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Definitions for Pack
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Pack.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, packnoun

    a large indefinite number

    "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions"

  2. packnoun

    a complete collection of similar things

  3. packnoun

    a convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film)

  4. gang, pack, ring, mobnoun

    an association of criminals

    "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

  5. clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, campnoun

    an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

  6. packnoun

    a group of hunting animals

  7. pack, face packnoun

    a cream that cleanses and tones the skin

  8. packnoun

    a sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect

  9. packverb

    a bundle (especially one carried on the back)

  10. packverb

    arrange in a container

    "pack the books into the boxes"

  11. packverb

    fill to capacity

    "This singer always packs the concert halls"; "The murder trial packed the court house"

  12. pack, bundle, wad, compactverb

    compress into a wad

    "wad paper into the box"

  13. packverb

    carry, as on one's back

    "Pack your tents to the top of the mountain"

  14. packverb

    set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome

    "pack a jury"

  15. carry, pack, takeverb

    have with oneself; have on one's person

    "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"

  16. throng, mob, pack, pile, jamverb

    press tightly together or cram

    "The crowd packed the auditorium"

  17. backpack, packverb

    hike with a backpack

    "Every summer they are backpacking in the Rockies"

  18. tamp down, tamp, packverb

    press down tightly

    "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso"

  19. packverb

    seal with packing

    "pack the faucet"

  20. compact, packverb

    have the property of being packable or of compacting easily

    "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"

  21. pack, load downverb

    load with a pack

  22. packverb

    treat the body or any part of it by wrapping it, as with blankets or sheets, and applying compresses to it, or stuffing it to provide cover, containment, or therapy, or to absorb blood

    "The nurse packed gauze in the wound"; "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"

GCIDE

  1. Packverb

    To shuffle, sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly; to stack (the deck).

Wiktionary

  1. packnoun

    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.

  2. packnoun

    A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.

    A pack of lies.

  3. packnoun

    A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.

  4. packnoun

    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.

  5. packnoun

    A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.

    2005, John D. Skinner and Christian T. Chimimba - The mammals of the southern African subregion

  6. packnoun

    A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang;

    a pack of thieves or knaves.

  7. packnoun

    A group of Cub Scouts.

  8. packnoun

    A shook of cask staves.

  9. packnoun

    A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.

  10. packverb

    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;

  11. packverb

    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,

  12. packverb

    To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.

  13. packverb

    To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result

    pack a jury or a causes.

  14. packverb

    To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.

  15. packverb

    To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber

    to pack a horse

  16. packverb

    To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off

    pack a boy off to school.

  17. packverb

    To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or animals).

  18. packverb

    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

  19. packnoun

    A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

    The ship had to sail round the pack of ice.

  20. packnoun

    An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.

  21. packnoun

    A loose, lewd, or worthless person.

  22. packnoun

    A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.

  23. packnoun

    The team on the field.

  24. packverb

    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

  25. packverb

    To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.

  26. packverb

    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.

  27. packverb

    To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.

  28. packverb

    To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.

  29. packverb

    To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

  30. packverb

    To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.

  31. packverb

    To block a shot, especially in basketball.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. PACKnoun

    Etymology: pack, Dutch.

    Themistocles said to the king of Persia, that speech was like cloth of Arras, opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery appears in figures; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. Francis Bacon, Essays 28.

    Had sly Ulysses at the sack
    Of Troy, brought thee his pedlar’s pack. John Cleveland.

    Our knight did bear no less a pack
    Of his own buttocks on his back. Hudibras, p. i.

    I rather chose
    To cross my friend in his intended drift,
    Than, by concealing it, heap on your head
    A pack of sorrows. William Shakespeare, Merch. of Ven.

    But when they took notice how stupid a beast it was, they loaded it with packs and burdens, and set boys upon the back of it. Roger L'Estrange.

    Women to cards may be compar’d, we play
    A round or two, when us’d we throw away,
    Take a fresh pack. George Granville.

    It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards. Addis.

    Two ghosts join their packs to hunt her o’er the plain. Dryd.

    The fury fires the pack; they snuff, they vent,
    And feed their hungry nostrils with the scent. Dryden.

    The savage soul of game is up at once,
    The pack full-opening various. James Thomson, Summer.

    You panderly rascals! there’s a knot, a gang, a pack, a conspiracy, against me. William Shakespeare, Mer. W. of Wind.

    Never such a pack of knaves and villains, as they who now governed in the parliament. Edward Hyde.

    Bickerstaff is more a man of honour, than to be an accomplice with a pack of rascals that walk the streets on nights. Jonathan Swift.

