different between packet vs kit

English

Alternative forms

• pacquet (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pak.?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pæk.?t/

Noun

packet (plural packets)

1. A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel

2. (nautical) 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 (Wikipedia).
3. (botany) A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
4. (networking) A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
5. (South Africa) A plastic bag.
   • 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
6. (colloquial) A manbulge.
7. (informal) A large amount of money.

Derived terms

• fag packet

Translations

Verb

packet (third-person singular simple present packets, present participle packeting, simple past and past participle packeted)

1. (transitive) To make up into a packet or bundle.
2. (transitive) To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
   • 1636, John Ford, The Fancies Chaste and Noble

     Her husband was packeted to France.

3. (intransitive) To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
4. (transitive, Internet) 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

     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 […]

Translations

See also

• datagram
• packetlike
• packet radio
• packet switching, packet-switching

Further reading

• packet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• packet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ptacek, peck at

German

Alternative forms

• packt

Pronunciation

Verb

packet

1. imperative plural of packen

Portuguese

Noun

packet m (plural packets)

1. (networking) packet (small fragment of data)

Swedish

Noun

packet

1. definite singular of pack

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English kyt, kytt, kytte, from Middle Dutch kitte (“a wooden vessel made of hooped staves”). Related to Dutch kit (“tankard”) (see below). 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

kit (plural kits)

1. A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
2. A kind of basket made especially from straw of rushes, especially for holding fish; by extension, the contents of such a basket or similar container, used as a measure of weight.
   • 1961 18 Jan, Guardian (cited after OED):

   He was pushing a barrow on the fish dock, wheeling aluminium kits which, when full, each contain 10 stone of fish.

3. A collection of items forming the equipment of a soldier, carried in a knapsack.
4. Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.

   Always carry a good first-aid kit.

5. A collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble.

   I built the entire car from a kit.

6. (Britain, sports) The standard set of clothing, accessories and equipment worn by players.
7. (Britain, informal) Clothing.

   Get your kit off and come to bed.

8. (computing, informal) A full software distribution, as opposed to a patch or upgrade.
9. (video games) The set of skills and abilities chosen for a playable character.
10. (music) A drum kit.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• kit and caboodle
• kit car
• kit out

Translations

Verb

kit (third-person singular simple present kits, present participle kitting, simple past and past participle kitted)

1. (transitive) To assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases.

   We need to kit the parts for the assembly by Friday, so that manufacturing can build the tool.

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"). Later usage (for other animals) perhaps influenced by chit.

Noun

kit (plural kits)

1. A kitten (young cat).
2. A kit fox.
3. A young skunk.
4. A young ferret.
5. A young rabbit.
6. A young weasel

Translations

Etymology 3

16th century, perhaps from cithara.

Noun

kit (plural kits)

1. Synonym of kit violin
   • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musaeum Regalis Societatis, or, A catalogue & description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society and preserved at Gresham Colledge

     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

Borrowed from German kitte, kütte (circa 1880).

Noun

kit (plural kits)

1. A school of pigeons, especially domesticated, trained pigeons.

Anagrams

• ITK, ikt, tik

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Russian ??? (kit).

Noun

kit

1. whale (Cetacea)

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Danish

Etymology 1

From German Kitt (“putty”).

Noun

kit n (singular definite kittet, not used in plural form)

1. putty

Etymology 2

From English kit (1980).

Noun

kit n (singular definite kittet, plural indefinite kit or kits)

1. kit

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin. Possibly borrowed from the dialectal German Kietze (“carrying basket”), from Proto-Germanic *kitj?-. The German word has also appeared as Kötze, from Middle High German *kœzze, from Proto-Germanic *kut-, which would be related to the root of kot (“ramshackle house”), itself of non-Indo-European origin.

Noun

kit f (plural kitten, diminutive kitje n)

1. metal can, used mainly for coal

Derived terms

• kolenkit

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Kitt.

Noun

kit f or n (uncountable)

1. sealant

Derived terms

• kitten

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English kit.

Noun

kit m (plural kits, diminutive kitje n)

1. set of tools

References

Anagrams

• tik

Hungarian

Etymology

ki +? -t

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kit]
• Hyphenation: kit

Pronoun

kit

1. accusative singular of ki

Jehai

Noun

kit

1. buttocks

   kit t?m : mouth of the river (literally: buttocks [of the] river)

References

• Niclas Burenhult, A grammar of Jahai (2005)

Nzadi

Noun

kít (plural kít)

1. chair

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ?ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?it/

Etymology 1

From German Kitt

Noun

kit m inan

1. putty (form of cement)
2. (slang) lie

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) kitowa?, skitowa?, zakitowa?, okitowa?, wykitowa?
• (noun) kitowacz
• (noun phrase) kit pszczeli
• (adjective) kitowy

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kit f

1. genitive plural of kita

Further reading

• kit in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English kit.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?kit??/
  • Homophone: kitsch

Noun

kit m (plural kits)

1. kit (collection of items needed for a specific purpose)

   Synonym: jogo

2. kit (collection of parts sold for the buyer to assemble)

Derived terms

• kit gay

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (kêtos).

Noun

k?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. whale

Declension

See also

• pliskavica (special type of a whale)

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ????? (kêtos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kí?t/

Noun

k?t m anim (female equivalent k?tovka)

1. whale

Inflection

Etymology 2

From German Kitt (“putty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kí?t/

Noun

k?t m inan

1. putty

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From English kit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kit/, [?kit?]

Noun

kit m (plural kits)

1. kit

   Synonym: (kit) equipo

Tok Pisin

Noun

kit

1. putty

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ??? (kit), from Ancient Greek ????? (kêtos).

Noun

kit (definite accusative kidi, plural kitler)

1. whale

Declension