
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 it in
send packing
Origin of pack
from uncertain or unknown; perhaps pact, but influenced, influence by packOrigin of pack
probably altered from pact, ultimately from Classical Latin pactus: see pact-pack
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
pack

(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.
(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.