What's the difference between equipment and kit?

Equipment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
  • (n.) Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (2) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (3) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (4) This suggests that the latter group does not possess the genetic equipment (Ir genes) to recognize the antigenic determinants and to synthesize the corresponding antibodies.
  • (5) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
  • (6) The importance of proper disinfection of such equipment cannot be overemphasized.
  • (7) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (8) The indication of the DNA probe method would be considered in the four cases as follows, 1. necessity of the special equipment to isolate the pathogen, 2. necessity of the long period to isolate the pathogen, 3. existence of the cross reaction among the pathogen and relative organisms in the immunological procedure, 4. existence of the difficulty to identify the species of the pathogen by the ordinary procedure.
  • (9) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.
  • (10) The American Red Cross said the aid organisation had already run out of medical supplies, with spokesman Eric Porterfield explaining that the small amount of medical equipment and medical supplies available in Haiti had been distributed.
  • (11) The first part of this survey which dealt with equipment for the anterior segment was published in a previous issue of this journal.
  • (12) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (13) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
  • (14) A simple technique is described for producing enhanced radiographs of excised breast specimens with clinical mammographic equipment.
  • (15) Drones and helicopter strikes are not equipped with political night-vision.
  • (16) In addition to the threat of industrial espionage to sustain this position, there is an inherent risk of Chinese equipment being used for intelligence purposes.
  • (17) A planned, induced labor with regional anesthesia and continuous invasive monitoring in a well-equipped medical center provides the safest setting for delivery.
  • (18) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
  • (19) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
  • (20) At the same time optical and mechanical systems of the Soviet-made sigmoidoscope, model CBO-1, an apparatus equipped with fibrous optical elements for transmission of ligh and image, now in batch production, are described.

Kit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut.
  • (n.) A kitten.
  • (n.) A small violin.
  • (m.) A large bottle.
  • (m.) A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel.
  • (m.) straw or rush basket for fish; also, any kind of basket.
  • (m.) A box for working implements; hence, a working outfit, as of a workman, a soldier, and the like.
  • (m.) A group of separate parts, things, or individuals; -- used with whole, and generally contemptuously; as, the whole kit of them.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Measurements of ChE concentration and ChE enzymatic activity by two different assay kits in 63 serum samples taken in the Clinical Laboratory of the Jichi Medical School correlated closely.
  • (2) Using a commercially available radioimmunoassay kit.
  • (3) Using control blood smears, we compared the results of the Fetaldex kit with those results obtained by the Betke-Kleihauer technique.
  • (4) Given that patient preferences constitute a central concept within the framework of HRQL, further empirical evaluation of utility measures of preference is fundamental to improving the HRQL measurement tool-kit.
  • (5) Two commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits, seven serum plate agglutination (SPA) antigens, and the hemagglutination-inhibition (HI) test for antibodies to Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) were compared for sensitivity and specificity using known MG-positive and MG-negative sera from leghorn chickens.
  • (6) The kit was also used on the ward by junior medical staff, who showed that after minimal training reproducible serum C reactive protein results could be obtained.
  • (7) Further improvements in the laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease should be made by standardizing current methods (including commercial test kits), establishing reference laboratories in the United States and Europe, and by developing rapid antigen detection procedures.
  • (8) Plasma prolactin concentration was estimated by a double antibody radioimmunoassay (RIA) technique using hPRL RIA kit provided by NIAMDD.
  • (9) The police on Scotland Yard's press operation Kit Malthouse, assembly member chair, Metropolitan Police Authority "I doubt whether money is changing hands.
  • (10) Some of these are influenced by action of cytokines at the cell surface, an example of which is the interaction of c-kit with its ligand, the stem cell factor.
  • (11) The value of serum thyroglobulin assay employing a kit manufactured by Diagnostic Products Corporation in the detection of recurrence of thyroid carcinoma in patients treated by thyroidectomy and ablative therapy was assessed by clinical follow-up and radioiodine scanning of 122 patients over a 2-year period.
  • (12) We also demonstrate that SCF induces dimerization of the c-kit product in intact cells, and that dimerization of the receptor is correlated with activation of its kinase.
  • (13) This study analyzed the cost-effectiveness and distribution of costs by program stage of three smoking cessation programs: a smoking cessation class; an incentive-based quit smoking contest; and a self-help quit smoking kit.
  • (14) Results of the screening kit were repeatable and had high specificity but poor sensitivity.
  • (15) It was found that combining faecal occult blood testing with the health check did not reduce attendance at the health check--43.5% of patients attended when the Haemoccult test kit was offered by the nurse at the health check, 43.6% attended when a test kit was included with the invitation to attend the health check and 42.9% attended when the health check invitation was posted on its own.
  • (16) Expression of human c-kit proto-oncogene and interleukin-7 receptor (IL-7R) in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells expressing CD7 was examined by Northern-blot analysis and reversed transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay in relation to the phenotypes.
  • (17) The protocol was devised by first evaluating a range of kits in London using a battery of African and non-African sera and then field testing 1455 sera in Malaŵi, which included 184 sera from leprosy patients and 60 sera from syphilis patients to check for cross-reactivity.
  • (18) The sensitivity and the specificity of two new commercial reagent tests, an indirect fluorescent antibody test (FAT) with a mouse monoclonal antibody (MAb) against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) RSV antigen detection kit, were determined by a comparison of results from these tests with those of tissue culture isolation and an indirect FAT with bovine polyclonal antibody (BPA).
  • (19) The results are discussed in terms of clinical usefulness of the CEA assay and as regards reproducibility, procedural advantages, and economical cost of each kit.
  • (20) Kits of radioimmunoassay were performed for SIIIPP dosage.

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