packet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English pacquet; either from Middle French pacquet, or formed independently from pak and -et.
Inflected forms:
form: packets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pacquet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: packets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: packeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: packeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: packeted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pacquet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel
pos: noun
examples: Don't throw the crisp packet on the floor!
a packet of letters
a packet of biscuits
(archaic) a travel bag containing clothing, nightwear and other accessories.
gloss: Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat. Packet boat, ship, vessel (Wikipedia).
pos: noun
examples: With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility.
Fishguard Harbour, constructed some 60 years ago by the G.W.R., became the packet port for G.W.R. services to Waterford and Rosslare - the latter port itself was a new venture partly under G.W.R. auspices - and to Cork.
gloss: A specimen envelope containing small, dried plants or containing parts of plants when attached to a larger sheet.
pos: noun
examples: With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…].
gloss: A small fragment of data as transmitted on some types of network, notably Ethernet networks (Wikipedia).
pos: noun
gloss: A protocol data unit of the Internet Protocol.
pos: noun
gloss: A message sent over a transport layer protocol.
pos: noun
examples: The Minecraft server accepts connections from TCP clients and communicates with them using packets. A packet is a sequence of bytes sent over the TCP connection.
gloss: A plastic bag.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
examples: 2012 August 6, Wendy Knowler, Plastic packets: who bags the profits?
gloss: Synonym of package (“male genitalia”).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A sleeping, silver-haired man, probably about fifty, couldn’t close his legs because of the size of his packet.
gloss: A large amount of money.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: It'll cost a packet to fix this.
gloss: To make up into a packet or bundle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [H]er husband / VVas packetted to France, to ſtudy courtſhip, / Under forſooth a colour of employment, / Employment, yea of honour.
gloss: To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To subject to a denial-of-service attack in which a large number of data packets are sent.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: 2007, Committee on Improving Cybersecurity Research in the United States, Toward a Safer and More Secure Cyberspace
Typically, one hacker will annoy another; the offended party replies by launching a denial-of-service attack against the offender. These attacks—known as packeting—tend to be of limited duration […]
Related words: datagram
packetlike
packet radio
packet switching
packet-switching
Derived words: antipacket
book packet
catch a packet
Christmas tree packet
fag packet
interpacket
intrapacket
magic packet
Martian packet
micropacket
multipacket
packet boat
packet-boat
packetful
packetize
packet loss
packet sniffer
packet station
packet-switched
packet tracer
pay packet
penny packet
radgepacket
red packet
small packet
steam-packet
subpacket
wage packet
wave packet
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