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ALL meanings of pack

pack
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  • noun pack a group of things wrapped or tied together for easy handling or carrying; a bundle, especially one to be carried on the back of an animal or a person: a mule pack; a hiker's pack. 1
  • noun pack a definite quantity or standard measure of something wrapped up or otherwise assembled for merchandising (sometimes used in combination): a pack of cigarettes; a six-pack of beer. 1
  • noun pack the quantity of something that is packaged, canned, or the like, at one time, in one season, etc.: last year's salmon pack. 1
  • noun pack a group of people or things: a pack of fools; a pack of lies. 1
  • noun pack a group of certain animals of the same kind, especially predatory ones: a pack of wolves. 1
  • noun pack Hunting. a number of hounds, especially foxhounds and beagles, regularly used together in a hunt. 1
  • noun pack a complete set of playing cards, usually 52 in number; deck. 1
  • noun pack backpack. 1
  • noun pack a considerable area of pieces of floating ice driven or packed together. 1
  • noun pack Metalworking. a pile of metal sheets for hot-rolling together. 1
  • noun pack Medicine/Medical. a wrapping of the body in wet or dry clothes for therapeutic purposes. the cloths so used. Obsolete. the state of being so wrapped. 1
  • noun pack Mining. Also called pack wall. a rubble wall for supporting a roof. any of various other roof supports of timber, timber and rubble, or rubble and wire mesh. 1
  • noun pack a cosmetic material, usually of a pastelike consistency, applied either to the face or to the hair and scalp: a mud pack; a beauty pack; a henna pack. 1
  • noun pack pac2 (def 1). 1
  • noun pack Obsolete. a plot; conspiracy. 1
  • noun pack Obsolete. a low or worthless person. 1
  • verb with object pack to choose, collect, arrange, or manipulate (cards, persons, facts, etc.) so as to serve one's own purposes: to pack the deck; to pack a jury. 1
  • verb without object pack to pack goods in compact form, as for transportation or storage (often followed by up). 1
  • verb without object pack to place clothes and personal items in a suitcase, trunk, etc., preparatory to traveling. 1
  • verb without object pack to be capable of or suitable for compact storage or packing for transportation: articles that pack well. 1
  • verb without object pack to crowd together, as persons: The audience packed into the auditorium. 1
  • verb without object pack to become compacted: Wet snow packs readily. 1
  • verb without object pack to collect into a group: The grouse began to pack. 1
  • adjective pack Scot. very friendly or intimate. 1
  • idioms pack pack it in, to give up; abandon one's efforts: In 1972 we packed it in and moved back to Florida. to cease being a nuisance. 1
  • transitive verb pack wrap for shipment 1
  • transitive verb pack fill: suitcase, bag 1
  • transitive verb pack put in luggage 1
  • intransitive verb pack fill suitcase, bag 1
  • noun pack bundle, package 1
  • noun pack rucksack 1
  • noun pack group of wolves 1
  • noun pack group of dogs 1
  • noun pack batch, group 1
  • noun pack set of playing cards 1
  • noun pack people: band 1
  • noun pack book, box: of matches 1
  • noun pack packet: of cigarettes 1
  • intransitive verb pack wrap packages for shipment 1
  • transitive verb pack fit, cram 1
  • transitive verb pack cram together 1
  • transitive verb pack wrap up 1
  • transitive verb pack fill with partisans 1
  • transitive verb pack compact, compress 1
  • transitive verb pack load into a car 1
  • transitive verb pack carry or wear 1
  • intransitive verb pack fill with people 1
  • verb pack When you pack a bag, you put clothes and other things into it, because you are leaving a place or going on holiday. 0
  • verb pack When people pack things, for example in a factory, they put them into containers or parcels so that they can be transported and sold. 0
  • verb pack If people or things pack into a place or if they pack a place, there are so many of them that the place is full. 0
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