(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
(4) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
(5) Glucose, osmotic pressure, packed cell volume, PFC by combustion and volatilization were also measured in blood samples.
(6) These levels are sufficient to maintain normal in vivo rates of mRNA and rRNA synthesis, but the average density of packing of polymerases on DNA is considerably less than the maximum density predicted by Miller and Bakken (1972), suggesting that initiation of polymerases of DNA is a limiting factor in the control of transcription.
(7) The crystallographic parameters of four different unit cells, all of which are based on hexagonal packing arrangements, indicate that the fundamental unit of the complex is composed of six gene 5 protein dimers.
(8) In 67 patinets with abnormal mammograms, breast angiography was performed using a "lo-dose vaccum packed film screen system".
(9) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
(10) The majority of intensively stained and densely packed cells have been observed in tv nucleus.
(11) The wall of the yolk sac thickens as a result of this infolding and the densely packed capillaries.
(12) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
(13) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
(14) Changes in the determinants of blood viscosity (packed cell volume, plasma viscosity, red cell aggregation, and red cell deformability) were studied on day 1 and day 5.
(15) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(16) In terms of segmental motion and anisotropy of packing the lipoprotein-X bilayer closely resembles a model bilayer system consisting of phosphatidylcholine, lysophosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin and cholesterol mixed in the same molar ratio as in lipoprotein-X.
(17) There is little doubt that when it opens next Thursday, One New Change will be jam-packed with City workers and tourists.
(18) Treatment with chloroquine and primaquine, together with packed red cell transfusions, was successful in eliminating both the malaria parasites and the leukaemoid blood picture.
(19) The authors consider that this device increases safety during this potentially hazardous procedure by eliminating the flammable polyvinyl chloride endotracheal tube and cottonoid packings most frequently used during this procedure.
(20) The media, smelling blood, has fallen into pack formation.
Repack
Definition:
(v. t.) To pack a second time or anew; as, to repack beef; to repack a trunk.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chromatin melting temperature has been shown to decrease with Ca2+ concentration and in the region of 65-67 degrees C a heatless transition due to chromatin repacking in a more compact form occurred.
(2) Groups of atoms that are most significantly displaced are not shifted in large rigid units but are repacked into new and distinct conformations.
(3) In most patients, effective treatment was to repack the nose and cauterize a bleeding site, or to suture an open area either in the incision or at the columella-septum junction.
(4) He too had been working for Goodman back then, running what was known as the "A Team", a sort of flying squad Goodman used to repack and relabel meat when necessary, often at night.
(5) Online shoppers pay a small deposit for the RePack shipping option, and get reimbursed after the bag or box finds its way back to the company via any post office in Europe.
(6) Active repacking of epithelial cells appears to drive a number of morphogenetic processes.
(7) Packs were removed from the 16 survivors at laparotomy at a mean of 3.1 days after insertion; six patients rebled during pack extraction and were successfully repacked.
(8) We therefore conclude: 1) packing is more effective if instituted early (when less than 15 units of blood have been transfused) and is not contraindicated before either repair of retrohepatic vena cava injury, hepatic vein injury, or both; 2) selective hepatic artery ligation should be avoided if packing alone stops bleeding; 3) abdominal closure with a synthetic mesh decreases the incidence of wound infection; and 4) patients should be returned to the operating room for repacking if 24-hour postoperative blood requirements exceed 10 units.
(9) This rotation seems to be triggered primarily by the loss of a hydrogen bond between Asn 132 and Ser 117 and is associated with the repacking of several side chains at the interface between alpha-helix 126-134 and the adjacent alpha-helix 115-122.
(10) Shipments of suspicious poultry meat from Asia led to raids on a cold store in Northern Ireland where a large supply of forged health marks purporting to come from a variety of meat plants across the EU were found that were the tools of a repacking and relabelling scam in which petfood was recycled as fit for human consumption.
(11) Meanwhile, RePack , a Finland-based startup launched in 2011, creates reusable packaging options out of recycled materials.
(12) Yet Coltrane, searching for another voice by the time the quartet had astonished the jazz world for six years, and pursuing a dream of a music that could be both freer and simpler, came to need a drummer who thought even more texturally than Jones, and carried less tempo-based baggage, however audaciously repacked.
(13) Repacking often resulted in increases in inter-atomic distances between side chains and loss of some van der Waals' contacts.
(14) The UK FSA set up a food fraud taskforce following a major investigation in to repacking and relabelling of meat in a large wholesale cold store in Northern Ireland in 2005.
(15) Several goals of protein engineering may be achieved through redesign and repacking of protein interiors.
(16) The observed partition behaviour therefore suggests that the echinocytic cells acquire a higher affinity for the upper phase by repacking the lipid bilayer or at least the outer leaflet into a less efficient packed and thus more fluid structure.
(17) The BMA also accused ministers of not providing additional funding to pay for the seven-day NHS they want to create by 2020 and of repacking monies it has announced for technology, mental health and GP services to give the impression that it is additional to the £10bn.
(18) The magnitude of the observed changes in helical symmetry appears to be limited to that which can occur without repacking of the interfaces between the alpha-helices making up the viral protein coat.
(19) The secondary phase in which the archenteron elongates across the blastocoel is probably driven primarily by active cell repacking.
(20) The x-ray coordinates were used to evaluate the repacking of side chains in the protein interior and to attempt to evaluate the contributions of the different energetic interactions toward the overall stability of each variant.