Definition of pack in English English dictionary
- 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 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 of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang
a pack of thieves or knaves.
- A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely
The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
- To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into; as
the play, or the audience, packs the theater.
- To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings
The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
- To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off
pack a boy off to school.
- To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion
- To render impervious, as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without giving passage to air, water, or steam
pack someone's arm with ice.
- A shook of cask staves
- : A loose, lewd, or worthless person
- To depart in haste; – generally with off or away
- To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person
- An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment
- A group of Cub Scouts
- To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or narrow compass
pack fish in a box.
- To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack
- To admit of stowage, or of making up for transportation or storage; to become compressed or to settle together, so as to form a compact mass; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well
- To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result
pack a jury or a causes.
- To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals)
- To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber
to pack a horse.
- To block a shot, especially in basketball
- A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously
- A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker
- To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation
- A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective
- A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together
African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.
- To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden
A pack of lies.
- To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly
- {n} a large bundle, load, burden, 52 cards, a number of hounds, set, crew
- {v} to bind up for carriage, to sort cards, to put down meat in salt, to pick a jury
- To depart in haste; - generally with off or away
- The 52 playing cards with which the game of Contract Bridge is played
- See Pack, n
- a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"
- press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium"
- have the property of being packable or compactable or of compacting easily; "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"
- To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp
- {i} bundle, package; backpack; parcel, packet; group of animals (especially wolves, dogs etc.); group, crowd; cosmetic paste for the face; medical wrapping of cloth or gauze, deck (British)
- If people or things pack into a place or if they pack a place, there are so many of them that the place is full. Hundreds of thousands of people packed into the mosque Seventy thousand people will pack the stadium. = cram
- {f} fill to capacity; load items into something (i.e. clothes into a suitcase or merchandise into a container); crowd; compress; carry, transport
- 1 A term in remote procedure calls for converting data into a machine-independent format 2 To compress data
- load with a pack
- When people pack things, for example in a factory, they put them into containers or parcels so that they can be transported and sold. They offered me a job packing goods in a warehouse Machines now exist to pack olives in jars. sardines packed in oil. + packing pack·ing His onions cost 9p a lb wholesale; packing and transport costs 10p
- A pack of things is a collection of them that is sold or given together in a box or bag. The club will send a free information pack. a pack of cigarettes
- v put belongings into a container for transportation n a sack on your back
- When you pack a bag, you put clothes and other things into it, because you are leaving a place or going on holiday. When I was 17, I packed my bags and left home I packed and said goodbye to Charlie. + packing pack·ing She left Frances to finish her packing
- An assembly containing a spinnerette, filter screen, gaskets, and sand through which polymer is passed to filter out impurities and form filaments by forcing polymer through spinnerette
- To depart in haste; generally with off or away
- A full count of ten
- seal with packing; "pack the faucet"
- the number of rows or courses in a bundle (i e - 9/9 pack for 24" resawn shakes)
- on the backs of men or beasts
- The forwards who compose one half of the scrummage; also, the scrummage
- To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack i
- To store data in a compact form in such a way that the original form can be recovered
- A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves
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- A pack of playing cards is a complete set of playing cards. see also packed, packing
- A group of closely related animals that live and hunt together
- treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood; "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"
- fill to capacity; "This singer always packs the concert halls"; "They murder trial packed the court house"
- A maintenance operation that must be periodically performed on a database to remove fragments of deleted data
- To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; - sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school
- to send away peremptorily or suddenly; sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school
- To bale or bundle
- hike with a backpack; "Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies"
- a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
- compress into a wad; "wad paper into the box"
- pack a punch
- To be capable of throwing a strong punch
If gorillas do fight, injuries can be very serious as these animals have long canine teeth and silverbacks pack a punch estimated at eight times stronger than a heavyweight boxer.
- pack a punch
- To have a swift and powerful effect or to be capable of having such an effect
Second, prepare the choices as one-liners. Each one should pack a punch and be so polished that it will jump off the screen into the minds of the audience and create a funny picture.
- pack animal
- A domesticated animal used to carry heavy items
- pack animals
- plural form of pack animal
- pack away
- to store away, place out of the way, or stash, especially for the longer term
She packed away her warm sweaters for the summer.
- pack away
- to eat a great deal (informal)
Have you ever seen someone pack away five hot dogs in one sitting?.
