=You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers. }}
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In transitive terms the difference between kit and uniform
is that 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 while uniform is to clothe in a uniform.As an initialism KIT
is keep in touch.As a proper noun Kit
is a diminutive of the male given name Christopher.kit
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 .
citation, page= , passage=A sell-out crowd of 10,000 then observed perfectly a period of silence before the team revealed their black armbands, complete with stitched-in poppies, for the match. After Fifa’s about-turn, it must have been a frantic few days for the England kit manufacturer. The on-field challenge was altogether more straightforward. }}
- 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.
Etymology 4
(ca. 1880).Anagrams
* * ----uniform
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The only doubt is how far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies.
Derived terms
* uniformity * uniformlyNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform .
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
- Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.
- Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”
- Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.
Verb
(en verb)citation