package
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæ.kɪd͡ʒ/
note: Indic
ipa: /pa.ked͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ækɪd͡ʒ
Forms: form: packages
form: pakige
Etymology: Equivalent to pack + -age. Possibly influenced by Anglo-Latin paccagium or Old French pacquage.
Senses: examples: text: A dirty package was left in my home.
glosses: Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope.
examples: text: Did you test the software package to ensure completeness?
text: It’s now created a system where creators should be afraid to make a series that dares to end on a cliffhanger or save anything for future seasons, lest their story forever be left unfinished. And viewers are afraid to commit to any show that isn’t a completely aired package lest they spend 10-30 hours on something that ends up unresolved, which has happened dozens and dozens of times, creating a vast “show graveyard” within Netflix.
ref: 2023 January 17, Paul Tassi, “Netflix Has Created A Self-Fulfilling Cancelation Loop With Its New Shows”, in Forbes:
glosses: Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed with a package manager.
examples: text: for, it has often happened that, without any accident at ſea, heavy averages, owing to bad package and ſtowage only, have been demanded, and paid by inſurers
ref: 1781, A Complete Digest of the Theory, Laws, and Practice of Insurance, page 106:
text: The Company's instructions to the supracargoes of their ships are very particular as to the mode of package and stowage.
ref: 1813, William Milburn, Oriental Commerce: Containing a Geographical Description of the Principal Places in the East Indies, China, and Japan, with Their Produce, Manufactures, and Trade, Including the Coasting Or Country Trade from Port to Port: also the Rise and Progress of the Trade of the Various European Nations with the Eastern World, Particularly that of the English East India Company from the Discovery of the Passage Round the Cape of Good Hope to the Present Period: with an Account of the Company's Establishments, volume II, London: Black, Parry, and Co., page 533:
text: But we see more; we see a very curious and artificial arrangement of the fibres very much contributing to facilitate their package, and by which they mutually support one another and act with the greatest advantage.
ref: 1849, “TONGUE”, in Robert Bentley Todd, editor, The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology, volume IV, London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row, pages 1127/2-1128/1, column 2:
glosses: The act of packing something.
glosses: Something resembling a package.
glosses: A package holiday.
examples: text: the "dime" defensive package
text: For third and short, they're going to bring in their jumbo package.
glosses: A football formation.
examples: text: The women usually wore bikini tops with shorts, swimsuits underneath cover-ups or just swimsuits. Men came in various types of trunks, from traditional boxers, to Speedos, to G-string trunks that showcased their packages.
ref: 2013, Velvet Carter, Blissfully Yours, page 93:
glosses: The male genitalia.
glosses: A charge made for packing goods.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A group of related stories spread over several pages.
examples: text: Attend a news conference, and prepare a wrap or package.
ref: 2005, Ted White, Broadcast News: Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 245:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: Synonym of wrap (“complete news report ready for broadcast”).
synonyms: word: wrap
extra: complete news report ready for broadcast
Derived terms: care package
complete package
metapackage
multipackage
nanopackage
original package doctrine
package deal
package film
package format
package leaflet
package management system
package saver
package store
package tour
physics package
red package
retropackage
service design package
software package
subpackage
superpackage
total package
whole package