pack
See also: Pack
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pæk/, [pʰæk]
- Rhymes: -æk
Etymology 1
From Middle English pak, pakke, from Old English *pæcca and/or Middle Dutch pak, packe; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *pakkô (“bundle, pack”). Cognate with Dutch pak (“pack”), Low German Pack (“pack”), German Pack (“pack”), Swedish packe (“pack”), Icelandic pakka, pakki (“package”).
Noun
pack (plural packs)
- 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
- The horses carried the packs across the plain.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
- a multitude.
- 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; also, the assortment used in a particular game
- 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 wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting 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.
Synonyms
(full set of cards): deck
Derived terms
Terms derived from pack (noun)
Translations
bundle to be carried
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full set of playing cards
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group of dogs
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group of wolves — see wolfpack
Etymology 2
From Middle English pakken, from the noun (see above). Compare Middle Dutch packen (“to pack”), Middle Low German packen (“to pack”).
Verb
pack (third-person singular simple present packs, present participle packing, simple past and past participle packed)
- (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
- (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.
- to pack goods in a box; to pack fish
- (Can we date this quote?) Joseph Addison
- strange materials packed up with wonderful art
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Where, for these many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed
- (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.
- to pack a trunk; the play, or the audience, packs the theater
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 5, in Death on the Centre Court:
- 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.
- (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.
- the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well
- (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools.
- the grouse or the perch begin to pack
- (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
- (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.
- (social) To cheat, to arrange matters unfairly.
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope
- Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope
- (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
- to pack a jury
- (Can we date this quote?) Francis Atterbury
- The expected council was dwindling into […] a packed assembly of Italian bishops.
- (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Fuller
- He lost life […] upon a nice point subtilely devised and packed by his enemies.
- (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Fuller
- (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 1
- 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.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 5 Scene 1
- (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
- (transitive) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber.
- to pack a horse
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
- To move, send or carry.
- (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.
- to pack a boy off to school
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
- (transitive, US, Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
- (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift
- Poor Stella must pack off to town.
- (Can we date this quote?) Alfred Tennyson
- You shall pack, / And never more darken my doors again.
- (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift
- (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (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.
- (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
- (intransitive, LGBT slang, of a drag king, transman, etc.) To wear a prosthetic penis inside one’s trousers for better verisimilitude.
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
terms derived from pack (verb)
Translations
to put things together for storage or transporting
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to make a pack
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to fill in the manner of a pack
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to stow away within
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pak/
Middle English
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpak/
Swedish
Noun
pack n
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