- pack fudge
- to perform homosexual anal sex
- pack heat
- To carry one or more handguns on one's person, especially in a concealed manner
If the current trend toward relaxation of concealed-weapons laws continues, soon the most important gun restrictions may involve destinations: the states will probably allow various venues—public gathering places, offices, stores—to ban firearms on the premises. The only problem will be how to know who is packing heat.
- pack horse
- A horse used for carrying luggage
The pack horse was sick - with a big, open sore rubbed under the belly.
- pack horses
- plural form of pack horse
- pack ice
- A large consolidated mass of floating sea ice
- pack in
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- pack in
- to give up, to quit
LAST 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.
- pack in
- to include (especially of a large amount)
Though co-star Keanu Reeves considered this new trip unnecessary, the Speed 2 crew has packed in lots of references from the original.
- pack journalism
- A tendency of reporting to become homogeneous due to the reporters' habit of relying on one another for news tips or being dependent on a single source for information
- pack mentality
- The tendency for groups of individuals to act together without planned direction
- pack on
- To add (fat, muscle, etc.) so as to increase mass or bulk
The nine males packed on so much fat their weight increased to more than 700 grams.
- pack on pounds
- Alternative form of pack on the pounds
- pack on the pounds
- To gain weight, especially as a result of vigorous or excessive eating
Not only are married people more likely to become obese than those who are just dating, but young people who move in with a boyfriend or girlfriend tend to pack on the pounds too.
- pack rat
- A scavenger
- pack rat
- Any of several small North American rodents, of the genus Neotoma, that have bushy tails
- pack up
- To move one's residence
- pack up
- To give in
- pack up
- To prepare for shipping, as a gift
- pack up
- To put back together
- pack up
- To clear away
- pack-rat
- Alternative spelling of pack rat
- pack a punch
- (deyim) 1. To be able to give a powerful blow; have a dangerous fist. He packed a mean punch. 2. To have a violent effect; be powerful. It was vodka, and it packed quite a wallop
- pack in
- 1. put together in a pack, make a pack or package of2. colloq. give up an enterprise, stop what one is doing; surrender; die; (of a machine etc.) cease working, break down
- pack it in
- (deyim) 1. (Slang) Stop working, abandon an attempt2. (Slang) iBe quiet, behave yourself
- pack it up
- (deyim) 1. (Slang) Stop working, abandon an attempt2. (Slang) iBe quiet, behave yourself
- pack mentality
- Dogs are born into packs. In the wild, packs are the essential social order. Unlike humans, who use a variety of political processes to determine leadership and rank, dogs sort out their social order by dominance and power. In a wolf pack, there is a Top Dog - a clear leader who is the dominant, Alpha male. He's the Big Dog, with pride of place at the dinner table (well, if wolves had a dinner table!), first in mating, first in decision making for the pack
- pack up
- 1. put together in a pack, make a pack or package of2. colloq. give up an enterprise, stop what one is doing; surrender; die; (of a machine etc.) cease working, break down
- pack animal
- an animal such as a mule or burro or horse used to carry loads
- pack animal
- A pack animal is an animal such as a horse or donkey that is used to carry things on journeys. An animal, such as a mule, used to carry loads. an animal used for carrying heavy loads, for example a horse
- pack animal
- beat of burden, animal used to carry cargo
- pack herse
- See under 2d Pack
- pack horse
- a horse used for carrying heavy loads
- pack horse
- horse that carries supplies
- pack ice
- a large expanse of floating ice
- pack ice
- mass of floating ice formed over a period of many years
- pack ice
- Pack ice is an area of ice that is floating on the sea. It is made up of pieces of ice that have been pushed together. Floating ice that has been driven together into a single mass. a mass of ice floating in the sea
- pack in
- If someone packs in things or people, they fit a lot of them into a limited space or time. Prisons are having to pack in as many inmates as possible It's kind of a referendum, though a lot of issues are packed in. = cram in If a play, film or event packs them in, lots of people go to see it. `Blow your head!' is still packing them in at Camden's Jazz Café every Friday night
- pack in
- If you pack something in, you stop doing it. I'd just packed in a job the day before Pack it in. Stop being spiteful
- pack into
- If someone packs a lot of something into a limited space or time, they fit a lot into it. I have tried to pack a good deal into a few words. = cram into
- pack into
- If people or things are packed into a place, so many of them are put in there that the place becomes very full. Some 700 people were packed into a hotel room. = cram into
