pack meaning
EN[pæk] [-æk]WPack
- Pack may refer to:
- Backpack
- Pack (canine), family structure of wild animals of the biological family Canidae
- Pack hunter, other animals that hunt in a group
- Cub scouts group, or a group or gang in a larger sense, as in Leader of the Pack.
- Playing cards pack
- Cigarette pack
- Expansion pack, a video game needing another one to be played
- Pack (aircraft), P.A.C.K (Pneumatic Air Cycle Kit), a kit containing an air cycle machine that provides air conditioning as part of an aircraft's environmental control system
FR pack
- NounPLpacks
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
- The horses carried the packs across the plain.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
- A pack of lies.
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
- A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
- We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
- A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
- A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
- a pack of thieves or knaves.
- A group of Cub Scouts.
- A shook of cask staves.
- A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
- (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
- (slang): A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
- (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
- (rugby) The team on the field.
- A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back; a load for an animal; a bale, as of goods.
- VerbSGpacksPRpackingPT, PPpacked
- (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
- to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
- to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater
- The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
- to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine; pack someone's arm with ice.
- the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well
- the grouse or the perch begin to pack
- (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
- Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
- to pack a jury
- He lost life [ …] upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.
- This naughty man / Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, / Who, I believe, was pack'd in all this wrong, / Hired to it by your brother.
- (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
- to pack a horse
- To move, send or carry.
- to pack a boy off to school
- Poor Stella must pack off to town.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a simulated penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
- (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Though co-star Keanu Reeves considered this new trip unnecessary, the "Speed 2" crew has packed in lots of references from the original.
- Some hikers choose to slackpack when they want credit for hiking the miles but do not want to carry full packs over difficult terrain.
- year I was diagnosed with cervical cancer and had to pack in my job as a full-time cleaner as I needed chemo and radiotherapy
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Pack some fish or crab meat into a 4-ounce mold (a ½-cup metal measuring cup works fine) and unmold onto a platter.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- In 1987, with fellow runner Will Uher, John fastpacked the 211-mile John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada in 8 1/2 days, carrying a 30-pound pack.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of pack in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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Source: Wiktionary