toolkit

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English

Toolkit

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Etymology

From tool +‎ kit.

Noun

toolkit (plural toolkits)

  1. A set of tools kept together, especially comprising all the tools suitable for some particular type of work.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 119:
      The culture of Ice Age humanity expresses a steady growth in the complexity of the tool kit, and a steady growth in complexity of artistic development.
  2. (by extension) A set of personal abilities, skills, or resources to draw on.
    • 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 7:
      My hope is that this book will familiarize readers with tools for analyzing historical and contemporary mechanisms of social differentiation, ethnoracial division, and symbolic structural inequality. My belief is that boundary theory offers the very best tool kit for this kind of work.
    • 2023, Eric Sims, Jing Cynthia Wu, and Ji Zhang, The Four-Equation New Keynesian Model, The Review of Economics and Statistics 105(4), pp. 931--947
      Prior to the Great Recession, active management of the long-bond portfolio was not a major feature of most central banks' toolkits, Japan being one notable exception.
  3. (computing) A set of software tools or components.
    • 1986, PC Mag, volume 5, number 17, page 221:
      Morgan Computing Co.'s Disk Toolkit is the perfect program for speed demons who want a more flexible way to wield DEBUG's power.
  4. (India, politics) A set of guidelines or instructions.
  5. (India, politics, derogatory) Instructions to organise a protest.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English toolkit.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tuwˈki.t͡ʃi/ , /tuwˈkit͡ʃ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /tuwˈkit͡ʃ/ , /tuwˈki.t͡ʃi/

Noun

toolkit m (plural toolkits)

  1. (computing) toolkit (set of basic components for developing software)