pack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
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Etymology: From Middle English pak, pakke, from Old English *pæcca and/or Middle Dutch pak, packe; both ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *pakkō, 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: packs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: packs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: packing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: packed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: packed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The horses carried the packs across the plain.
We do not ask him to make up his mind, but to make up his pack.
gloss: A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
pos: noun
gloss: A multitude.
pos: noun
examples: a pack of lies
a pack of complaints
gloss: A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
pos: noun
gloss: A full set of playing cards
pos: noun
examples: We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
gloss: The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.
pos: noun
examples: cut the pack
gloss: A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
pos: noun
examples: African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.
gloss: A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A flock of knots.
pos: noun
examples: They form extremely tight flocks, which carpet the ground, giving rise to the descriptive name of "a pack" of knots.
gloss: A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
pos: noun
examples: a pack of thieves
"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.
gloss: A group of Cub Scouts.
pos: noun
gloss: A shook of cask staves.
pos: noun
gloss: A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
pos: noun
gloss: A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
pos: noun
examples: The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.
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 […]
gloss: An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
pos: noun
gloss: A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That stupid pack did nothing but stare at us throughout the whole project.
gloss: A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
pos: noun
gloss: The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
pos: noun
gloss: A package of cigarettes.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: “Carlo, I told you that three packs a day would kill you long before I was gone.”
gloss: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: 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
Where, for these many hundred years, the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed
gloss: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: to pack a trunk;  the play, or the audience, packs the theater
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.
gloss: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: The doctor gave Kelly some sulfa pills and packed his arm in hot-water bags.
gloss: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
examples: to pack a joint;  to pack the piston of a steam engine;  pack someone's arm with ice.
gloss: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
physical
gloss: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
physical
examples: the goods pack conveniently;  wet snow packs well
gloss: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
physical
examples: the grouse or the perch begin to pack
gloss: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
pos: verb
tags: historical
physical
transitive
gloss: To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport.
pos: verb
tags: physical
transitive
gloss: To cheat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown.
gloss: To cheat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pack a jury
The expected council was dwindling into[…]a packed assembly of Italian bishops.
gloss: To cheat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cheat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To load with a pack.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pack a horse
gloss: To load; to encumber.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey
gloss: To move, send or carry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pack a boy off to school
Till George be packed with post horse up to heaven.
gloss: To move, send or carry.
pos: verb
tags: US
Western
transitive
gloss: To move, send or carry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Poor Stella must pack off to town.
You shall pack, / And never more darken my doors again.
gloss: To move, send or carry.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: packing heat
A: What was he packing? B: He was packing an M1911 with a custom large-capacity magazine.
gloss: To move, send or carry.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Wow, get a load of him — he's packing.
gloss: To move, send or carry.
pos: verb
tags: especially
intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To block a shot, especially in basketball.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
gloss: To play together cohesively, specially with reference to technique in the scrum.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Antonyms: unpack
Derived words: ahead of the pack
airpack
artpack
backpack
bagpack
battery pack
beltpack
bipack
blister pack
bobbery pack
bodypack
body pack
booster pack
bowl pack
brick pack
brickpack
bubble pack
buddy pack
case pack
cold pack
coursepack
daypack
day pack
digipak
disk pack
doublepack
Duluth pack
dye pack
eight pack
eight-pack
expansion pack
face pack
fanny pack
flash pack
flat pack
flatpack
forepack
framepack
froth pack
fun pack
giftpack
glasspack
halal snack pack
hardpack
haul-pack truck
hip pack
hosepack
hoverpack
ice pack
jam-pack
jet pack
jetpack
jet-pack
joker in the pack
mailpack
manpack
megapack
midpack
minipack
mod pack
modpack
mudpack
multipack
naughty-pack
overpack
pack animal
pack-away
packboard
packcloth
packery
pack horse
packhorse
pack-horse
packhound
pack hound
packhouse
pack ice
pack-in
pack journalism
pack journalist
packless
packlike
pack lunch
packmaker
packmaking
packman
packmate
pack mentality
pack of cards
pack of lies
packraft
pack rat
pack-rat
packsack
packsaddle
packsheet
pack-shepherd
packshot
packstaff
packstone
packthread
pack train
pack-train
pack-up
pack-up kit
packware
packway
packyear
pack-year
pack year
photo pack
piddle pack
portage pack
power pack
prepack
presspack
press pack
RAM pack
ram-pack
rat pack
retropack
rocket pack
rocket-pack
samplepack
scene pack
service pack
six pack
six-pack
six-pack bezique
six-pack of rolls
smoke the whole pack
snowpack
starter pack
stim pack
subpack
tripack
vac pack
vacuum pack
wet pack
wolf-pack
wolf pack
woolpack
X-pack
copack
depack
mispack
packability
packable
pack a lunch
pack and play
pack a punch
pack a sad
pack a wallop
pack away
packer
pack fudge
pack heat
pack in
pack off
pack on
pack one's bags
pack on pounds
pack on the pounds
pack out
pack shit
pack up
pick and pack
repack
stack-and-pack
underpack
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: وَضَّبَ
roman: waḍḍaba
lang: Arabic
word: حَزَمَ
roman: ḥazama
lang: Armenian
word: փաթեթավորել
roman: pʻatʻetʻavorel
lang: Belarusian
word: упако́ўваць
roman: upakówvacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: пакава́ць
roman: pakavácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: упакава́ць
roman: upakavácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: спако́ўваць
roman: spakówvacʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: спакава́ць
roman: spakavácʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: опако́вам
roman: opakóvam
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 包裝 /包装
roman: bāozhuāng
lang: Dutch
word: inpakken
lang: Finnish
word: pakata
lang: French
word: emballer
lang: German
word: packen
lang: German
word: einpacken
lang: German
word: verpacken
lang: Japanese
word: 詰める
roman: tsumeru
lang: Japanese
word: 包む
roman: tsutsumu
lang: Japanese
word: 包装する
roman: hōsō suru
lang: Korean
word: 싸다
roman: ssada
lang: Korean
word: 꾸리다
roman: kkurida
lang: Korean
word: 챙기다
roman: chaenggida
lang: Latin
word: convāsō
lang: Lithuanian
word: pakuoti
lang: Māori
word: tāhere
lang: Māori
word: whakamātā
lang: Polish
word: pakować
lang: Polish
word: spakować
lang: Polish
word: zapakowywać
lang: Polish
word: zapakować
lang: Russian
word: упако́вывать
roman: upakóvyvatʹ
lang: Russian
word: пакова́ть
roman: pakovátʹ
lang: Russian
word: упакова́ть
roman: upakovátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: empacar
lang: Thai
word: ห่อ
roman: hɔ̀ɔ
lang: Ukrainian
word: упако́вувати
roman: upakóvuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: пакува́ти
roman: pakuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: упакува́ти
roman: upakuváty
lang: Ukrainian
word: спако́вувати
roman: spakóvuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: спакува́ти
roman: spakuváty
lang: Vietnamese
word: gói