What's the difference between luggage and package?

Luggage


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This morning he has mundane tasks to attend to – the logistics of players’ luggage for Basel – but the man they call Monchi is the sporting director and the architect who transformed the club.
  • (2) People were carrying luggage and fathers carried young children on their shoulders.
  • (3) But she said on Wednesday that privacy issues prevented her from naming the passenger, who was escorted off the plane along with his two travelling companions and their luggage.
  • (4) But they don’t keep it secret: it is printed on every piece of luggage.
  • (5) Passengers have been flying from Gatwick without their luggage after a breakdown in the airport’s baggage system delayed check-ins and caused chaos in terminals.
  • (6) The brand's luggage was supersized, with large holdalls carried by some models.
  • (7) An Australian couple were unwittingly conned into becoming multi-million dollar drug mules after winning a dream trip to Canada with new luggage thrown in.
  • (8) In Knox's case, she was supposed to have gone to work at a bar, and Sollecito was supposed to have gone to a train station to pick up a friend's luggage.
  • (9) I would like him to acknowledge in front of the court that he realises what it means that he was even in Auschwitz in the first place, let alone that he probably took the luggage from some of the 49 members of my family who were murdered there,” said 90-year-old Eva Fahidi from Budapest who was sent to Auschwitz as a teenager, and last saw her mother and 11-year-old sister on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  • (10) Baggage handling systems were also affected: some passengers who did manage to get on the small number of flights to take off from the UK reported reaching their destinations without their luggage.
  • (11) On July 1, a former U.S. defense attache, David McNevin, was caught at Nairobi airport with illegal ivory in his luggage.
  • (12) Updated at 2.13pm BST 7.47pm BST Luggages at the crash site of MH17.
  • (13) Airlines are only obliged to pay passengers a maximum of around £1,200 when their luggage is lost or damaged.
  • (14) A woman at the United Airlines counter at Beijing airport told Reuters that Chen's luggage was checked in for the flight to Newark, New Jersey, and he was later seen on the flight by reporters.
  • (15) When boarding the train we found that the space was occupied by people and luggage, luckily they moved without too many dirty looks.
  • (16) "The train suddenly shook violently, casting luggage all around," Xinhua quoted survivor Liu Hongtao as saying.
  • (17) Other luggage would probably provide some insulation in the event of a fire in the baggage bins, and many people already check their laptops, but radically increasing the number of batteries in various states of repair in the inaccessible cargo area inevitably increases risk.
  • (18) A Downing Street spokeswoman did not deny that there had been concern about screening of luggage 10 months ago but refused to elaborate on what exactly the UK had requested in terms of improvements.
  • (19) The evacuation of British tourists was allowed to proceed after Downing Street said there had been an agreement with the Egyptian authorities on a “package of additional security measures”, including empty holds, extra screening on passengers, and checks on their hand luggage.
  • (20) Anthony Kwan Hok-chun, who works for the Hong Kong-based Initium media group, was held briefly on 23 August after trying to leave from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport with a flak jacket and helmet in his hand luggage.

Package


Definition:

  • (n.) Act or process of packing.
  • (n.) A bundle made up for transportation; a packet; a bale; a parcel; as, a package of goods.
  • (n.) A charge made for packing goods.
  • (n.) A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
  • (2) In contrast to the defect in another packaging-deficient mutant ts1201, the block in the formation of dense-cored, DNA-containing capsids in ts1233-infected cells at the NPT could not be reversed by transferring the cells to the permissive temperature in the presence of a protein synthesis inhibitor.
  • (3) A teaching package is described for teaching interview skills to large blocks of medical students whilst on their psychiatric attachment.
  • (4) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
  • (5) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
  • (6) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
  • (7) The agreement, hailed as a "landmark" deal and a breakthrough by politicians and the green lobby alike, came before a crucial EU summit opening in Brussels tomorrow at which 27 prime ministers and presidents are supposed to finalise an ambitious package to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020.
  • (8) Finally, from the published manuals, the common components of these diverse, multi-component treatment packages of different family-intervention studies are identified."
  • (9) Temperature, relative humidity, and air movement around the package can influence the permeability of the film.
  • (10) Its Google Preferred initiative, launched in October 2014, packages up its most popular channels into more appealing media buys for big brands.
  • (11) The LMM-GBPs specifically associated with LB may participate in intracellular events required for surfactant packaging and secretion.
  • (12) Another feature of TWINAN90 is the optional output of a pedigree file which can be read by the quantitative genetics package FISHER.
  • (13) Faulkner said: "Tobacco packaging is the last way in which the tobacco industry can advertise and market its lethal products; we have now stopped all conventional advertising and the retail display ban will come into in full effect in 2015.
  • (14) The budget red book contained a chart which suggested that the rich were indeed facing a bigger hit than anyone else, and Liberal Democrats were today pointing to this to justify the austerity package.
  • (15) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
  • (16) Nick Clegg, who chairs the cabinet's home affairs committee, is said to have backed May's proposed package.
  • (17) New offensive coach Tony Sparano was also a fan of Wildcat packages when he was head coach in Miami.
  • (18) A computer-programmed osteotomy package was used to measure agreed values from lateral cephalograms preoperatively, postoperatively, and during the follow-up period.
  • (19) By contrast, a Guardian Australia video of Labor's transport spokesman, Anthony Albanese, using a whiteboard to denounce the government's package received more than 60,000 hits.
  • (20) Five hundred fifteen senior baccalaureate nursing students randomly responded to one of two packages of 18 one-item pharmacology achievement tests.