  2. To Packverb

    Etymology: packen, Dutch.

    A poor merchant driven on unknown land,
    That had by chance pack’d up his choicest treasure
    In one dear casket, and sav’d only that. Thomas Otway.

    Resolv’d for sea, the slaves thy baggage pack,
    Each saddled with his burden on his back. Dryden.

    What we looked upon as brains, were an heap of strange materials, packed up with wonderful art in the skull. Addison.

    He cannot live, I hope, and must not die,
    Till George be pack’d with post horse up to heav’n. William Shakespeare.

    Enos has
    Packt cards with Cæsar, and false play’d. William Shakespeare.

    There be that can pack cards and yet cannot play well; so there are some that are good in canvasses and factions, that are otherwise weak men. Francis Bacon, Essays, №. 23.

    The judge shall jobb, the bishop bite the town,
    And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown. Alexander Pope.

    When they have pack’d a parliament,
    Will once more try th’ expedient:
    Who can already muster friends,
    To serve for members to our ends. Hudibras.

    Brutes, called men, in full cry pack’d by the court or country, run down in the house of commons, a deserted horned beast of the court. William Wycherley.

    So many greater fools than they,
    Will pack a crowded audience the third day. Thomas Southerne.

    The expected council was dwindling into a conventicle; a pack’d assembly of Italian bishops, not a free convention of fathers from all quarters. Francis Atterbury.

  3. To Packverb

    The marigold, whose courtier’s face
    Ecchoes the sun, and doth unlace
    Her at his rise, at his full stop
    Packs and shuts up her gaudy shop. John Cleveland.

    New farmer thinketh each hour a day,
    Until the old farmer be packing away. Thomas Tusser, Husb.

    Rogues, hence, avaunt!
    Seek shelter, pack. William Shakespeare, M. W. of Wind.

    The wind no sooner came good, but away pack the gallies with all the haste they could. Carew.

    A thief kindled his torch at Jupiter’s altar, and then robbed the temple: as he was packing away with his sacrilegious burden, a voice pursued him. Roger L'Estrange.

    If they had been an hundred more, they had been all sent packing with the same answer. Edward Stillingfleet.

    Pack hence, and from the cover’d benches rise,
    This is no place for you. Dryden.

    Poor Stella must pack off to town,
    From purling streams and fountains bubbling,
    To Liffy’s stinking tide at Dublin. Jonathan Swift.

    That this so profitable a merchandize, riseth not to a proportionable enhauncement with other less beneficial commodities, they impute partly to the eastern buyers packing, partly to the owners not venting the same. Carew.

    Go pack with him. William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus.

ChatGPT

  1. pack

    A pack can be defined as a collection or group of something, often of a similar or related nature, bundled together. It can refer to items, animals, or even a collective term for people. Pack can also refer to the act of putting things away in containers or bags, typically prior to traveling or storage.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Packnoun

    a pact

  2. Packnoun

    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

  3. Packnoun

    a number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden

  4. Packnoun

    a number or quantity of connected or similar things

  5. Packnoun

    a full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack

  6. Packnoun

    a number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together

  7. Packnoun

    a number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves

  8. Packnoun

    a shook of cask staves

  9. Packnoun

    a bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously

  10. Packnoun

    a large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely

  11. Packnoun

    an envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment

  12. Packnoun

    a loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage

  13. Packnoun

    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; as to pack goods in a box; to pack fish

  14. Packnoun

    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

  15. Packnoun

    to sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly

  16. Packnoun

    hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes

  17. Packnoun

    to contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot

  18. Packnoun

    to load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse

  19. Packnoun

    to cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; esp., to send away peremptorily or suddenly; -- sometimes with off; as, to pack a boy off to school

  20. Packnoun

    to transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts)

  21. Packnoun

    to envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5

  22. Packnoun

    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; as, to pack a joint; to pack the piston of a steam engine

