Pronunciations (2)
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/pæk/
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[pʰæk]
Noun
A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
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The horses carried the packs across the plain.
We do not ask him to make up his mind, but to make up his pack.
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
A multitude.
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a pack of lies
a pack of complaints
A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
A full set of playing cards
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We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
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cut the pack
A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or living together.
Usage- collective
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African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.
A group of wolves, hunting together.
Usage- collective
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If I hurried down to the river, he said, I should be sure to fall in with a pack of wolves, for just as he was driving up the hill close to the sound, they started up the river on the ice.
A flock of knots.
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They form extremely tight flocks, which carpet the ground, giving rise to the descriptive name of "a pack" of knots.
A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
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a pack of thieves
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"She will try, for she does not know that it is you who dropped the tallow on the shirt; but that can only be done by Christian folks, and not by a pack of trolls like we have in this place; and so I will say that I will not have anybody else for a bride except the one who can wash the shirt clean, and I know you can do that."
In London there are some thirty gangs of “bovver birds,” violence-prone girls who roam the streets in packs attacking almost any vulnerable object for no apparent reason other than the sheer thrill of it.
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.
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The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
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And now they came to the edge of the pack, and beyond it they could see Shiny Wall looming, through mist, and snow, and storm. But the pack rolled horribly upon the swell, and the ice giants fought and roared, and leapt upon each other's backs, and ground each other to powder […]
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 loose, lewd, or worthless person.
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That stupid pack did nothing but stare at us throughout the whole project.
A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
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The captain had to take a man out of the pack to replace the injured fullback.
If the pack wasn't pummelling England, Handre Pollard kept delivering telling blows.
The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
A package of cigarettes.
Usage- Slang
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“Carlo, I told you that three packs a day would kill you long before I was gone.”
Verb
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
Usage- physical
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to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
strange materials wound up in that shape and texture, and packed together with wonderful art in the several cavities of the skull
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Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. 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.
Usage- physical
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to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater
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By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
The mix of ballet vocabulary, modern techniques and African steps is familiar, but the extent to which Mr. Rhoden packs — and overpacks — phrases, cultivates warp-speed delivery and hyperextends every possible hip jut and arabesque is, thank goodness, something special to Complexions.
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
Usage- physical
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The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
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to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine; pack someone's arm with ice.
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
Usage- Intransitive
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To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
Usage- Intransitive
- physical
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the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
Usage- Intransitive
- physical
- of animals
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the grouse or the perch begin to pack
To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
Usage- Historical
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To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. To compress (data).
Usage- physical
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To cheat. To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
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Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
To cheat. To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
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to pack a jury
The expected council was dwindling into[…]a packed assembly of Italian bishops.
To cheat. To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
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To cheat. To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
Usage- Intransitive
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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.
To load with a pack.
Usage- Transitive
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to pack a horse
To load; to encumber.
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our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
To move, send or carry. To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
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to pack a boy off to school
Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
To move, send or carry. To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
Usage- US usage
- Western
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To move, send or carry. To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
Usage- Intransitive
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Poor Stella must pack off to town.
You shall pack, / And never more darken my doors again.
To move, send or carry. To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
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packing heat
A: What was he packing? B: He was packing an M1911 with a custom large-capacity magazine.
To move, send or carry. To have a large penis, as if carrying a large weapon on one's person.
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Wow, get a load of him — he's packing.
To move, send or carry. To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
Usage- especially
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- of a trans man or drag king
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I am a butch bisexual woman […] Frequently I like to appear as masculine as I can, often passing for male on the street. […] Sometimes I pack when I go out, putting my dildo in my pants and wearing my dick out of the house.
To block a shot, especially in basketball.
Usage- Slang
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To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
Usage- Intransitive
- of the forwards in a rugby team
Noun
a large indefinite quantity
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a battalion of ants
a multitude of TV antennas
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a plurality of religions
a complete collection of similar things
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a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)
an association of criminals
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police tried to break up the gang
a pack of thieves
an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
a group of hunting animals
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a cream that cleanses and tones the skin
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a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect
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a bundle (especially one carried on the back)
Verb
arrange in a container
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pack the books into the boxes
fill to capacity
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This singer always packs the concert halls
The murder trial packed the court house
compress into a wad
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wad paper into the box
carry, as on one's back
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Pack your tents to the top of the mountain
set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
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pack a jury
have with oneself; have on one's person
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She always takes an umbrella
I always carry money
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She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains
press tightly together or cram
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The crowd packed the auditorium
hike with a backpack
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Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies
press down tightly
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tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso
seal with packing
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pack the faucet
have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
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This powder compacts easily
Such odd-shaped items do not pack well
load with a pack
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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
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The nurse packed gauze in the wound
You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice