Pack
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English
Noun
Pack (plural Packs)- 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.
- 2005, John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba - The mammals of the southern African subregion
- African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.
- 2005, John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba - The mammals of the southern African subregion
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms
(full set of cards): deck
Derived terms
Verb
Pack (third-person singular simple present Packs, present participle Packing, simple past and past participle Packed)
- (transitive) 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 goods in a box
- pack fish in a box.
- (transitive) 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,
- to pack a trunk
- the play, or the audience, packs the theater.
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result
- pack a jury or a causes.
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber
- to pack a horse
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
- (transitive) 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
- (transitive) 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
- to pack a joint
- to pack the piston of a steam engine.
- pack someone's arm with ice.
- (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
Synonyms
- (To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly): stack
Antonyms
- (make into a pack): unpack
Derived terms
Thesaurus
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Etymology
From Middle English pak
Pronunciation
- IPA: /pæk/
- Rhymes: -æk
Translations
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Swedish
Noun
Pack n.
- a group of unwanted people, lower class people, trash
- stuff, things, luggage; only in the expression pick och pack