  23. Packverb

    to make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation

  24. Packverb

    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

  25. Packverb

    to gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack

  26. Packverb

    to depart in haste; -- generally with off or away

  27. Packverb

    to unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion

  28. Etymology: [Cf. Pact.]

Wikidata

  1. Pack

    Pack is a social group of conspecific canids. Not all species of canids - notably the red fox - form packs. Pack size and social behaviour within packs varies across species.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Pack

    pak, n. a bundle made to be carried on the back: a collection, stock, or store: a bundle of some particular kind or quantity, as of wool, 480 or 240 lb.: the quantity of fish packed: a complete set of cards: a number of animals herding together or kept together for hunting: a number of persons combined for bad purposes: any great number: a large extent of floating and broken ice: a wet sheet for folding round the body to allay inflammation, fever, &c.—v.t. to press together and fasten up: to place in order: to crowd: to assort, bring together, select, or manipulate persons, cards, &c. for some unjust object: to send away, as from one's presence or employment: to surround a joint, &c., with any substance to prevent leaking, &c.—v.i. to store things away anywhere for safe keeping, &c.: to settle into a firm mass: to admit of being put into compact shape: to depart in haste.—ns. Pack′age, the act of packing, also something packed: a bundle or bale: a charge made for packing; Pack′-an′imal, a beast of burden used to carry goods on its back; Pack′-cinch (-sinsh), a wide girth of canvas, &c., having a hook and ring attached for adjusting the load of a pack-animal; Pack′-cloth, a cloth in which goods are tied up: packsheet; Pack′er, one who packs: one who cures and packs provisions: any device to fill the space between the tubing and the sides of an oil-well, &c.; Pack′et, a small package: a ship or vessel employed in carrying packets of letters, passengers, &c.: a vessel plying regularly between one port and another (also Pack′et-boat, Pack′et-ship, &c.).—v.t. to bind in a packet or parcel: to send in a packet.—ns. Pack′et-day, the day of the departure or arrival of a mail-ship; Pack′et-note (see Note-paper); Pack′-horse, a horse used to carry goods in panniers: a drudge; Pack′-ice, a collection of large pieces of floating ice; Pack′ing, the act of putting into packs or of tying up for carriage: material for packing: anything used to fill an empty space, or to make a joint close, as the elastic ring round a moving rod or piston to make it a tight fit; Pack′ing-box, -case, a box in which goods are packed: a hollow place round the opening of a steam cylinder, filled with some soft substance which, being pressed hard against the piston-rod, makes it a tight fit; Pack′ing-need′le, or Sack-needle, a strong needle for sewing up packages; Pack′ing-pā′per, a strong and thick kind of wrapping-paper; Pack′ing-press, a press for squeezing goods into small compass for packing; Pack′ing-sheet, or Pack′sheet, coarse cloth for packing goods; Pack′-load, the load an animal can carry on its back; Pack′man, a peddler or a man who carries a pack; Pack′-mule, a mule used for carrying burdens; Pack′-sadd′le, a saddle for packs or burdens; Pack′-thread, a coarse thread used to sew up packages; Pack′-train, a train of loaded pack-animals; Pack′way, a narrow path fit for pack-horses.—Pack a jury, meeting, &c., to fill up with persons of a particular kind for one's own purposes.—Send one packing, to dismiss summarily. [Prob. Celt.; Gael. and Ir. pac, Bret. pak, a bundle; cf. Ger. pack, Dut. pak.]

  2. Pack

    pak, adj. (Scot.) intimate, confidential.

Rap Dictionary

  1. packverb

    To carry something on your person especially a firearm, as in 'packing heat' ---- "Got them 17 round glocks at your ass spitting like loogies We packing heat, 32 round clips, my automatic uzi" -- Master P (Never Ending Game)

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PACK

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pack is ranked #1932 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Pack surname appeared 18,678 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 6 would have the surname Pack.

    83.1% or 15,529 total occurrences were White.
    10.2% or 1,918 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 450 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.7% or 318 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.5% or 290 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.9% or 172 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Pack' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3934

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Pack' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2457

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Pack' in Nouns Frequency: #1323

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Pack' in Verbs Frequency: #542

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Pack in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Pack in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Pack in a Sentence

  1. Joey Bishop:

    He would always stand up for Frank, he was just frustrated that he was seen as an extra component of The Rat Pack Pack. Whenever people talked about The Rat Pack Pack, The Rat Pack was always Frank, Martin Mills/Getty Images and Sammy Davis Jr.. He was somehow forgotten.

  2. Scott Erdman:

    It gets a little exhausting, but it’s like you don’t have an option— I can pack it in or I can go for it. I wasn’t going to pack it in.

  3. Staff Sgt. Raven Barbieri:

    They want to know how to run faster, they ask, ‘How do I pack my ruck better?’.

  4. Jim Kotch:

    All of the profits from the Brewing the American Dream collaboration pack go in to … fund more loans for more small business all across the U.S., what’s really important is the pride and all the energy and hard work that small business have to put in to what they are doing just to be able to survive and hopefully prosper.

  5. Heidi Cruz:

    A person who, when I'm really busy running around the house the other day to pack, when he had a lot more on his plate, sat down and packed my suitcase for me.

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