A girl packs for a hiking trip.
- The definition of a pack is a container for something to be carried or stored.
An example of pack is a bag in which you'd put all your essentials for a long distance hiking trip.
- Pack is defined as to put things together for storage or for moving from one place to another.
- An example of to pack is putting collectibles in a box to be stored away.
- An example of to pack is putting your child's lunch in a lunch box for them to take to school.
- An example of to pack is placing what you'll need for a weekend trip in a piece of luggage.
pack
- a large bundle of things wrapped or tied up for carrying, as on the back of a person or animal; load
- a container in which something may be stored compactly: parachute pack
- a number of similar or related persons or things; specif.,
- a group or collection: a pack of lies
- a package of a standard number: a pack of cigarettes
- film pack
- a set of playing cards; deck
- a set of hunting hounds
- a number of wild animals living and hunting together
- a united group; gang; set
- a unit of Cub Scouts or Brownies under an adult leader
- ice pack
- treatment by wrapping a patient in blankets or sheets that are wet or dry and hot or cold
- the blankets or sheets used
- any of various cosmetic pastes applied to the skin and left to dry: mudpack
- the amount of food put in cans, etc. in a season or year
- a method of packing or canning: cold pack
Origin of pack
Middle English pakke from Middle Dutch pak from Middle Flemish pac: term carried throughout Europe via the Low Countries' wool trade (as in French pacque, Italian pacco, Irish pac, Medieval Latin paccus)- to make a pack, or bundle, of
- to put together compactly in a box, trunk, etc. for carrying or storing
- to fill (a box, bag, trunk, etc.) for carrying or storing
- to put (food) in (cans, boxes, etc.) for preservation or sale
- to package or carry for the purpose of eating away from home: to pack a lunch for school
- to fill closely; crowd; cram: a hall packed with people
- to crowd or press (people) together
- to fill in or surround tightly for protection, prevention of leaks, etc.: to pack valves
- to press together firmly: packed earth
- to load (an animal) with a pack
- to carry (goods, equipment, etc.) in or as in a pack: said of an animal
- to treat with a pack (noun)
- to send (off), usually in haste: to pack a boy off to school
- Slang to wear or carry (a gun, etc.), esp. habitually
- Slang
- to be able to deliver (a blow, punch, etc.) with force
- to provide or contain: a play that packs a message
Origin of pack
ME pakken- to make up packs
- to put one's clothes, belongings, etc. into luggage for a trip: an hour in which to pack
- to press, crowd, or throng together in a small space
- to admit of being folded compactly, put in a container, etc.: a suit that packs well
- to settle into a compact or solid mass
- to go away in haste: sometimes with off
- used in packing
- suitable for packing
- formed in a pack or packs
- used for carrying packs, loads, etc.: a pack animal
pack Idioms
pack it in
Slang to give up or stop trying, as in discouragement
send packing
Informal to dismiss (a person) abruptly
to choose or arrange (a jury, court, etc.) in such a way as to get desired decisions, results, etc.
Origin of pack
from uncertain or unknown; perhaps pact, but influenced, influence by packScot. closely acquainted; intimate
Origin of pack
probably altered from pact, ultimately from Classical Latin pactus: see pact-pack
a package of (a specified number of) cans or bottles, as of beer
pack
noun
- a. A collection of items tied up or wrapped; a bundle.b. A container made to be carried on the body of a person or animal.
- The amount, as of food, that is processed and packaged at one time or in one season.
- A small package containing a standard number of identical or similar items: a pack of matches.
- a. A complete set of related items: a pack of cards.b. Informal A large amount; a heap: earned a pack of money.
- a. A group of animals, such as dogs or wolves, that run and hunt together.b. A gang of people: a pack of hoodlums.c. An organized troop having common interests: a Cub Scout pack.
- A mass of large pieces of floating ice driven together.
- Medicine a. Material, such as towels, sheets, or blankets that are used to swathe a patient or body part.b. A material, such as gauze, that is therapeutically inserted into a body cavity or wound.
- a. An ice pack used to reduce pain and inflammation.b. A cold pack.c. A hot pack.
- A cosmetic paste that is applied to the skin, allowed to dry, and then rinsed off.
verb
packed, pack·ing, packsverb
transitive- To fold, roll, or combine into a bundle; wrap up.
- a. To put into a receptacle for transporting or storing: pack one's belongings.b. To fill up with items: pack one's trunk.
- To process and put into containers in order to preserve, transport, or sell: packed the fruit in jars.
- a. To bring together (persons or things) closely; crowd together: managed to pack 300 students into the lecture hall.b. To fill up tight; cram.
- Medicine a. To wrap (a patient) in a pack.b. To insert a pack into (a body cavity or wound).
- To wrap tightly for protection or to prevent leakage: pack a valve stem.
- To press together; compact firmly: packed the clay and straw into bricks.
- Informal To carry, deliver, or have available for action: a thug who packed a pistol; a fighter who packs a hard punch.
- To send unceremoniously: The parents packed both children off to bed.
- To constitute (a voting panel) by appointment, selection, or arrangement in such a way that it is favorable to one's purposes or point of view; rig: “In 1937 Roosevelt threatened to pack the court” ( New Republic )
verb
intransitive- To place one's belongings in boxes or luggage for transporting or storing.
- To be susceptible of compact storage: Dishes pack more easily than glasses.
- To form lumps or masses; become compacted.
Origin of pack
Middle English pak possibly of Low German originRelated Forms:
- pack′a·bil′i·ty
noun
- pack′a·ble
adjective
noun
Variant of pac
pack
Noun
(plural packs)
- 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.
- The horses carried the packs across the plain.
- A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
- A pack of lies.
- 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; as, a euchre pack.
- We were going to play cards, but nobody brought a pack.
- A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
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- African wild dogs hunt by sight, although stragglers use their noses to follow the pack.
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- 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.
- 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.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present packs, present participle packing, simple past and past participle packed)
- 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
- 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.
- (card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
- To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result.
- to pack a jury
- To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
- To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber
- to pack a horse
- 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
- (US, Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).
- 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
- 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; as, the goods pack conveniently; wet snow packs well.
- (intransitive) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
- (intransitive) To depart in haste; - generally with off or away.
- (intransitive) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.
- (slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
- (sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.
pack - Computer Definition
(1) To compress data in order to save space. Unpack refers to decompressing data. See data compression.
(2) An instruction that converts a decimal number into a packed decimal format. Unpack converts a packed decimal number into decimal.
(3) In database programs, a command that removes records that have been marked for deletion.