- pack of cards
- set of playing cards
- pack of cards
- a pack of 52 playing cards
- pack of cigarettes
- box of cigarettes
- pack of lies
- bunch of lies, whole lot of lies, total nonsense
- pack of thieves
- gang of robbers, group of burglars, group of thieves
- pack of wolves
- group of wolves that hunt and travel together
- pack off
- If you pack someone off somewhere, you send them there to stay for a period of time. He packed off his wife and children to stay in a caravan in Wales I finally succeeded in packing her off to bed
- pack off
- launch, send away
- pack on
- gain (weight); "He packed on two pounds over the summer
- pack on
- gain (weight); "He packed on two pounds over the summer"
- pack rat
- someone who collects things that have been discarded by others
- pack rat
- someone who collects and stores things that they do not really need
- pack rat
- any of several bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Neotoma of western North America; hoards food and other objects
- pack rat
- type of large mouse in North America that collects and hides things in its den; nickname for a person who collects useless objects
- pack riding
- riding with a pack
- pack saddle
- See under 2d Pack
- pack thread
- See under 2d Pack
- pack together
- compress: make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data"
- pack train
- A line of animals, such as horses or mules, loaded with supplies for an expedition
- pack train
- long line of pack animals carrying cargo
- pack trip
- a trip through the countryside on horses, for fun or as a sport British Equivalent: pony-trekking
- pack up
- If a machine or a part of the body packs up, it stops working. In the end it was his stomach and lungs that packed up
- pack up
- If you pack up or if you pack up your things, you put your possessions or the things you have been using in a case or bag, because you are leaving. They packed up and went home He began packing up his things
- Duluth pack
- A traditional piece of luggage used in canoe travel, particularly in the Boundary Waters region of northern Minnesota and Ontario. A specialized type of backpack, made of either heavy canvas or nylon, that are approximately square in order to fit easily in the bottom of a canoe
- Home Information Pack
- A collection of documents relating to a property, which, under the law of England and Wales between June 2007 and 2010, had to be provided when the property was offered for sale. Abbreviation: HIP
- Joe Six-pack
- Alternative form of Joe Sixpack
- RAM pack
- A hardware module containing RAM for use by another device
After preprogramming, the player can insert the RAM pack into the slot and push a button, and the instrument will load the information and set the registers.
- Seller's Pack
- A less common name for a Home Information Pack
- blister pack
- One of several types of pre-formed plastic packaging, used for consumer goods and pharmaceuticals, consisting of a cavity and lidding
- bowl pack
- A quantity of a recreational drug sufficient to fill the bowl of a small pipe used to smoke it
He had some good herb; a little sticky, a little blueberry-scented, nice and clumpy, perfect for a bowl pack.
- dye pack
- A hidden explosive device with an mass of distinctive paint, intended to stain stolen goods like paper money to make them too distinctive to use without being identified
- eight pack
- An exceptionally well-developed set of abdominal muscles in which eight distinct portions of muscle are visible
You could be one of those genetically gifted individuals who has the potential to show off an eight-pack instead of a six.
- eight-pack
- Alternative form of eight pack
- expansion pack
- A module that adds new content to an existing piece of software
- fanny pack
- A small fabric pouch secured with a zipper and worn at the waist by a strap around the hips
She wears her fanny pack every day on her morning jog around Central Park.
- froth pack
- a term used to describe small, disposable aerosol cans that contain spray polyurethane foam (SPF) components
- hip pack
- fanny pack , bum bag
- ice pack
- a large floating mass of ice; pack ice
- ice pack
- a plastic sac of silicone that can be cooled in a freezer and then used in a cool bag
- ice pack
- a pack of crushed ice applied to the body in order to reduce pain or inflammation
- jam-pack
- To pack or fill something tightly
- jet pack
- A piece of equipment that may be strapped to a person’s back and generate vertical thrust by a downward discharge of jet fluid, thereby rendering the person capable of flight
- jet-pack
- Alternative spelling of jet pack
- packed
- Put into a package
packed lunch.
- packed
- Filled to capacity with people
The bus was packed and I couldn't get on.
- packed
- Filled with a large number or large quantity of something
packed with goodness.
- packed
- Simple past tense and past participle of pack
- packing
- Present participle of pack
- packing
- As a concrete noun
A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
- packing
- The action of the verb
rugby The forming of players into a scrum.
