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Pack   /pæk/   Listen
Pack

noun
1.
A large indefinite number.  Synonyms: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality.  "A multitude of TV antennas" , "A plurality of religions"
2.
A complete collection of similar things.
3.
A convenient package or parcel (as of cigarettes or film).
4.
An association of criminals.  Synonyms: gang, mob, ring.  "A pack of thieves"
5.
An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose.  Synonyms: camp, clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle.
6.
A group of hunting animals.
7.
A cream that cleanses and tones the skin.  Synonym: face pack.
8.
A sheet or blanket (either dry or wet) to wrap around the body for its therapeutic effect.
9.
A bundle (especially one carried on the back).
verb
(past & past part. packed; pres. part. packing)
1.
Arrange in a container.  Antonym: unpack.
2.
Fill to capacity.  "The murder trial packed the court house"
3.
Compress into a wad.  Synonyms: bundle, compact, wad.
4.
Carry, as on one's back.
5.
Set up a committee or legislative body with one's own supporters so as to influence the outcome.
6.
Have with oneself; have on one's person.  Synonyms: carry, take.  "I always carry money" , "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains"
7.
Press tightly together or cram.  Synonyms: jam, mob, pile, throng.
8.
Hike with a backpack.  Synonym: backpack.
9.
Press down tightly.  Synonyms: tamp, tamp down.
10.
Seal with packing.
11.
Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily.  Synonym: compact.  "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"
12.
Load with a pack.  Synonym: load down.
13.
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.  "You had better pack your swollen ankle with ice"



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"Pack" Quotes from Famous Books



... that switch. He had felt as though an invisible ocean had been poured on him, weighting him down intolerably. To move arms or legs required enormous effort; and to get up on his feet again was like rising under a two-hundred-pound pack. ...
— The Red Hell of Jupiter • Paul Ernst
... not going to eat any luncheon, Peter," she said, "I must trouble you to help me to wash up and pack the basket. The fire is out and the water is cold, but it can't be helped. The picnic ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... they would have a hard fight with the remaining wolves, but evidently the pack had had enough of the encounter, for those that were wounded limped off growling savagely and the others followed, leaving the dead ...
— Young Hunters of the Lake • Ralph Bonehill
... coverlets on the beds, on which were painted nets, men in ambush with hunting-poles, and whatever appertained to hunting: Nor could we yet tell what to make of it: when we heard a great cry without, and a pack of beagles came and ran round the table, and after them a large trey, on which was a boar of the first magnitude, with a cap on his head, (such as slaves at their making free, had set on theirs in token of liberties) on his tusks hung two wicker baskets, the one full of ...
— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter
... of a thing for a man to pack," the giant bully cried nastily, "and it's a hell of a lady that gives it ...
— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman


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