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Definition of 'Pack' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) pack
a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, esp. one carried on the back of an animal or person.

2.  pack
a definite quantity or standard measure of merchandise together with its wrapping or package:
a pack of cigarettes.

3.  pack
the quantity of something that is packaged at one time or in one season:
last year's salmon pack.

4.  pack
a group of people or things:
a pack of lies.

5.  pack
a group of animals of the same kind, esp. predatory ones:
a pack of wolves.

6.  pack
a number of hounds used together in a hunt.

7.  pack
a set of playing cards; deck.

8.  pack
a wrapping of the body in wet or dry cloths for therapeutic purposes.

9.  pack
the cloths so used.

10.  pack
a pastelike substance used as a cosmetic restorative, esp. on the face.

11. (v.t.) pack
to make into a pack or bundle.

12.  pack
to form into a group or compact mass.

13.  pack
to fill with anything compactly arranged:
to pack a trunk.

14.  pack
to put into a case, trunk, etc., as for traveling or storage:
to pack clothes for a trip.

15.  pack
to press or crowd together within; cram:
The crowd packed the gallery.

16.  pack
to prepare for marketing by putting into packages.

17.  pack
to make airtight, vaportight, or watertight by stuffing:
to pack the engine.

18.  pack
to load, as with packs.

19.  pack
to carry or wear as part of one's usual equipment:
to pack a gun.

20.  pack
Informal. to be able to deliver:
to pack a mean punch.

21.  pack
to treat with a therapeutic pack.

22. (v.i.) pack
to pack goods in compact form, as for shipping.

23.  pack
to place clothes and personal items in a suitcase, trunk, etc., preparatory to traveling.

24.  pack
to adapt to compact storage or packing:
dresses that pack well.

25.  pack
to crowd together.

26.  pack
to become compacted:
Wet snow packs readily.

27.  pack
pack off or away, to send away with dispatch:
to pack the kids off to camp.

28. (adj.) pack
used in transporting a pack or load.

29.  pack
compressed into a pack; packed.

30.  pack
used in or adapted for packing.

31. (v.t.) pack
to choose, collect, arrange, or manipulate (cards, persons, facts, etc.) so as to serve one's own purposes:
to pack a jury.

Etymology:  (1520–30; perh. alter. of obs. v. der. of pact ,

Definition of 'Pack' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, pack
a large indefinite number
"a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"

2. (noun) pack
a complete collection of similar things

3. (noun) pack
a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)

4. (noun) gang, pack, ring, mob
an association of criminals
"police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

5. (noun) clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp
an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

6. (noun) pack
a group of hunting animals

7. (noun) pack, face pack
a cream that cleanses and tones the skin

8. (noun) pack
a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect

9. (verb) pack
a bundle (especially one carried on the back)

10. (verb) pack
arrange in a container
"pack the books into the boxes"

11. (verb) pack
fill to capacity
"This singer always packs the concert halls"; "The murder trial packed the court house"

12. (verb) pack, bundle, wad, compact
compress into a wad
"wad paper into the box"

13. (verb) pack
carry, as on one's back
"Pack your tents to the top of the mountain"

14. (verb) pack
set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome
"pack a jury"

15. (verb) carry, pack, take
have with oneself; have on one's person
"She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"

16. (verb) throng, mob, pack, pile, jam
press tightly together or cram
"The crowd packed the auditorium"

17. (verb) backpack, pack
hike with a backpack
"Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies"

18. (verb) tamp down, tamp, pack
press down tightly
"tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso"

19. (verb) pack
seal with packing
"pack the faucet"

20. (verb) compact, pack
have the property of being packable or of compacting easily
"This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

21. (verb) pack, load down
load with a pack

22. (verb) pack
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"


Definition of 'Pack' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (verb) pack
to put clothes in suitcases, or possessions in boxes in order to travel
She packed up everything she owned and left.; I'm packing for my trip tomorrow.

2.  pack
to fill a place completely
The singer's fans packed the stadium.; a bus packed with screaming kids

3.  pack
to put a product into its container to be sold
tuna packed in oil; a meat packing plant

4.  pack
to press a mass of sth tightly into a small space
Pack the brown sugar into the cup.; She packed the snow to make a snowball.

5. (noun) pack
a number of the same product sold as a unit
a pack of cigarettes; There are eighteen in each pack.; a pack of eighteen

6.  pack
six-pack/four-pack etc.
a product containing six/four etc. of the same item
two six-packs of soda/beer

7.  pack
a backpack
campers loading up their packs

8.  pack
a group of animals of the same type that live together
a pack of wolves

9.  pack
a group of people of the same type, who you disapprove of
a pack of liars/idiots

10.  pack
lead the pack
to be performing better than others doing similar things
Which state is leading the pack in wind technology?


Definition of 'Pack' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Pack
a pact

2. (noun) 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

3. (noun) Pack
a number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden

4. (noun) Pack
a number or quantity of connected or similar things

5. (noun) Pack
a full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack

6. (noun) Pack
a number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together

7. (noun) Pack
a number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves

8. (noun) Pack
a shook of cask staves

9. (noun) Pack
a bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously

10. (noun) Pack
a large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely

11. (noun) Pack
an envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment

12. (noun) Pack
a loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage

13. (noun) Pack
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; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish

14. (noun) Pack
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

15. (noun) Pack
to sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly

16. (noun) Pack
hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes

17. (noun) Pack
to contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot

18. (noun) Pack
to load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse

19. (noun) Pack
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

20. (noun) Pack
to transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts)

21. (noun) Pack
to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5

22. (noun) Pack
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; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine

23. (verb) Pack
to make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation

24. (verb) 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

25. (verb) Pack
to gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack

26. (verb) Pack
to depart in haste; -- generally with off or away

27. (verb) Pack
to unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion


Translation of 'Pack' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: things tied up together or put in a container, especially to be carried on one's back
He carried his luggage in a pack on his back.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: pak, sak Arabic flag Arabic: صُرَّة، حُزْمَه، رُزْمَه Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: пакет
Brazilian flag Brazilian: trouxa Czech flag Czech: ranec, tlumok German flag German: der Packen
Danish flag Danish: bylt Greek flag Greek: μπόγος, δέμα Spanish flag Spanish: fardo, bulto
Estonian flag Estonian: komps Farsi flag Farsi: بسته Finnish flag Finnish: pakkaus
French flag French: paquet, sac Hebrew flag Hebrew: אֲרִיזָה Hindi flag Hindi: पोटली
Croatian flag Croatian: svežanj, teret Hungarian flag Hungarian: csomag Indonesian flag Indonesian: bungkusan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: föggur, baggi; pakki Italian flag Italian: fagotto, sacca Japanese flag Japanese: 包み
Korean flag Korean: 포장한 짐 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: ryšulys, kuprinė Latvian flag Latvian: sainis; paka
Malay flag Malay: beg galas Dutch flag Dutch: pak Norwegian flag Norwegian: bylt, (rygg)sekk, kløv
Polish flag Polish: tłumok Persian flag Persian: بسته Pashto flag Pashto: ګۍډی
Portuguese flag Portuguese: trouxa Romanian flag Romanian: pachet, legătură Russian flag Russian: тюк; вьюк
Slovak flag Slovak: batoh, torba Slovenian flag Slovenian: sveženj Serbian flag Serbian: paket
Swedish flag Swedish: packe, knyte, bylte Thai flag Thai: หีบห่อ Turkish flag Turkish: denk, sırt çantası
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 包,包裹 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: в'язка, в'юк Urdu flag Urdu: گٹھري، بنڈل
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: ba lô Chinese flag Chinese: 包,包裹

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