Pack

Definition:

  • (n.) A pact.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
  • (n.) A number or quantity of connected or similar things
  • (n.) A full set of playing cards; also, the assortment used in a particular game; as, a euchre pack.
  • (n.) A number of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
  • (n.) A number of persons associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang; as, a pack of thieves or knaves.
  • (n.) A shook of cask staves.
  • (n.) A bundle of sheet-iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
  • (n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
  • (n.) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
  • (n.) A loose, lewd, or worthless person. See Baggage.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To sort and arrange (the cards) in a pack so as to secure the game unfairly.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
  • (n.) To load with a pack; hence, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (i. e., on the backs of men or beasts).
  • (n.) To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To gather in flocks or schools; as, the grouse or the perch begin to pack.
  • (v. i.) To depart in haste; -- generally with off or away.
  • (v. i.) To unite in bad measures; to confederate for ill purposes; to join in collusion.

Compare pack with other words:

pack vs. pick

pack vs. paco

pack vs. sack

cack vs. pack

pack vs. pact

pack vs. plack

pack vs. pock

paca vs. pack

pack vs. pacu

pack vs. peck

pack vs. puck

pack vs. rack

pack vs. pawk

lack vs. pack

pace vs. pack

mack vs. pack

kit vs. pack

pack vs. tack

hack vs. pack

jack vs. pack

categorise vs. pack

pack vs. parcel

pack vs. storage

pack vs. shoal

host vs. pack

case vs. pack

pack vs. packhouse

gobbing vs. pack

litter vs. pack

goa vs. pack

disastrous vs. pack

pack vs. similar

catty vs. pack

pack vs. put

fake vs. pack

pack vs. tomcat

pack vs. wrap

pack vs. refill

group vs. pack

course vs. pack

band vs. pack

going vs. pack

log vs. pack

back vs. pack

pack vs. repack

embale vs. pack

pack vs. sumpter

pack vs. piece

pack vs. packed

gang vs. pack

pack vs. packing

oakum vs. pack

pack vs. ruck

pack vs. packet

pack vs. park

bunch vs. pack

pack vs. packer

deck vs. pack

forward vs. pack

pack vs. unpack

pack vs. stack

pack vs. stowage

pack vs. stow

pack vs. peremptorily

contrive vs. pack

encumber vs. pack

arrange vs. pack

pack vs. team

daypack vs. pack

ice vs. pack

pack vs. red

float vs. pack

pack vs. roll

pack vs. stave

cask vs. pack

collective vs. pack

burden vs. pack

contents vs. pack

multitude vs. pack

bale vs. pack

load vs. pack

bundle vs. pack

pack vs. package

develop vs. pack

compress vs. pack

box vs. pack

gregarious vs. pack

pack vs. shook

cut vs. pack

pack vs. tamp

crew vs. pack

collect vs. pack

mast vs. pack

computer vs. pack

amass vs. pack