- power pack
- A portable power supply
- rocket pack
- A jet pack using a rocket engine
- rocket-pack
- Alternative spelling of rocket pack
- service pack
- A collection of software patches or upgrades offered as a single package with an installer
- six pack
- A highly developed set of abdominal muscles
- six pack
- A selection of six photographs, including one of a suspect, used for witness idenitification
- six pack
- A set of six beverage cans or bottles sold together, especially of beer
If you're thirsty, there's a six pack in the kitchen.
- six-pack
- A collection of six of something bundled together, especially six cans
- six-pack
- A highly developed set of abdominal muscles
Developing a cut-up six-pack doesn't happen by accident unless you've got exceptional genetics.
- ahead of the pack
- (Ev ile ilgili) More successful than those you are competing against
- feature pack
- (Antika) In computing, a service pack or SP (in short SP) or a feature pack (FP) comprises a collection of updates, fixes, or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package
- service pack
- (Antika) In computing, a service pack or SP (in short SP) or a feature pack (FP) comprises a collection of updates, fixes, or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package
- media pack
- (Reklam) A folder of information issued by a particular publication concerning the publication and the process of placing ads in the publication. Regular elements of the standard media pack include contract rates, column sizes, deadlines, editorial calendars, special features, media circulation, geographic coverage, audience demographics, etc
- packed
- A place that is packed is very crowded. From 3.30 until 7pm, the shop is packed The streets were packed with men, women and children
- packed
- {s} full; wrapped; compressed; crowded
- packed
- Past tense and past participle of to pack
- packed
- Something that is packed with things contains a very large number of them. The Encyclopedia is packed with clear illustrations and over 250 recipes
- packed
- pressed together or compressed; "packed snow"
- packed
- filled to capacity; "a suitcase jammed with dirty clothes"; "stands jam-packed with fans"; "a packed theater"
- packed
- pressed together or compressed; "packed snow
- packing
- Any container or other covering in which goods are packed
- packing
- Paper used to underlay the image or impression cylinder in letterpress or the plate or blanket in lithography to get the proper squeeze and pressure for printing
- packing
- Same as Filling
- packing
- On some compression fittings, the relatively soft material used to provide a water seal when squeezed or compressed
- packing
- carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts"
- packing
- Method of batching an electoral group into a single district to reduce their electoral influence Ant: fracturing
- packing
- The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides
- packing
- The costs consisting of containers and coverings plus the labor andmaterials used in packing the imported merchandise, ready for export
- packing
- any material used especially to protect something
- packing
- Any container or other covering in which goods are packed Packing Instruction Document issued within an enterprise giving instructions on how goods are to be packed
- packing
- In printing presses, paper used to underlay the image or impression cylinder in letterpress, or the plate or blanket in lithography, to get proper squeeze or pressure for printing
- packing
- Any of a variety of vapor-liquid contacting media used in continuous separating columns
- packing
- a sealing device consisting of bulk deformable material or one or more mating deformable elements, reshaped by manually adjustable compression to obtain and maintain effectiveness It usually used axial compression to obtain radial sealing
- packing
- Paper that is packed under the plate or blanket or cylinder to provide proper pressure for printing
- packing
- This refers to cartons and is not to be confused with loading of the van (packing the van)
- packing
- armed
- packing
- carrying something in a pack on the back; "the backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts" the enclosure of something in a package or box
- packing
- A yielding ring, as of metal, which surrounds a piston and maintains a tight fit, as inside a cylinder, etc
- packing
- Packing is the paper, plastic, or other material which is put round things that are being sent somewhere. see also pack
- packing
- In lithography, the paper used to underlay a blanket, plate or proof to bring the surface to the desired height, the method of adjusting squeeze pressure The act of inserting the packing material under the blanket or plate
- packing
- {i} packaging material; filling; caulking; manner in which a thing is packed; action of someone or something that packs
- packing
- A trick; collusion
- packing
- the enclosure of something in a package or box
- packing
- A type of seal used to provide a leakproof connection between two parts of a unit that move in relation to each other
- packing
- Any material used to pack, fill up, or make close
- packing
- A substance or piece used to make a joint impervious A thin layer, or sheet, of yielding or elastic material inserted between the surfaces of a flange joint
- packing
- Material used to seal a joint, such as in bell and spigot pipe, or to seal a gland through which a rotating shaft passes
- packing
- The act or process of one who packs
- packs
- third-person singular of pack